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Does anyone of those schools of thought teach that Jesus Christ died for the forgiveness of our sins. 

Look at this ..... I agree with you! @luigi    read this please: This is from the US Senate Committee and Public Works: Alarmist Claim #1: Antarctic Peninsula is shrinking FACT: 2008 peer-reviewed paper in American Geophysical Union found “a doubling in snow accumulation in the western Antarctic Peninsula since 1850.” Alarmist Claim #2: Glaciers are melting throughout the world. FACT: A UN Report in 2010 reported that “glaciers increasing despite climate change… glaciers in many areas of the world are increasing.” Alarmist Claim #3: The IPCC stated the Himalayan glaciers would melt by 2035. . FACT: The IPCC got that unsubstantiated and false statistic from a World Wildlife Federation brochure. In January 2010, Time magazine article, Himalayan Melting, How a Climate Panel Got it Wrong: “Glaciergate” is a “black eye for the IPCC and the climate-science community as a whole.” Alarmist Claim #4: Polar Bears are disappearing. FACT: Director of Wildlife Research with the Arctic Government of Nunavut: “Of 13 populations of polar bears in Canada, 11 are stable or increasing in number. They are not going extinct, or even appear to be affected at present.” FACT: In the 50’s and 60’s there were between 5,000 and 10,000 polar bears. Today there are between 15,000 and 25,000. Alarmist Claim #5: May 2013, President Obama claimed the climate is warming faster than anybody anticipated five or 10 years ago.” FACT: Nature reported “For the period [1998-2012] the observed trend of temperatures is … not significantly different from zero and suggests a temporary hiatus in global warming.” FACT: The Economist reported “over the past 15 years, air temperatures at the Earth’s surface have been flat …” Alarmist Claim #6: 2014 was the warmest year in modern record by 0.02 degree. FACT: Only a “38% chance 2014 was the warmest year on record.” Margin of error, which on average is 0.1 degree Celsius, made “impossible to conclude 2014 was the warmest year” according to the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature (BEST) project stated, Alarmist Claim #7: In 2000, Democrats started say Alarmist Claim #7: In 2000, Democrats started saying that the science is settled. FACT: I started getting phone calls from scientists disagreeing so I made a speech on the floor showing how many scientists disagreed. Alarmist Claim #8: Global warming is causing more tornadoes. FACT: A NOAA scientist rejected global warming link to tornados stating “no specific consensus or connection between global warming and tornadic activity.” Alarmist Claim #9: Global warming is causing hurricanes to increase in intensity and frequency. FACT: Geophysical Research Letters found “since 2006 tropical cyclone energy has decreased dramatically” to the lowest levels since the 1970s. Global frequency of tropical cyclones has reached a historic low. Alarmist Claim #10: Global warming is leading to an increased number of droughts. FACT: IPCC Fifth Assessment report, previous “conclusions regarding global increasing trend in drought since the 1970s were probably overstated.” Alarmist Claim #11: Global warming is causing sea levels to rise at a rapid pace. FACT: Journal of Geophysical Research found “there has been no statistically significant acceleration in sea level rise over the past 100 plus years.” Alarmist Claim #12: 97% of scientists agree global warming is manmade. FACT: WSJ found the 97% consensus to be predicated on “a handful of surveys and abstract-counting exercises that have been contradicted by more reliable research.” And ..... Now it's all about "carbon" and why it needs to be eliminated. Canada, under the new govt, is going for "carbon ZERO'! Do these people not know that without carbon we would all die? Carbon is essential for life.

Hey Revman, Can you site any book or article from the New Testament era.... say up to AD 600 that shows that the "Falling away, ie APOSTASY ...means Departing in the Greek it was written in"? The New Testament was written in Koine Greek... and nowhere in Koine Greek does "apostasia" refer to a "departure" as in leaving or being removed physically from one place to another. ......................................................................................................................... In Koine Greek, ἀποστασία (apostasia) means defection, rebellion, falling away, or apostasy. It is derived from the verb ἀφίστημι (aphistēmi), which means "to stand away from" or "to depart". Specifically, it refers to a formal renunciation or abandonment of a religious belief, often with a sense of rebellion or defection.  Here's a breakdown: ἀποστασία (apostasia): This noun, in its feminine form, signifies the state or act of falling away, rebellion, or defection.  ἀπο- (apo-): This prefix means "away from" or "from".  ἵστημι (histēmi): This verb means "to stand".  Therefore, the word ἀποστασία literally means "standing away from" or "a departure". In a religious context, it signifies a departure from faith or a renunciation of religious beliefs