Irrelevant apocrypha from days gone by....SuperHornet wrote:This is on a par with "Cleanliness is next to Godliness."
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n.b. This has nothing to do with the allegations that President Obama is a closet Moslem. It has much more to do with the fact that the vast majority of the USA is Biblically illiterate, Christians included.
The saying, “God helps those who help themselves” was first coined by Benjamin Franklin, a Deist. In case you’re wondering, a Deist is one who believes that while a supreme being did indeed create the universe, that supreme being does not involve itself in human affairs. Therefore, miracles and special revelation (such as healing, prophecy, the virgin birth & resurrection of Jesus, and the inspiration of the Scriptures) don’t actually happen.
Swing and a miss....houndawg wrote:It's all myth.
I think he nailed it.SuperHornet wrote:Swing and a miss....houndawg wrote:It's all myth.
au contraire, PierreSuperHornet wrote:Swing and a miss....houndawg wrote:It's all myth.
houndawg wrote: Don't know why it is so hard for some to accept that the cosmology of nomadic sheepherders that lived 2,000 years ago didn't have the details right....
Sheepherders today are not known to occupy the apex of modern knowledge either, does that hurt or help this argument?houndawg wrote:au contraire, PierreSuperHornet wrote:
Swing and a miss....
Don't know why it is so hard for some to accept that the cosmology of nomadic sheepherders that lived 2,000 years ago didn't have the details right....