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To: ducttape45

I see that phrase “God helps those who help themselves” is more closer to the truth of the Bible than the idea that God does everything for man while man sits idly by on his rear end doing nothing.


25 posted on 08/13/2020 5:06:27 AM PDT by Oneanddone
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To: Oneanddone; exnavy; ducttape45

2 Chronicles 20 - Jehoshaphat and the Moabites and Ammonites
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Chronicles+20&version=ESV

Exodus 14 - Crossing the Red Sea
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus+14&version=ESV

Joshua and taking the promised land
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Joshua+10&version=ESV

And there’s Gideon, Hezekiah, Elisha, David.

Scripture is replete with examples of God taking care of the enemy, causing them to either destroy themselves, or Him destroying them, while Israel just stood and watched.


29 posted on 08/13/2020 5:31:14 AM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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