Global warming; or “Climate Change,” is currently a global debate which has much legislation being RUSHED through congress, yet no real conversation about the unexplained, tangible implications it creates.
The implications are at first seemingly unrelated, but it is completely related to one big question.
The existence of God.
To say it simply, if you believe global warming is a very real threat, you do not TRULY believe in the existence of God, and if you are Christian who struggles with the fear of global warming, you do not believe that God has provided plans and a way for the restoration of this stunning planet we live in.
Yet, one may still try to believe in the idea of the existence of God, and that He provided us this planet, to take care of it, and die, and build your own theology based on a God that lives far off, leaving us to the injustices of men, and to live life full of pain, agony, injustice, sorrow, moments of joy, and eventually death. That kind of God does not seem to be the kind of God we are ALL, deep down inside yearning to know, or some are wanting NOTHING to do with. That kind of God, is not the kind of God that would bother creating humanity. We are not His scientific experiment, because if He is God, he would not need to create us, to see us fall as we have fallen time and time again.
So global warming, on the grand scale, is the fear of death, without the fear of God.
The central clash in the middle of this blurry argument is theism vs. atheism. Most will disagree with me that global warming is an atheist reality, but it is nothing short of it.
I understand the desire to be better stewards of our planet, as we should, for good sterwardship is wise, noble, and good… but the legislation being pushed through congress is NOT for the better of the planet, but for more control, and the ever so recurring theme in the history of man, of man STRIVING to bring justice and balance to a fallen world, without God.
You remind me of the joke about the pious man whose house was threatened by a flood. Ordered to evacuate and offered a ride on an emergency truck, he refused, saying “I’ve always trusted God, he’ll preserve me and mine.” As the waters rise, a boat floats by and offers him escape but he still protests “God will deliver his servant!” When the water forces him onto the rooftop a helicopter passes by and offers to rescue him, but he still refused, proclaiming his unwavering faith.
With the water reaching the top of the roof, he cries unto the Lord, “Almighty Father, why didn’t you help your ever-faithful servant?” A voice booms from heaven, “I sent you a truck, a boat, and a helicopter!”
God helps those who help themselves. As for your ludicrous belief that those who want to prevent global warming lack sufficient faith — only God decides that, not you. Get over the belief that you understand God better than anybody else.
Haha, I’ve heard that joke before.
The joke doesn’t really apply here because I made it clear that the fear of death is the driving force of the threat of global warming.
If I am truly being pious like the man in the joke, I gladly receive your honest rebuke to heart in a good way, but I do not feel I’ll be screaming out for my safety, because I honestly can say if I were in that man’s place, I would be more excited that I would be seeing God soon, rather than fearful dying in the storm. I don’t mean that in a self-righteous way, but I say it in a way I truly would try to embrace where God has me, rather than fear for my life, which is only a moment anyways.
While I do think that its POSSIBLE there is climate change due our wasteful use of resources, (with a messy infrastructure that enables more pollution and wasteful spending in all dynamics of our society); I think that we are only able to destroy what we create, and not what God creates.
I think God may teach humanity lessons on excellence, discipline, and wisdom through what seems to be climate change, and let us touch a hot pan, and feel the burn globally. Yet, truly, our “recorded history” with all its statistics do not prove beyond a reasonable doubt that we can actually destroy the planet, or save it. I also doubt that God would actually stand back and allow deception to kill off His brilliant creation in vain.
I lived in southern California for most of my life, near a mountain called Saddleback Mountain (also known as Santiago Peak). This mountain, had a much lower altitude in which it was receiving snow yearly, even though most of the area was originally a desert before it was inhabited. As the population grew, the homes and cars, and all that entails, I noticed that the mountain did slowly lose its usual level of snow overtime. Eventually this mountain did not have snow for a few years, and it occasionally would get a little bit, but nothing compared to what it once was when I was a little kid, when the area was not a gigantic suburb. With this tangible evidence, I could say that we may have warmed up the area, and heated up the atmosphere a couple thousand feet. Yet suddenly, one year, El Nino swept through, in which we had record snow on all the mountains in the area.
The truth is NOBODY knows for sure that the earth has been on a steady increase because of carbon emissions.
You could nuke the rainforest, and in time, it would grow itself back.
This is where I say that God is sovereign, and that we cannot destroy His planet, but we can burn our hands, even lose lives to heat waves, IF and only in FACT, we are causing the climate change.