[Iscool]

Imputation without actual rain doesn't make the desert fertile.

If God makes the desert wet without rain, it's still wet...

[Mad Dawg]

If God makes the desert wet without rain, it's still wet...

10-4. Certainly.

However "imputing" or "calling" (λογιζομαι note the similarity to λογος under the family of λεγω) the desert wet without some resulting change in the desert (whether from rain or from something else) seems problematic.