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

It is more likely to be Luther as I think his wife Katie brewed their own
ale:)

If wrong I will soon be corrected:)

Michael
----- Original Message -----
From: "George Murphy" <GMURPHY10@neo.rr.com>
To: "Christine Smith" <christine_mb_smith@yahoo.com>; "ASA list"
<asa@calvin.edu>; "Preston Garrison" <pngarrison@att.net>
Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 7:32 PM
Subject: Re: Fw: Re: [asa] A Global warming skeptic to speak

>
> Shalom
> George
> http://home.neo.rr.com/scitheologyglm
> ----- 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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