In the middle of the controversy over the Biofuels Act, it might do much good to revisit one of the main events that helped catalyze its approval by Congress. On May 3, 2006, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo inaugurated what was then Asia's largest biodiesel plant: the Chemrez Technologies coco-biodiesel plant, with a capacity for 60 million liters per annum and constructed with an investment of PHP 650 M.
The inauguration of this plant did not only signal the coming of age of the biodiesel industry. It also demonstrated that the Biofuels Act that was then being contemplated was doable, and not mere speculation. The rest, as they say, is history. The Biofuels Act was passd later that year.
Perhaps we need to remind people that, before the Biofuels Act was passed, Congress, the Departments of Agriculture and Energy and the biofuels industry had been faced with precisely the same questions that are now being raised by the media against this Act. These same questions had been raised then and already answered after exhaustive investigation and study, much of it under the same senator who is now questioning certain aspects of the Biofuels Act.
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OK, it's time for those who deny Jesus to close their eyes again.
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TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 2008
Synod on Scripture 3 Months Away
The upcoming synod of bishops on Scripture has finally registered on the trad radar--now that it's only 3 months away. "Better late than never," they say. But I prefer to say, early is better than late. That's why I was warning people about this matter 13 months ago when there was still time bring pressure to bear on the Judaizing elements who will now, no doubt, run amok at the synod--that is, barring a miracle. I leave it to the reader to guess whether such a miracle is deserved.
I wonder when the trads will address the Vatican document which implies that the Talmudic "Noahide Laws" are found in the New Testament. Perhaps, sometime after the "Noahide Laws" are written into the Catechism ...
Kosher Catholic Exegesis
http://mauricepinay.blogspot.com/2007/05/
kosher-catholic-exegesis.html
What to Expect From 2008 Synod
http://mauricepinay.blogspot.com/2007/05/
what-to-expect-in-2008.html
Highlights From Itinerary For 2008 Synod
http://mauricepinay.blogspot.com/2007/05/
highlights-from-itinerary-for-2008.html
Vatican: "Christians Can Learn Much From 'Jewish' Exegesis of Past 2000 Years"
http://mauricepinay.blogspot.com/2007/05/
vatican-christians-can-learn-much-from.html
More Signs of What to Expect from the October Synod
http://mauricepinay.blogspot.com/2008/01/
more-signs-of-what-to-expect-from.html
Papal Commission Promotes Noahide Laws
http://mauricepinay.blogspot.com/2007/03/
theyre-making-their-move.html
TUESDAY, MAY 22, 2007
Vatican: "Christians Can Learn Much From 'Jewish' Exegesis of Past 2000 Years"
The Vatican sez:
... Christians can and ought to admit that the Jewish reading of the Bible is a possible one ...
... Christians can, nonetheless, learn much from Jewish exegesis practised for more than two thousand years ...
(The Jewish People and their Sacred Scriptures in the Christian Bible, Pontifical Biblical Commission, Vatican, May 24th, 2001)
... Jewish biblical scholarship in all its richness, from its origins in antiquity down to the present day, is an asset of the highest value for the exegesis of both Testaments ...
(The Interpretation of the Bible in the Church, Pontifical Biblical Commission, Vatican, March 18, 1994)
Here is a representative example of Judaic exegesis of Old Testament scripture from the past 2000 years. I leave it to the readers to draw their own conclusions as to the Vatican's statements in reference to it:
Rabbi Eleazar further stated: What is meant by the Scriptural text, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh? (Genesis 2;23) This teaches that Adam had intercourse with every beast and animal but found no satisfaction until he cohabited with Eve. (Babylonian Talmud, Yebamoth, 63a, London, The Soncino Press, 1961)
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