Debaters :
E.g., Climate Debate Daily, Climate Depot (More on 'Climate': E.g., 'Top 50 Eco-blogs' via Times of London), Famous scientists: [James Hansen, "renowned climate scientist", e.g., columbia.edu "..who speaks up, e.g., Grist.org: "about the growing urgency of global warming, why a molecule of CO2 from coal is worse than a molecule of CO2 from oil, and what we need to do to get the climate crisis under control." Gauge his impact at, e.g., Google.org] [cp., e.g., Richard Lindzen, "..one of the highest prolife climate skeptic scientists..": "..carbon dioxide would tend to contribute warming. But there is no agreement that the warming we've seen is due to man.." (5/13/06) ] [Freeman Dyson, nytimes, 3/29/09: "agrees with the prevailing view that there are rapidly rising carbon-dioxide levels in the atmosphere caused by human activity. To the planet, he suggests, the rising carbon may well be a MacGuffin, a striking yet ultimately benign occurrence in what Dyson says is still 'a relatively cool period in the earth's history.' The warming, he says, is not global but local, 'making cold places warmer rather than making hot places hotter.' Far from expecting any drastic harmful consequences from these increased temperatures, he says the carbon may well be salubrious – a sign that 'the climate is actually improving rather than getting worse,' because carbon acts as an ideal fertilizer promoting forest growth and crop yields. 'Most of the evolution of life occurred on a planet substantially warmer than it is now,' he contends, 'and substantially richer in carbon dioxide.' Dyson calls ocean acidification, which many scientists say is destroying the saltwater food chain, a genuine but probably exaggerated problem. Sea levels, he says, are rising steadily, but why this is and what dangers it might portend 'cannot be predicted until we know much more about its causes.' "]
Ten Things Debaters Should Know About Economics (J.M. Keynes is Dead??)
"Jesus lived and walked on earth for about 33 years in the early years of the 1st century AD. For most of his life he worked, probably as a carpenter, in the obscurity of Nazareth, a busy town in northern Israel..." (Church of England)
"Jesus, knowing all that was going to happen to him, went out and asked them, 'Who is it you want?' 'Jesus of Nazareth,' they replied. 'I am he,' Jesus said...When Jesus said, 'I am he,' they drew back and fell to the ground."
NIV, Jn. 18:4,5
"[The Apostle] Peter on the day of Pentecost cites language from Joel that
speaks of the Day of the Lord (Yahweh) and of calling on the name of the Lord for salvation (Acts 2:20-21); and this means calling on the name of Jesus of Nazareth (4:10, 12). Jesus has been made Lord while God continues to be Lord (2:36, 39). Jesus, as Lord, has entered upon the exercise of certain divine functions. He has poured out the Spirit (2:33); he has become the object of faith (2:21; 3:16); he gives repentence and forgiveness (5:31); he is the Holy One (3:14); the author of life (3:15); the recipient of prayer (4:29); he will be the judge of the world (10:42); and he stands at the right hand of God..(7:55, 59)."-- Source: G.E. Ladd, A Theology of the New Testament, Eerdman's, 1974, p. 341
"..the director [Franco Zeffirelli] found himself in the center of a controversy upon finishing the expensive Euro-American TV miniseries Jesus of Nazareth; certain religious activists, upset that the ads promised a 'human' look at Jesus, forced several sponsors to withdraw their advertising from the telecast. (The 'scandal' proved groundless, since Zeffirelli's Jesus was one of the most reverently accurate ever seen in films.).." --Source: Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
"..the covenant made and fulfilled for the world's salvation..has in fact taken place once and for all..[it] certainly bears a linear chronological sense..happened once as this unique history..also as the history of the way of Jesus of Nazareth to Jerusalem in the days of Caesar Augustus..it is revealed..as the history of salvation. But the 'once and for all' as applied to this history cannot be intended or meant restrictively..It is an event which is not present, or present only in the recollection of its happening then..His history has been, but it has not passed..¶¶It is not any lordship which is established, exercised and proclaimed, but the lordship of the Lord without whose creative Word there would be no worldly powers and authorities and in the face of whom no such power or authority can thus lay claim to independent force or significance..Its direct origin in God's eternal election, decision and act is what gives its voice authority. This is its distinctive feature..the mystery of the awakening of Jesus Christ from the dead, and therefore of His unconquerable and indestructible life..God Himself is the Beginner in this beginning. The history which here begins cannot grow old in time." --Source: Karl Barth, via books
.google.com: Church Dogmatics, Vol. 4/3/1 (Editors: Bromiley and Torrance), T&T Clark, 1961, pp. 223ff.
"I am irresistably attracted to the mysterious, or rather to the reality behind the mysterious..the eternal..that there is often a grain of truth in that which is indistinct, is what spurs my curiosity. The question being what is that grain? ¶ And it is just such fascination that I have long felt for Jesus of Nazareth...I have long been astonished by certain circumstances that make the story of Jesus..so incredibly fascinating..¶Despite that, I didn't include the story of Jesus of Nazareth in the series From the Shadows of the Past. Why not? Because it felt like taboo. ¶ Jesus arouses emotion in a way that Moses never has done.." (p.2). ¶"To summarize, we can note that Jesus of Nazareth can hardly have been a person who was generally known in Judea during his lifetime, or important for the development of that society, because if he had been, he would have acquired a greater place in the contemporary historical descriptions...¶What is clear..is that his teachings, within just a few decades, became widespread within the Roman Empire." (p. 43)--Source: Lena Einhorn (film maker, for, e.g., PBS), The Jesus Mystery (Advance Reading Copy), lyonspress.com, 2007, pp 2, 43
[Note: Aside from mis-handling the very existence and power today of the teachings of Jesus of Nazereth, Ms. Einhorn mis-judges force of her argument rooted in John E. Remberg's work The Christ: A Critical Review and Analysis of the Evidence of His Existence. The/ir case, that Christ, Jesus of Nazareth himself did not "exist", unhinges while considering carefully the two quotes (employed in the context of Ms. Einhorn's argumentation) from 1st century documentation drawn from historian Josephus. In the first quote Josephus makes it very clear that James, indeed, the James of Scripture known as Jesus of Nazareth's brother, was tried and executed for violating the Jewish law. Quite simply, why doesn't (or where does) Ms. Einhorn dispute the veracity of this substantial record of James' death via Josephus? The point is that one must refute the historical existence of James, perhaps of Josephus and the Christian churches, too, in order to ignore and deny the existence of James' brother: Jesus of Nazareth. Impossible, evidently, in light of the extant writings of both James and Josephus.]
"..before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day Noah entered the ark. And they knew nothing until the flood came and took them all away. It will be the same at the coming of the Son of Man.. ¶ ..stay alert..you do not know on what day your Lord will come. But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief was coming, he would have been alert and would not have let his house be broken into.. you also..must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him. ¶Who then is the faithful and wise slave, whom the master has put in charge of his household, to give the other slaves their food at the proper time? Blessed is that slave whom the master finds at work when he comes..the master will put him in charge of all his possessions."
NETBible, Matt. 24
