After Yeshua’s resurrection, He appeared many times. He appeared to Mary Magdalene (Mark 16: 9-11 and John 20: 11-18) and other women (Matthew 28: 9-10); His disciples saw Him several times after His resurrection (Matthew 28: 16-20, Luke 24: 34 and 44-53, Mark 16: 14-18, Luke 24: 33-43, John 20: 19-25, John 20: 26-31, and John 21: 1-25); and on one occasion, He appeared to a group of about 500 men and women. (1 Corinthians 15: 6) All the eyewitness testimony about the resurrected Messiah was, and is, impossible to refute without producing His remains. If you can find His corpse, show it to me.

“For here we are not afraid to follow the truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.” (Thomas Jefferson)

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Scripture of the Day:

Isaiah 17: 9-14—“In that day their strong cities will be like forsaken places in the forest, or like branches which they abandoned before the sons of Israel; and the land will be a desolation. For you have forgotten the God of your salvation and have not remembered the rock of your refuge. Therefore you plant delightful plants and set them with vine slips of a strange god. In the day that you plant it you carefully fence it in, and in the morning you bring your seed to blossom; but the harvest will be a heap in a day of sickliness and incurable pain. Alas, the uproar of many peoples who roar like the roaring of the seas, and the rumbling of nations who rush on like the rumbling of mighty waters! The nations rumble on like the rumbling of many waters, but He will rebuke them and they will flee far away, and be chased like chaff in the mountains before the wind, or like whirling dust before a gale. At evening time, behold, there is terror! Before morning they are no more. Such will be the portion of those who plunder us and the lot of those who pillage us.”

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Yeshua Left an Empty Tomb!

The priests were very concerned about Yeshua’s disciples’ activities, and the Acts of the Apostles tells about their many attempts to prevent His disciples from spreading the good news about Him. But no matter how hard they tried, every day more and more Jewish people accepted Yeshua as their Messiah. Therefore, it is reasonable to conclude that the priests who conspired with the Roman authorities to kill Yeshua felt even more threatened after His death than before.

The priests knew that Yeshua foretold His death and resurrection (for example, see Matthew 12: 40, Matthew 26: 61, and John 2: 19), so they asked the Roman governor to guard His tomb—“Sir, we remember that when He was still alive that deceiver said, ‘After three days, I am to rise again.’ Therefore, give orders for the grave to be made secure until the third day, otherwise His disciples may come and steal Him away and say to the people, ‘He has risen from the dead,’ and the last deception will be worse than the first.’” (Matthew 27: 63-64)

They did secure the tomb, and He did rise from the dead in three days just as He said. You may be wondering, “How can he know Yeshua rose from the dead?” The answer is simple. If He had not risen from the dead, the priests needed only to produce His corpse to silence His followers. The fact that they did not produce His dead body for people to see is powerful evidence that they could not produce it.

But there is more. After Yeshua’s resurrection, He appeared many times. He appeared to Mary Magdalene (Mark 16: 9-11 and John 20: 11-18) and other women (Matthew 28: 9-10); His disciples saw Him several times after His resurrection (Matthew 28: 16-20, Luke 24: 34 and 44-53, Mark 16: 14-18, Luke 24: 33-43, John 20: 19-25, John 20: 26-31, and John 21: 1-25); and on one occasion, He appeared to a group of about 500 men and women. (1 Corinthians 15: 6) All the eyewitness testimony about the resurrected Messiah was, and is, impossible to refute without producing His remains.

At Mount Vernon, Virginia, you can visit the gravesite of George and Martha Washington and see their caskets. Underneath those casket lids, you will find their remains. In Charlottesville, Virginia, you will find the grave of Thomas Jefferson. If you wanted to see his body, all you would need to do is dig it up. In Seville, Spain, the casket holding the remains of Christopher Columbus is on display, and in Jerusalem you can see and touch the casket holding David’s corpse. None of these people have been resurrected. We know this because we have their remains with us today. Yeshua left no remains. All we have is an empty tomb.

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Special Climate Change Section:

SCIENCE EDITORIAL #12-2010 (April 17, 2010)

By S. Fred Singer, President, Science and Environmental Policy Project

For Fred Singer’s bio, click here.

Due Diligence on the IPCC Assessment Report #4 [2007]

I know it’s a tough job, but let’s just check the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Changes (IPCC 2007) iconic, widely-quoted conclusion and parse its meaning:

“Most of the observed increase in globally-averaged temperatures since the mid-20th century is very likely due to the observed increase in anthropogenic GH gas concentrations.”

How should one interpret this ex cathedra declaration to the faithful?

IPCC helpfully defines ‘very likely’ as ‘90-99% certain’, but they don’t tell us how they reached such well-defined certainty.

What remarkable unanimity! Just how many and whom did they poll? No word.

IPCC doesn’t define the word ‘most.’ We may assume it means anything between 51 and 99%. That’s quite a spread.

But a footnote informs us that solar forcing is less than 10% of anthropogenic [0.12/ 1.6 W/m2]; so ‘most’ must be closer to 99% than to 51%.

OK, let’s check out the data since 1958. But we don’t want to rely on contaminated surface data—which IPCC likely used (although they omitted to say so).

However, atmospheric data were readily available to the IPCC in the CCSP-SAP-1.1 report (Fig 3a, p.54; convening lead author John Lanzante, NOAA), with independent analyses by the Hadley Centre and NOAA that agree well. And further, according to GH models, atmospheric trends should be larger than surface temperature trends.

1958 to 2005 shows a total warming of +0.5 C. But how much of that is anthropogenic? (The IPCC ascribes pre-1958 warming to natural forcings.)

So let’s break it down:

1958—1976: Cooling.
1976—1977: Sudden jump of +0.5 C (cannot be due to GH gases).
1979—1997: The satellite data show only a slightly positive trend.
1998—1999: El Nino spike.
2000—2001: No detectable warming trend.
2001—2003: Sudden jump of +0.3 C (cannot be due to GH gases).
2003—present: No trend, maybe even slight cooling.

In conclusion, the IPCC’s ‘most’ is not sustained by the best observations; the surface data (1979 to 1997) are suspect—until the raw data and algorithms of CRU are examined.

Therefore, the human contribution is very likely only 10% of observed warming—or even less.

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