This is why I say you are dishonest. YOU KNOW FULL WELL that I was protesting your insulting LANGUAGE to a man I consider a friend.
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Nope. Had no idea. The English language is a wonderful thing, Ono. You can use it to make your stance perfectly clear. Perhaps this is the root of our problem: You THINK you are making a clear point but actually are not?
GB insists God called the 1/10th of an inch of rain upon Georgia at the request of prayer. I dusputed that with overwhelming contrary historical evidence. He refused that evidence so therefore is an idiot.
You defended his stance by stating that I would not listen to his reasoning ("talking to a wall") so one can safely assume you are agreeing with his stance.
So, please clarify: Do you agree with his stance or mine?
Uno, whether you deliberately insert words into something a person says then react to those as if the person, themselves, said it originally I don't know. You are incorrect in what you attribute to me. You need to re-read my reply to Jimi as that is when I jumped in from my self imposed hiatus
It was Jimi's insistence that Prayer was the most ineffective thing you can do that I was addressing. It was YOUR insertion of the 1/10th of an inch of rain. FACT is that many places in Georgia, including the one where I lived, that received much more than the 1/10th that you state as if that fell uniformly over Georgia. I based my statements that NO County went without rain upon actual media reports the days following from stations in Atlanta and Macon that I received on my radio and heard while watching TV Weather the following days and although I cannot produce the article I'm fairly sure I also read it in the Atlanta Journal that no county went totally dry.
Did God do it? I fully believe if God wished to answer those prayers that He did and is capable. I do not though believe I made a pronouncement that GOD did this or that the rain was a fulfillment of the Governor's prayer as you indicate I did. O NO was right you do are are twisting what I wrote. Others on here have done the same with other topics and I no longer wish dialog with them and will not address her any longer. It is useless to do so. Is it useless to do the same with you?
You (Uno) state: GB insists God called the 1/10th of an inch of rain upon Georgia So where did I insist this? What reply? I certainly feel the rain very much could have been in answer to the prayers. What I enjoyed was the timing of it and how it made such fools of those who mocked the prayer. For those skeptics that so abound here please also note that the prayer was called for and conceived long before the forecast of that day so your statements as if the Governor Cherry picked his date to coincide with a favorable forecast just does not hold water.
My purpose for posting in this topic was to refute Jimi's statement (which I quoted) about prayer being the most ineffective thing. I used Georgia's Governor's prayer day as just an example. I do believe that it could be God answering his prayer but I do not believe, as you insist, that I insisted that it was. You do and did mis-state what I said and then reacted to it as if I did say just that.
I am also not getting into this why God answers some prayers and not others either. I have, in a prior post under this topic, addressed prayers that seemingly go unanswered, prayers by other Christians and non-Christians. You and other's personal references toward someone in a demeaning way only reflect your own inward inadequacies and inabilities to refer to specifics or admit that somewhere in these discussions that there are things beyond what you comprehend or what your own abilities permit. You only reduce your own selves when you demean you fellow forum members for if anything is 3rd grade or on that level it's the name calling that you somehow seem to feel elevates your status or your argument.
Frankly my grandchildren can compete in name calling if that's what you care to do or reduce these conversations to but as for me I don't see fit in responding to such insults so I don't. You want to call your charts as historical evidence as if that is to refute my statements that no county went without rain. My statements was made as a citizen of Georgia who listened to just those statements made on local media broadcast the days after it happened. Do I believe that those meteorologist who made those statements might have made them based on actual reporting from others within the state? Most likely. I know what I heard, living there and as a resident and on more than three separate stations or sources. I tend to accept that over your charts. Are we to assume now that the Weather charts are beyond reproach and totally accurate in all cases? If the charts say no rain fell then no rain fell no matter what the residents or people who lived there say.
Listen again ... Was the rain the next days an answer of the Governor's day of prayer? Possibly! It could have been or it may not have been. It didn't solve the drought but if I remember correctly the prayer was for rain. You non-beleivers and atheist want so badly to find some way to disprove God but you can't. God exist and proves it to His believers and saved each day. To you God doesn't exist because God is void to you. I do believe and accept this. You know not God therefore there is no God, at least to you and the other non-beleivers. What bothers you is that you cannot convince everyone else so as to somehow reinforce your thought there is no God and give it credence.
Sorry to say that there IS a God and He does answer some prayers including ones for forgiveness. Say there isn't all you want but that changes nothing in reality. Time will tell.