today's verse, Matthew 17:20-21 The Message
"You're not yet taking God seriously," said Jesus. "The simple truth is that if you had a mere kernel of faith, a poppy seed, say, you would tell this mountain, 'Move!' and it would move. There is nothing you wouldn't be able to tackle."
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.T
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Obama included the above passage in his acceptance speech to motivate people into doing whatever they must to help put this country back on track. I immediately thought, after hearing him say it, of another one: "God helps those who help themselves." It's symbiosis. Have faith and work on moving that proverbial mountain and He will provide the strength because "Everything is possible through Christ."
At least I think that's how it goes.
Anyway, I'm not an avid church attendee or anything. Still, I remember whatever I was taught and it just makes sense. Too bad the Repubs rely on scripture as a mere strategy than honest belief...
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The quote to which you refer, "god helps those who help themselves", does not actually originate from the Old or New Testament of the Christian Bible. It was written by Benjamin Franklin, for his Poor Richard's Almanac. He did not mean it to infer that one might obtain heavenly favor by showing one's work ethic, but rather that those who worked to solve their own problems could often find those solutions attributed to divine intervention. Remember, this is the man who also said, "The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason", and "Lighthouses are more helpful than churches ( ... )
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