Have you ever asked God anything?

[Nebor]

For all of you who think God gives you ideas and helps you with things... here's a little funny story I heard a while back:
A farmer buys a plot of land, it's barren, the soil dry and hard. So he sets about fertilizing it, and planting soy, and watering all the time. In a year's time, he's changed the land into fertile moist soil. In another year's time, he has corn growing higher than his head. Well along comes the local preacher, who greets the farmer and says, "My my, God has helped you to make the land very moist and fertile." And then "Goodness, God has helped you to make the corn grow tall and straight!" And then "Gee whiz, God has helped you to grow some huge ears of corn!" Finally the farmer pipes up and says, "Now Mr., I'm not trying to piss you off, but you shoulda seen this place when God was workin' it by himself."

 

[Hyperblaze]

Originally posted by: Nebor
For all of you who think God gives you ideas and helps you with things... here's a little funny story I heard a while back:
A farmer buys a plot of land, it's barren, the soil dry and hard. So he sets about fertilizing it, and planting soy, and watering all the time. In a year's time, he's changed the land into fertile moist soil. In another year's time, he has corn growing higher than his head. Well along comes the local preacher, who greets the farmer and says, "My my, God has helped you to make the land very moist and fertile." And then "Goodness, God has helped you to make the corn grow tall and straight!" And then "Gee whiz, God has helped you to grow some huge ears of corn!" Finally the farmer pipes up and says, "Now Mr., I'm not trying to piss you off, but you shoulda seen this place when God was workin' it by himself."

😕

 

[Insane3D]

Makes perfect sense to me...what are you confused about?

 

[Hyperblaze]

Originally posted by: Insane3D
Makes perfect sense to me...what are you confused about?

I'm sleepy. My brain is having trouble analyzing story.

care to explain?

 

[Nebor]

Originally posted by: Jero

Originally posted by: Insane3D
Makes perfect sense to me...what are you confused about?

I'm sleepy. My brain is having trouble analyzing story.

care to explain?

The farmer worked hard to make the land grow well. The Preacher attributes it to God's help. The farmer tells him that God wasn't doing a good job working the land by himself. Get it?

 

[Hyperblaze]

Originally posted by: Nebor

Originally posted by: Jero

Originally posted by: Insane3D
Makes perfect sense to me...what are you confused about?

I'm sleepy. My brain is having trouble analyzing story.

care to explain?

The farmer worked hard to make the land grow well. The Preacher attributes it to God's help. The farmer tells him that God wasn't doing a good job working the land by himself. Get it?

thanks for the explanation.

So moral of the story, if you work hard at things you tend to get good results.

And yes, God probably helped there in some way 😉

 

[Nebor]

Originally posted by: Jero

Originally posted by: Nebor

Originally posted by: Jero

Originally posted by: Insane3D
Makes perfect sense to me...what are you confused about?

I'm sleepy. My brain is having trouble analyzing story.

care to explain?

The farmer worked hard to make the land grow well. The Preacher attributes it to God's help. The farmer tells him that God wasn't doing a good job working the land by himself. Get it?

thanks for the explanation.

So moral of the story, if you work hard at things you tend to get good results.

And yes, God probably helped there in some way 😉

Since the land was sh!tty and barren when the farmer arrived, God wasn't doing a good job. If anything, the farmer helped God.

 

[BannedTroll]

Originally posted by: Nebor
For all of you who think God gives you ideas and helps you with things... here's a little funny story I heard a while back:
A farmer buys a plot of land, it's barren, the soil dry and hard. So he sets about fertilizing it, and planting soy, and watering all the time. In a year's time, he's changed the land into fertile moist soil. In another year's time, he has corn growing higher than his head. Well along comes the local preacher, who greets the farmer and says, "My my, God has helped you to make the land very moist and fertile." And then "Goodness, God has helped you to make the corn grow tall and straight!" And then "Gee whiz, God has helped you to grow some huge ears of corn!" Finally the farmer pipes up and says, "Now Mr., I'm not trying to piss you off, but you shoulda seen this place when God was workin' it by himself."

lol

 

[wchou]

sleep

 

[her209]

I asked God not screw me and let me hit that... and he let me down. 🙁

 

[Monkey muppet]

Why is God always refered to as a male

 

[xSauronx]

Originally posted by: Nebor

Originally posted by: Jero

Originally posted by: Nebor

Originally posted by: Jero

Originally posted by: Insane3D
Makes perfect sense to me...what are you confused about?

I'm sleepy. My brain is having trouble analyzing story.

care to explain?

The farmer worked hard to make the land grow well. The Preacher attributes it to God's help. The farmer tells him that God wasn't doing a good job working the land by himself. Get it?

thanks for the explanation.

So moral of the story, if you work hard at things you tend to get good results.

And yes, God probably helped there in some way 😉

Since the land was sh!tty and barren when the farmer arrived, God wasn't doing a good job. If anything, the farmer helped God.

this is one youre not going to win, someone can say god did something no matter what without any type of proof that god even farted in the direction of the farm, or proof there is a god, and whatever you say about the farmer doing it himself, they'll keep throwing god on top of it somehow someway instead of facing the fact that people actually have the ability to do things on their own without some invisible unproveable super-being involving him/herself in the affairs of others.

You could dig a hole in your backyard and someone would say "wow, god gave you the strength to do that, thank god!" when really you ....just dug a hole in your backyard.

Its strange. I grew up around people who thought it normal to thank god if a parking space at the front of the lot opened up; nevermind that that was going to happen because its absolutely inevitable that people leave the grovery store. Its one thing to be happy about it, who doesnt love a front spot to park in when theyre shopping?

But to thank the being you believe created all of existance for someone pulling out just as you arrived is just....just weird; but it's also an argument youre never going to win because at any time someone could add something about god that trumps whatever your argument is because its the creator of the universe and how can you know better than god....right? "Mysterious ways" and all that which we cant understand...but is still an acceptable final answer to far too many people.

meh to it; it's too early for this </rant>

 

[ctcsoft]

Originally posted by: aplefka
Many times. He's followed through on some of them too, which is all the proof I need. It's all about faith anyway, right?