Re: Fw: Re: [asa] A Global warming skeptic to speak

Shalom
George
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Preston Garrison" <pngarrison@att.net>
To: "Christine Smith" <christine_mb_smith@yahoo.com>; "ASA list"
<asa@calvin.edu>
Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 2:17 PM
Subject: Re: Fw: Re: [asa] A Global warming skeptic to speak

>> > This is why whenever I speak to the issue in a public forum
>>> (such as this one), as much as I affirm the climate change
>>> science and the urgency with which I think the issue needs
>>> to be dealt with, I take care in the same breath to
>>> categorically denounce any hint that we should lose hope or
>>> faith over the issue, or that somehow other issues such as
>>> the economy or health care should be diminished. There must
>> > be a proper balance between our calling as creation
>> > stewards, as urgent as that calling may be, and our
>>> Christian hope and calling in other arenas.
>>>
>>> In Christ,
>>> Christine (ASA member)
>>>
>>> "For we walk by faith, not by sight" ~II
>> > Corinthians 5:7
>>>
>
> I think it was Jonathan Edwards who remarked that humanity was like a
> drunk who is always falling off the horse on one side and then getting
> back on and falling off the other side.

This metaphor is due to Luther, but of course Edwards might have used it
(with or without knowing its origin) also.

Shalom,
George

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Received on Fri Jan 16 14:32:47 2009