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Is God Green? Some Religious Leaders Claim He's Against Burning Coal
National Review ^ | 08/01/2014 | Ian Tuttle

Posted on 08/01/2014 5:54:41 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: afsnco
You forgot the "Accept oil and Coal" part of the Bible that's yet to be
entered into it by our Government.

Anybody holding previous versions are subject to arrest and immediate execution.
Including all dogs found near the violator.

21 posted on 08/01/2014 6:36:01 AM PDT by MaxMax (Pay Attention and you'll be pissed off too! FIRE BOEHNER, NOW!)
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To: Politicalkiddo
We have children dying, people starving, churches burning, and a whole other set of problems, and we’re going to waste time speculating if a little black rock is sinful to utilize? Ridiculous. People’s souls are in danger. We haven’t time to be PC and admonish people about something so stupid. Churches need to attend to church business, which includes relieving suffering and saving souls. I don’t know how God feels about coal burning, but I do know that he gave us specific tasks to accomplish. Why not complete the tasks he set for us before arguing about ones he didn’t set for us?

I guess that all means that the world is, as usual, status quo.

22 posted on 08/01/2014 6:43:44 AM PDT by cloudmountain
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To: SeekAndFind

Most absurd thing I have ever heard. What a bunch of idiots.

This is why I no longer attend church. I am still faithful but I refuse to attend church.

Here is a little truth for them — low cost energy has made this country what it is today. It has allowed the starving to eat and the cold to be warm. To them I say — STFU.


23 posted on 08/01/2014 7:07:24 AM PDT by dhs12345
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To: dhs12345

You aren’t the only one who understands that organized religion has become a tool of government these days.


24 posted on 08/01/2014 7:14:25 AM PDT by B4Ranch (Name your illness, do a Google & YouTube search with "hydrogen peroxide". Do it and be surprised.)
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To: afsnco

They don’t attribute authority to God’s Word and prefer their own definitions of right and wrong...

Kinda like the serpent promised in Gen 3:4-5.


25 posted on 08/01/2014 7:16:21 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: B4Ranch

Exactly. And evil to boot. A bit of irony.


26 posted on 08/01/2014 7:17:14 AM PDT by dhs12345
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To: SeekAndFind
“To me this means that to be wasteful of the land’s bounty or to despoil it with substances that are harmful to people or other life forms is not just unproductive but is an affront to God,” his exegesis went. “In my view, the EPA has identified one of those areas where we humans have ignored our role as good stewards of the Creation.”

But, but, God gave us so much of it.

I seem to recall that one of the blessings of God was that they would be digging iron and copper from their hills.

27 posted on 08/01/2014 7:35:45 AM PDT by Lee N. Field ("And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to promise" Gal 3:29)
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To: SeekAndFind
or to despoil it with substances that are harmful to people or other life forms is not just unproductive but is an affront to God

Rare bird last seen in Britain 22 years ago reappears - only to be killed by wind turbine in front of a horrified crowd of birdwatchers

28 posted on 08/01/2014 7:52:38 AM PDT by HarleyD ("... letters are weighty, but his .. presence is weak, and his speech of no account.")
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To: Tennessee Nana

Actually there were four that were burned.


29 posted on 08/01/2014 7:55:28 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Sometimes you need more than seven rounds, Much more.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Hmmm...given that God can send people to a place that needs to be constantly stoked, I’m not sure if I’m buying this.


30 posted on 08/01/2014 7:57:52 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard Lives Yet!)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

I’m sure if it’s still around, the EPA will try to “fine” God when He pours out His wrath in the End Times. He’ll do a lot of burning and general destruction, eventually including all plant life and sea life. He’ll eventually destroy everything and create a new heaven and a new earth, so their view of a “green” Almighty God that conforms to their pagan ideas is laughable.

This universe is a temporary place, and God can do with His creation as He wishes. He owns everybody and everything.


31 posted on 08/01/2014 8:03:38 AM PDT by afsnco
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To: SeekAndFind

God presence was a column of smoke by day, fire by night, presented Himself to Moses as a burning bush, consumed Elijah’s sacrifice with fire from Heaven, used chariots of fire and will create a new Earth after destroying this one with fire. Then there is the eternal lake of fire... so to answer an environmentalist question whether God is against coal, I’ll have to check the context. Is it used to burn aborted fetuses or Jews in ovens? Or to produce electricity used in a soul winning, Bible preaching church?


32 posted on 08/01/2014 8:31:35 AM PDT by DocRock (All they that TAKE the sword shall perish with the sword. Matthew 26:52 Gun grabbers beware.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I think God is pretty much against the burning of children, a holocaust to an entity.

*You know, like incinerating aborted infants in utero.

Coal, not so much.


33 posted on 08/01/2014 8:42:44 AM PDT by OpusatFR
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To: cripplecreek

Nah.

This appears to be from the PC(USA). They are dying out. In a couple years they will just be an unpleasant memory.


34 posted on 08/01/2014 8:44:29 AM PDT by Gamecock (There is room for all of God's animals. Right next to the mashed potatoes and gravy.)
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To: B4Ranch

That’s what we have His Word for - to compare what religious leaders say with what God says.


35 posted on 08/01/2014 8:45:58 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Gamecock

Oh I don’t know about dying out. Looks like many “Christian” groups are making a killing soaking up taxpayer dollars for aiding the alien invasion of America.


36 posted on 08/01/2014 8:48:18 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Then why did He give us coal, oil and gas?


37 posted on 08/01/2014 9:05:37 AM PDT by 353FMG
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To: 353FMG

RE: Then why did He give us coal, oil and gas?

To tide us over till the Solyndras of the world can develop efficient solar panels /s


38 posted on 08/01/2014 9:37:05 AM PDT by SeekAndFind (If at first you don't succeed, put it out for beta test.)
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To: 353FMG

A better question is why did God demand sacrifices burned on the altar of the temple and before that, the tabernacle? For God to be “green”, He’s sure asking His people to leave a big carbon footprint.

That’s to say nothing of the burning of incense or the lamps that lit the tabernacle and temple, lamps He commanded to be built.

It’s amazing that libs choose some obscure passage to obey, but totally ignore the Ten Commandments. Of course, I guess I shouldn’t be surprised since those fly in the face of their agenda.


39 posted on 08/01/2014 10:04:06 AM PDT by the lone haranguer (All civilized men love peace, but all truly civilized men must despise pacifism.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The religious left p**ses me off.


40 posted on 08/01/2014 11:44:29 PM PDT by Impy (Think for yourself)
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