It Is Cold Outside
It is the day before Thanksgiving. I woke up this morning, and I looked out my window and I saw a dusting of snow on my sidewalk. It is cold out today. According to yahoo weather, the high temperature for today in to be 34 degrees. Tomorrow is to be colder than today. Overnight, we are to have a few snow showers which may bring an accumulation. According to the national weather service, the average high temperature for this time of year is 48 degrees. Our extended forecast predicts it to stay much colder than 48 degrees for the entire week. It sure is cold outside.
Last winter was one of the coldest and snowiest winters I have ever faced. Around Christmas time last year, I woke up and found 27 inches of snow on the ground. I have never seen that much snow at one time. My wife was 3 days overdue with our second child. I began to dig out. It took me all day. It was about the third hour of digging that I decided that I would buy a snow blower. A snow blower now sits in my garage waiting to be used once again this winter. It sure is cold outside.
When I was in eighth grade, I had a science assignment. I was to do a report on the weather. I am currently 34 years old. Eighth grade would have been 20 years ago this year. I read an article in Time magazine that caught my attention. It led me to other articles in other magazines. The title of my research report was "Global Cooling". 20 years ago, the scientific community was convinced that greenhouse gases would block out the suns heat and create a global drop in temperature. Being young and impressionable, I was convinced that the scientific community had to be right. We were headed for another ice age. If we did not stop polluting our air, we would all freeze to death and die.
Fast forward 20 years. We now are told that we have global warming. I am now not so young and not as impressionable. How could the same scientific community be so wrong 20 years ago? All I know is that it sure is cold outside. Today I think those scientists of 20 years ago may have been right.
I am always amazed that so many people in the church get all worked up over things like this. When I was in college, the scientific community decided to switch from scaring us with global cooling to scaring up with global warming. No one questioned this, because after all, they are scientists. We all know that scientists cannot be wrong. While I was at college, many of my Christian friends bought; hook, line, and sinker, the message of global warming. They demanded that we be good stewards of the Earth, or God was going to cook us all.
I am sure that you have figured out by now that I do not hold to a global warming theory. I will not deny that the overall Earth temperature has warmed. I am just not willing to blame us for the cause of it. I have two reasons why I do not hold to a global warming theory. The second reason I will deal with in the next paragraph. The first reason I will now summarize after writing about it already in this post. Scientists are often wrong. Theories change all the time. Many scientists have a need to keep themselves in the news by creating new things to be afraid of. Listen folks, the same people who cannot tell us accurately what the weather will be like on Friday, are now trying to tell us what the weather will be like 100 years from now. Twenty years ago it was global cooling. Today it is global warming. I wonder if twenty years from now it will be something else.
The second reason that I do not believe in global warming is Scriptual. I happen to believe that God is in control of this world. I know this is shocking, but nothing happens without God's permission. I believe it is awful arrogant for us to think that we are controlling the weather. Did not God stop the rain for three years when Ahab was King? Did not God keep the sun from setting during a war? Did not the Earth shake and the sky turn dark at the death of the Savior? Was there not a flood? So let us answer the question, Who is in control of the weather?
If God is not in control, then how foolish we are to pray for rain. We should never ask God to keep us safe in the storm. Simply put, global warming, as it is taught now, is a smack in the face of the sovereignty of God.
All I know, is that it sure is cold outside. Living in Northern Ohio makes me wish that I could trust the scientific community on global warming. However, today I am convinced that those same scientists were right twenty years ago. I think I will go start a fire to warm me up. Maybe if I burn enough fuel I can cause the Ozone layer to thicken and warm the whole world up a degree or two. Maybe I can convince everyone in the Cleveland area to recklessly release Freon gas into the air. I am needing a little global warming right now. It sure is cold outside.
Last winter was one of the coldest and snowiest winters I have ever faced. Around Christmas time last year, I woke up and found 27 inches of snow on the ground. I have never seen that much snow at one time. My wife was 3 days overdue with our second child. I began to dig out. It took me all day. It was about the third hour of digging that I decided that I would buy a snow blower. A snow blower now sits in my garage waiting to be used once again this winter. It sure is cold outside.
When I was in eighth grade, I had a science assignment. I was to do a report on the weather. I am currently 34 years old. Eighth grade would have been 20 years ago this year. I read an article in Time magazine that caught my attention. It led me to other articles in other magazines. The title of my research report was "Global Cooling". 20 years ago, the scientific community was convinced that greenhouse gases would block out the suns heat and create a global drop in temperature. Being young and impressionable, I was convinced that the scientific community had to be right. We were headed for another ice age. If we did not stop polluting our air, we would all freeze to death and die.
Fast forward 20 years. We now are told that we have global warming. I am now not so young and not as impressionable. How could the same scientific community be so wrong 20 years ago? All I know is that it sure is cold outside. Today I think those scientists of 20 years ago may have been right.
I am always amazed that so many people in the church get all worked up over things like this. When I was in college, the scientific community decided to switch from scaring us with global cooling to scaring up with global warming. No one questioned this, because after all, they are scientists. We all know that scientists cannot be wrong. While I was at college, many of my Christian friends bought; hook, line, and sinker, the message of global warming. They demanded that we be good stewards of the Earth, or God was going to cook us all.
I am sure that you have figured out by now that I do not hold to a global warming theory. I will not deny that the overall Earth temperature has warmed. I am just not willing to blame us for the cause of it. I have two reasons why I do not hold to a global warming theory. The second reason I will deal with in the next paragraph. The first reason I will now summarize after writing about it already in this post. Scientists are often wrong. Theories change all the time. Many scientists have a need to keep themselves in the news by creating new things to be afraid of. Listen folks, the same people who cannot tell us accurately what the weather will be like on Friday, are now trying to tell us what the weather will be like 100 years from now. Twenty years ago it was global cooling. Today it is global warming. I wonder if twenty years from now it will be something else.
The second reason that I do not believe in global warming is Scriptual. I happen to believe that God is in control of this world. I know this is shocking, but nothing happens without God's permission. I believe it is awful arrogant for us to think that we are controlling the weather. Did not God stop the rain for three years when Ahab was King? Did not God keep the sun from setting during a war? Did not the Earth shake and the sky turn dark at the death of the Savior? Was there not a flood? So let us answer the question, Who is in control of the weather?
If God is not in control, then how foolish we are to pray for rain. We should never ask God to keep us safe in the storm. Simply put, global warming, as it is taught now, is a smack in the face of the sovereignty of God.
All I know, is that it sure is cold outside. Living in Northern Ohio makes me wish that I could trust the scientific community on global warming. However, today I am convinced that those same scientists were right twenty years ago. I think I will go start a fire to warm me up. Maybe if I burn enough fuel I can cause the Ozone layer to thicken and warm the whole world up a degree or two. Maybe I can convince everyone in the Cleveland area to recklessly release Freon gas into the air. I am needing a little global warming right now. It sure is cold outside.
posted by Foundes Community Church @ 7:04 AM
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