Jesus did not have a physical defect

Some people claim that Jesus had a physical defect. This opinion is based on Isaiah 53

1 Who has believed what he has heard from us?
And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?
2 For he grew up before him like a young plant,
and like a root out of dry ground;
he had no form or majesty that we should look at him,
and no beauty that we should desire him.
3 He was despised and rejected by men;
a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief;
and as one from whom men hide their faces
he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

BUT, this is regarding Jesus as the Suffering Servant. This is talking about his death and atonement.

As our High Priest, Jesus would have met the Law when it states "None of your offspring throughout their generations who has a blemish may approach to offer the bread of his God. For no one who has a blemish shall draw near, a man blind or lame, or one who has a mutilated face or a limb too long." (Leviticus 21:17-18)

The VISUAL holiness of the High Priest symbolized the spiritual holiness required of us. Jesus was without outward (physical) blemish or inward (spiritual) blemish.

Loving our neighbor Leviticus 19:15, 18

Oh, that our court system, our taxation system, and our daily lives could follow this:
"You shall do no injustice in court. You shall not be partial to the poor or defer to the great, but in righteousness shall you judge your neighbor." (Lev 19:15)


"you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the LORD." (Lev 19:18b)

Salvation by ...

In the institution of the Levitical Law, its easy to see why a non-faithful person could read it as "salvation by works"

God said "You shall therefore keep my statutes and my rules; if a person does them, he shall live by them: I am the LORD." (Leviticus 18:5)

But King David helps to see behind the law: "You do not delight in sacrifice, or I would bring it; you do not take pleasure in burnt offerings. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise." (Psalm 51:16-17)

"but the righteous shall live by his faith" (Habakkuk 2:4b)

The obedience of the law SHOULD stem from the broken and contrite heart. IF the broken spirit is the source of the obedience, then the person is righteous.

"For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin. But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it — the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction: for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God" (Romans 3:20-22)

"[that I may gain Christ] and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith" (Philippians 3:9)

The blood of Christ

I was part of a prayer ministry with some wonderful people. Several people "claimed the blood" over several prayer concerns. That "claiming" sounded to me like an incantation - as if the blood had special properties that could be called on.

"Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins." (Hebrews 9:22)

In the establishment of the Day of Atonement, God explains the importance of blood: "For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it for you on the altar to make atonement for your souls, for it is the blood that makes atonement by the life." (Leviticus 17:11))

If Jesus had just pricked his finger, THAT would not have atoned for my sins.
Jesus had to give his life.

The Day of Atonement

I'm a bit behind in my reading through the Bible this year.
I'm in Deuteronomy and reviewing some thoughts from Leviticus.

There is a progression in "atonement” enactments:

1. one animal for one person - Adam and Eve in the Garden
2. one lamb for one family - the Passover lamb
3. one sacrifice for the nation - “the day of atonement”
4. one sacrifice for the entire world - Jesus Christ - "the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!” (John 1:29)
   

The first three are "enactments" because true atonement is SOLELY based upon the work of Christ. The prior three point forward to Jesus' crucifixion.

On the Day of Atonement, two male goats are presented as offerings.

1. One is sacrificed as a sin offering, pointing to Christ's death paying the penalty for our sins.
2. The second goat is called the scapegoat. The High Priest would lay his hand on the goat, to symbolize our sins being transferred, and the goat was led into the wilderness. "As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us." (Psalm 103:12)

You might be a DISPENSATIONALIST if...

You might be a DISPENSATIONALIST if...

1. You think other Christians are anti-Semitic
2. You’ve never read Hebrews
3. You can justify being 2000 years late for an appointment
4. You’re really bad at math
5. When the going gets rough, you’re nowhere to be found
6. You sleep nude so your post-rapture bed is tidy
7. You were born after 1830
8. You use your newspaper for morning devotions
9. You’d rather have been outside Noah’s ark
10. You don't think Satan really noticed the cross
11. You prefer the shadows
12. Always always means always except sometimes
13. You went to Dallas Theological Seminary
14. You prefer the shadows
15. Always always means always except sometimes
16. You went to Dallas Theological Seminary
17. Bad news excites you
18. You feel Scofield's notes were inspired
19. You’ll only be a 2nd class citizen of paradise
20. You think THIS means THAT
21. You think NEAR means FAR
22. You thought about naming your kid Darby
23. You decided it’s too late to have kids
24. You believe the Day of Pentecost refers to the birthday of Dwight Pentecost
25. Your Pastoral Search committee only looks at candidates from DTS (Dallas Theological Seminary)
26. You consider your children to be an "intercalation" in your marriage
27. When people tell you Lewis is their favorite Christian author, you think of "Lewis Sperry Chaffer," not "C.S. Lewis"
28. No matter how many member states the EU adds, you "know" it's the revived Roman Empire with 10 heads
29. You own the entire "Left Behind" series
30. You get your news from Jack Van Impe
31. You’re offended by this list
32. When someone asks for your opinion on Bible versions and you think of
    The John MacArthur Study Bible
    The Ryrie Study Bible
    The Scofield Study Bible
    and not
    The ESV - English Standard Version
    The NIV - New International Version
    The KJV - King James Version
    

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Atonement

In Leviticus chapter 9, Aaron offers a sin offering, a burnt offering (verse 3), a peace offering and a grain offering (verse 4) to the Lord. The rites had been given to Moses and Aaron and they followed the prescription. The culmination of the service is in verses 23 and 24:

Moses and Aaron then went into the Tent of Meeting. When they came out, they blessed the people; and the glory of the LORD appeared to all the people. Fire came out from the presence of the LORD and consumed the burnt offering and the fat portions on the altar. And when all the people saw it, they shouted for joy and fell facedown.

Chapter 10 begins with the account of Nadab and Abihu (Aaron's sons) offering unauthorized fire before the Lord:

Aaron's sons Nadab and Abihu took their censers, put fire in them and added incense; and they offered unauthorized fire before the LORD, contrary to his command. So fire came out from the presence of the LORD and consumed them, and they died before the LORD. Moses then said to Aaron, "This is what the LORD spoke of when he said: "'Among those who approach me I will show myself holy; in the sight of all the people I will be honored.'" Aaron remained silent.

The animals died because of the people's sin (ch 9). God's glory shown and fire consumed the animals. Then Nadab and Abihu die for their sin and fire consumed them (ch 10).

Do you WANT a substitute for your sins?
Or do you want to approach the Lord "as you please" but without a substitute?

God offers the substitute of Jesus Christ.
Why, oh why, would you profane Christ and not cling to him as your hope?

I heard it said that
"Hell is eternity in the presence of God"
"Heaven is eternity in the presence of God with a mediator "(Jesus)

Restitution, plus

Leviticus 6:1-5 says:

The LORD said to Moses: "If anyone sins and is unfaithful to the LORD by deceiving his neighbor about something entrusted to him or left in his care or stolen, or if he cheats him, or if he finds lost property and lies about it, or if he swears falsely, or if he commits any such sin that people may do-- when he thus sins and becomes guilty, he must return what he has stolen or taken by extortion, or what was entrusted to him, or the lost property he found, or whatever it was he swore falsely about. He must make restitution in full, add a fifth of the value to it and give it all to the owner on the day he presents his guilt offering.

The guilty person must not only return what was stolen, they must pay an additional 20%. That is restitution plus 20%. America's penal system does not have a sense of restitution, yet alone a 20% penalty.

(I wonder if our growth of government, government entitlements, and growth in taxes are a result of this lack of concern for personal property.)

Telling the truth

Years ago, I was in a church's annual business meeting where the chairman said a falsehood. It was probably unintentional. There had been a general meeting several days prior to the annual meeting where the errant statement was made by someone else and I corrected it.

Here, at the annual meeting, no one corrected the chairman. I waited a while and then asked to be recognized - and then corrected him.

Leviticus 5:1 says 'If a person sins because he does not speak up when he hears a public charge to testify regarding something he has seen or learned about, he will be held responsible.'

The burden is on believers to be TRUTH TELLERS.

East of Eden

I've never read the book "East of Eden." Perhaps I'll look it up, now that I see "East of Eden" (and just plain "East") as a recurrent theme in the Bible.

Gen 3:24 - After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life.

Gen 4:16 - So Cain went out from the Lord's presence and lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden.

Abraham was the first person mentioned in the Bible to travel west

Gen 13:11a - So Lot chose for himself the whole plain of the Jordan and set out toward the east. The two men parted company

The following two are about the construction and layout of the tabernacle:


Ex 36:27 -They made six frames for the far end, that is, the west end of the tabernacle,
The front of the tabernacle was to the East. The priests walked from east to west to approach the Lord.

Lev 1:16 - He is to remove the crop with its contents and throw it to the east side of the altar, where the ashes are.
The discard was cast out to the east.

The Prodigal Son

In Luke 15:11-32, Jesus tells the parable of the prodigal son. It begins:

Jesus continued: "There was a man who had two sons. The younger one said to his father, 'Father, give me my share of the estate.' So he divided his property between them. "Not long after that, the younger son got together all he had, set off for a distant country and there squandered his wealth in wild living."

When living in rebellion against the father, he was still living off the riches of the father.
Imagine this rebellious son throwing a party - someone asks him "where did you get such fine wine?" - would he have said "I bought it with my father's wealth."?

When we have lived in rebellion against God, we were still his beneficiaries.
Even now, after my redemption, it is so easy to see the "wealth" I have as mine and not as His provision!

Economic Rules from a century ago

1. You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
2. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
3. You cannot help the poor man by destroying the rich.
4. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by increasing class hatred.
5. You cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiative and independence.
6. You cannot help small men by tearing down big men.
7. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
8. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income.
9. You cannot establish security on borrowed money.
10. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they will not do for themselves

Rev. William J. H. Boetcke, 1916

The Journal, December 2008, by Summit Ministries

Thomas Jefferson - a "supply sider"

Thomas Jefferson argued that "a wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government.

The Journal, December 2008, by Summit Ministries

The December issue of The Journal discusses a financial disaster in the 1830 similar to the one we've experienced recently. Easy credit led to land speculation. Prior to 1832, land sales on the frontier were running about $2.5 million per year. By 1836, annual land sales totaled $25 million.

In our recent debacle, it is estimated that 1/4 of all homes sales were speculative sales. Once housing prices stopped rising, and interest rates began to rise, foreclosures increased.

At Christ's coming (1 Th 4:v16) the trumpet will sound and the rapture will occur. As verses 16 and 17 say, "the dead in Christ will rise first" and then "we will be caught up together with them."

When a Roman army would return from victory, they would camp outside Rome and wait for the town to prepare for a triumphal entry. When the town was ready, the residents would go out to meet them and parade with them into town.

"We will be with the Lord forever." (v 17) We will be with Christ as he "rules with a rod of iron" and defeats his foes. As Christ approaches, (5:3) destruction will reign down on his adversaries.

This matches with the the passage from 1 Th. we looked at. Verse 9 is often used by Dispensationalists to argue for a pre-trib rapture since 'we aren't appointed to wrath' and the 7 year tribulation is full of wrath. However, if you read the full text for the context, it is clearly that "we aren't going to hell" "we're going to be with the Lord" Which means that the destruction which rains down on the unbelievers will not be on "us" (if we're alive at His coming).

Christ's return

Claim:
Every clear teaching regarding Christ's return shows that Jesus' return is the culmination of all things. There is no secret rapture and no millennial kingdom.

The three clear texts teaching about Christ's return are:
1 Thessalonians 4:16 - 5:3
2Thessalonians 2:7-8
2 Peter 3:10

1 Th. 4:16-5:3
16 For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever. 18 Therefore encourage each other with these words. 5:1 Now, brothers, about times and dates we do not need to write to you, 2 for you know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. 3 While people are saying, "Peace and safety," destruction will come on them suddenly, as labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.


2 Th 2:7-8
7 For the secret power of lawlessness is already at work; but the one who now holds it back will continue to do so till he is taken out of the way. 8 And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will overthrow with the breath of his mouth and destroy by the splendor of his coming.

2 Peter 3:10 But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything in it will be laid bare.

Jesus return ONCE
It is called "the day of the Lord"
That day will come as a surprise to unbelievers "like a thief"
And destruction will come upon Christ's enemies.

This sequence coincides with the return of Christ in Revelation 20:7-9
7 When the thousand years are over, Satan will be released from his prison
8 and will go out to deceive the nations in the four corners of the earth--Gog and Magog--to gather them for battle. In number they are like the sand on the seashore.
9 They marched across the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of God's people, the city he loves. But fire came down from heaven and devoured them.

May I recommend some John Piper videos?

Do you love Jesus Christ more than football?
http://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=lPBCGMBmDHE

Let's not waste our lives
http://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=DKNFbZa9cH4

What Christians need to remember about politics (especially the last 1/2)
http://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=YGjGbZNyIBY

I am not surprised that Obama has won.
Unfortunately, he is ultra liberal

It would be depressing but my life is not wrapped up in the the country - rather it is wrapped up in the Lord.

A general question I have for any evangelical that voted for Obama is "is abortion wrong?"

Page 15 of the national Democratic platform endorses "reproductive health care" - - they consistently fight for any form of abortion and partial birth abortion and Obama voted against the giving of aid to children born alive after a failed abortion attempt.

The MN Family Council states that 39 abortions are performed in MN each day.
If that is carried out in each state, we have a 9/11 happening every day across America


Another question for an evangelical that tends to vote Democratic is "have you at LEAST gone to the caucus and submitted a resolution against those stances?"
"why not?"
These are clear-cut platform stances which need to change.

NEA - The National Education Assoc

the journal of Summit Ministries reported (October 2008):

[Delegates of the NEA met at their annual convention in July this year. they] sported buttons with provocative slogans such as "Gay marriage causes Global Warming only because we are so hot!:, "Hate is not a family value," " The 'Christian Right' is neither," and "Gay Rights are civil rights."

[They passed non-education related resolutions] such as supporting stat-hood for the District of Columbia, a 'single-payer heath care plan' (i.e., government-run), gun control, ratification of the International Criminal Court Treaty, and taking steps "to change activities that contribute to global climate change."

their source: Phyllis Schlafly, Human Events, July 28, 2008, pg. 10

When will these "teachers" teach?

Global Warming

The October 2008 issue of the journal (by Summit Ministries) states:

British archives contain more than 100,000 Royal Navy logbooks from around 1670 to 1850 ... They are a stunning resource.

The UK Met Office ... scoured more than 6,000 Royal Navy logs dating from the 1600s. 'Ships' officers recorded air pressure, wind strength, air and sea temperatures and other weather conditions. From these records, scientists can build a detailed picture of past weather and climate ... the findings show ... we went through a similar period of global warming in the 1730s that could not have been man-made.

the journal cites newstrackindia.com, August 4, 2008

Michael Ruse - Evolution is a Religion

Michael Ruse, in Saving Darwinism from the Darwinians, National Post, May 13, 2000, B-3, Ruse said:

"Evolution is promoted by its practitioners as more than mere science. Evolution is promulgated as an ideology, a secular religion - a full-fledged alternative to Christianity, with meaning and morality. I am an ardent evolutionist and an ex-Christian, but I must admit that in this one complaint ... the literalists are absolutely right. Evolution is a religion. This was true of evolution in the beginning, and it is true of evolution still today."


Every worldview needs to explain how we got here.
Secular humanists need a creation story and they have developed Neo Darwinian Evolution to explain how we got here.

Global Warming

On 10/12, I reported on Dr. Larry Vardiman's article regarding climate change in the October issue of Acts & Facts.

His second article, in the November Acts & Facts at http://www.icr.org/article/4156/

There is a 0.92 correlation between cosmic ray strength / volume and cloud cover. fro (1983 to 2005) This correlation has been traced back to about 1600 AD.

"A potential change in cloud cover of 3-4 percent caused by changes in cosmic ray flux is sufficient to explain global temperature changes of several degrees due to the change in the reflectivity of clouds."

A significant amount of global warming is caused by the sun. Perhaps we should reduce its "carbon footprint"!

Superfaults

A year-long world-wide flood would significantly change the Earth's contours. Also, in the years immediately following the flood, there can be a lot of movement of the Earth as it regains equilibrium.

As reported in the Nov, 2008 Acts & Facts:
"The Heart Mountain detachment fault in northwestern Wyoming near Yellowstone National Park is the largest continental rockslide known on earth. this mass of rock, more than 400 square miles in area and over 1,000 feet thick, moved rapidly down a slope of less than 2 degrees at an estimated speed of 50 miles per hour."

The article discusses a possible way the immense friction of this rock formation could be reduced to allow the movement. You can read the article at http://www.icr.org/article/4154/

This is not an appeal to the "God of the gaps."
Rather, it is a phenomena more easily explained within the context of a major earth-wide catrastophe which saw the earth's tectonic plates move vast distances and had long-range effects, such as the movement of the Heart Mountain detachment fault.

Phlegon - regarding the darkness at Christ's crucifixion

Dr. Paul Maier mentioned Phlegon in an interview on IssuesEtc (June 16, 2006 3rd hour).
Phlegon is an extra Biblical historian that chronicled the darkness at the time of Christ's crucifixion.

I found his quotes and others which seem to be based on his text at http://www.textexcavation.com/phlegontestimonium.html

He wrote "In the fourth year, however, of Olympiad 202, an eclipse of the sun happened, greater and more excellent than any that had happened before it; at the sixth hour, day turned into dark night, so that the stars were seen in the sky, and an earthquake in Bithynia toppled many buildings of the city of Nicaea. These things [are according to] the aforementioned man."

Dr. Maier said that Phlegon's dating places this event in the 4th month of the 4th year of the 202nd Olympiad. This places it at April, 33 AD.

This fits well with the dating of Jesus' crucifixion.

another source which I'll investigate later:
http://www.classicapologetics.com/d/DawsHeathen.pdf
a negative response:
http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/richard_carrier/thallus.html

"The (restored) Temple" and "all Israel" (will be saved)

I was just listening to Dr. Randall Price on KKMS radio.
He is a Dispensationalist and believes in a future, rebuilt, temple in which there will be a restored sacrificial system. He also believes that Romans 11 states that "all Israel will be saved".

I will briefly refute these or give "food for thought":

There are at least three relevant meanings to the word "temple" in the Bible.
1) the temple in Jerusalem where the sacrificial system was carried out
2) Jesus called himself the temple in John 2:19
Jesus answered them, "Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days."
3) Believers are called the temple in several passages
3a) 1 Cor 3:16 "Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?"
3b) 1 Cor 6:19 "Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God?"
3c) Eph 2:21 "in whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord."
3d) Rev 3:21 Jesus says "Him who overcomes I will make a pillar in the temple of my God."


Romans 11 does not say there will be a restored Israel, which is something Price just claimed.

Romans 11:25,26 says "Lest you be wise in your own sight, I want you to understand this mystery, brothers: a partial hardening has come upon Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in. And in this way all Israel will be saved, as it is written,

FIRST
Verse 25 says there is a "partial hardening of Israel." Obviously, not all Israel had been hardened since Paul (the author) is of Israel and is saved.

SECOND
This period of history is characterized as a time where both Jews and Gentiles “coming in.”
And
“in this way” all Israel will be saved

"IN THIS WAY"
“in this way” DOES NOT SAY/MEAN “and then”
“and then” would indicate that “at a future time, the partial hardening will be removed and all Israel will be saved”

But the text says “in this way” or (in other translations) “thus”

The only clear message this gives is “by this method God is saving the Israel of faith” - - if there is a possible additional meaning, it is not stated here and must come from another text.

Earlier in Romans (ch 9:6,7) , Paul stated "But it is not as though the word of God has failed. For not all who are descended from Israel belong to Israel, and not all are children of Abraham because they are his offspring"

So the Israel that God is saving in Romans 11:26 only needs to be the subset of the full ethnic Israel.

How great is our problem?

if the problem is Adam's bad example
the solution is Christ's good example (or Buddha, or ...)

if we are dead in our sins
we solution is savior to revive us and rescue us

The creation WAS subjected to futility

Romans 8
17 Now if we are children, then we are heirs--heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.
18 I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.
19 The creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed.
20 For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope
21 that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God.
22 We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.
23 Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.

I read verse 20 to Hugh Ross (an old Earth creationist) and stressed that the creation WAS subjected to futility and asked him WHEN did this happen?

He said that it was created in futility!

In Genesis 3:17,18 God cursed the ground.
"To Adam he said, "Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, 'You must not eat of it,' "Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field."

In Genesis 5:29 this curse is referred to as an historical event tied to the fall.
"He named him Noah and said, "He will comfort us in the labor and painful toil of our hands caused by the ground the LORD has cursed."

The curse is tied to the fall. The Earth, as we see it today, is under the curse and is NOT the same as when Adam and Eve first walked upon it.

Hugh Ross performs eisigesis (reading his beliefs into the text) rather than exegesis (reading the text for what it says or means). The thrust of Romans 8 calls for an understanding of the Earth being "perfect" and then being "fallen" after the sin of Adam and Eve.

The age of Saturn's rings

The 1981 Voyager flybys astonished scientists with images of hundreds of individual ringlets and gaps. ... there was far more dynamism and structure than expecte, leading specialists at the time to conclude that the rings were young rather than primordial (i.e., formed along with Saturn). Upper limits were put at ~100 million years, only 2.2 percent of the assumed age of the solar system (4.5 billion years).

from the October 2008 Acts & Facts

by ICR - Institue for Creation Research

There are many "timepieces" in our solar system and on the earth which indicate a young earth.

Dinosaur Soft Tissue

Click on the title to this blog to go to an article from ICR's Acts & Facts on the Dinosaur Soft Tissue found about 10 years ago.

If the dinosaur was truly 63 million years old, the tissue and blood cells would not survived.

So, the atheistic naturalistic scientists have to come up with a theory of how blood cells can survive. "'Schweitzer's work is showing us we really don't understand decay', paleontologist Thomas Holtz said in Smithsonian magazine." (May 2006)

Perhaps the evolutionists need to re-examine their paradigm.

Global Warming and the Little Ice Age

Have you ever wondered why there were paintings of the canals of Holland frozen over and people skating on them? These scenes were popularized by Hans Christian Andersen and Danny Kaye.

I've wondered how a warm place like Holland could have frozen canals.

The October 2008 issue of Acts & Facts (by ICR - Institute for Creation Research) has an article "Does Carbon Dioxide Drive Global Warming?" by Larry Vardiman. (click on the heading to this blog to go the the article.)

If you follow my enclosed link to the article, you will see Figure 1 showing that there was a warm period in Europe from 1000 to 14000 AD. During this time, the "crops flourished, the economy boomed, and the Vikings settled parts of Greenland where the ice sheets had melted back.

From about 1400 to 1900 A.D. a 500 year cold period occurred. ... grapes could no longer be grown, the economy declined, and the Viking s were forced out of Greenland by the encroaching snow and ice. Sunspots were found to be fewer during this time period, ...The coldest center portion of this period with the fewest number of sunspots is called the Little Ice Age. The canals in Holland, unlike today, froze over each winter."

This answers my nagging question.
The article also states that global warming precedes the rise in Carbon Dioxide, not the other-way-around that Al Gore claims.