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No, firstly, I searched the E-Bible but got nothing alike.
Second, I refered the question to my pastor, he answered and I paraphase:
No, nowhere in the bible does it say, God helps those who help themselves. Nor does it infer such a proverb. The whole message of the gospel is that God in his grace and mercy came to offer us what we could not do for ourselves. And our Christian lives start by believing there is nothing we could do to help ourselves, by that same principle we live. But that does not mean we do not strive for excellence, striving for excellence is not helping ourselves substantially (although it may have that effect) It is rather glorifying God to the best of our ability...which is how he created us to be. But even when lost and helpless, and unable to do anything for ourselves, he came and died for us and paid the price. Those who help themselves are often times pictured as prideful.
In addition, as far as my knowledge is concerned, those who proclaim "God helps those who help themselves" merely borrow the idea of "God", they actaully wanted to say somehting like "上天帮助自助的人". But since there seems no difference to non-believers between 上帝 and 上天, plus the sentence itself is quite understandable, so people failed to dissern the really meaning behind the phrase and take it so for granted it's from Bible teaching.
Amen, thank God and my pastor.更多精彩文章及讨论,请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net
No, firstly, I searched the E-Bible but got nothing alike.
Second, I refered the question to my pastor, he answered and I paraphase:
No, nowhere in the bible does it say, God helps those who help themselves. Nor does it infer such a proverb. The whole message of the gospel is that God in his grace and mercy came to offer us what we could not do for ourselves. And our Christian lives start by believing there is nothing we could do to help ourselves, by that same principle we live. But that does not mean we do not strive for excellence, striving for excellence is not helping ourselves substantially (although it may have that effect) It is rather glorifying God to the best of our ability...which is how he created us to be. But even when lost and helpless, and unable to do anything for ourselves, he came and died for us and paid the price. Those who help themselves are often times pictured as prideful.
In addition, as far as my knowledge is concerned, those who proclaim "God helps those who help themselves" merely borrow the idea of "God", they actaully wanted to say somehting like "上天帮助自助的人". But since there seems no difference to non-believers between 上帝 and 上天, plus the sentence itself is quite understandable, so people failed to dissern the really meaning behind the phrase and take it so for granted it's from Bible teaching.
Amen, thank God and my pastor.更多精彩文章及讨论,请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net