Reply to "Praying for Rain"

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You are either an idiot or a lair.  What you write is still there, GB.  Let me refresh your memory:

You said, "Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue, a Christian, Prayed, to God, for help from the drought (....) The next day/night there was hardly a patch of land in the whole state of Georgia (....) it definitely rained at a time and on a day that it was not forecast to do so.

I left the decision to the reader.  I no more than anyone else can prove God answered the prayer as no one can prove He did not.  My personal feelings was that it is very possible that God provided the rain but I have no proof of that just as you have no proof to the contrary.  The setting of the day for prayer though was before the forecast was made so saying they picked a day account of the forecast is wishful thinking.

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Jesus, GB! You most certainly DID attribute this maracle to God!  I showed you total rainfall maps that clearly showed rain headed towards the entire southeast over the span of days.  I showed you data that proves that most of the state received 1/100 to 1/10th of an inch of rain - that is hardly a drop!  The extreme northern portion (NOT Atlanta) received up to 1/2 an inch.  That is significant rain, for sure, but nothing to get excited about.  God continued to punish the state all the way through spring. 

I don't see the drought as punishment from God anymore than I see the current drought in Texas as punishment from God.  God may have worked in a punitive way in the Old Testament, before Christ but we are also under a new Covenant today, one of Grace and although God can do what He desires or Wills I no more believe God works in that way today so the droughts or earthquakes or hurricanes whatever I do not consider as God's Wrath.  When God's Wrath next falls there will be no doubt as it being the Wrath of God and no doubts will remain for the unfortunate alive to see it, that God exist.  By that time though people will spend little time bickering about the trivial things that we do.    Just to bring this back around and address O No's saying that you, and I add others like you, take what is said and change it around then make comments as if the whole thing was originally said by the person you attribute it to I will remind you what you said:

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.

Note when I joined the discussion and posted it was in answer to Jimi's statement that prayer was the "least effective" thing you could do.  My answer was simply for several people in Georgia, including the Governor, they would differ for they prayed and it did rain so THEY would or could argue he, and you, are wrong.  That is what I was implying and not that GOD Did it and certainly not as you said "insist God called the 1/10th of an inch of rain upon Georgia".  You did change the meaning and intent of what I posted, as O No called you on.

You still insist that the entire state received rain without exception. I show you data that proves that part of the state did not receive and you STILL insist you are correct.  And now here you are saying you didn't say one thing while it's right up there in black and white!

Get it again, what I said, from actually being there in Georgia at the time, was that more than three local stations reported that same information and that being that NO County in Georgia, within the next days of the prayer, went without Rain of some measure.  It was no deluge but all counties did see a measure of rain as they and their meteorologist reported.   Now your charts and maps may tell you one thing but being there I know what I heard reported so either they all lied or your map is slightly inadequate or does not reference whatever trace amounts actually fell.

Do you not think all stations and people were not looking at results the following days?  The prayer issue was a big story there and IF it had not rained there would have been the same ballyhoo from all stations about it just like everyone reported that the Rapture didn't happy when our preacher out west called for it.   The same was with the forecast for rain only they did report all counties received rain so I'll take their word for it over your maps.  I'll also still say it could have been God sending the rain but I cannot make a dogmatic statement to that effect or would I but no one can be factual in making a statement that it wasn't.

Your religion has deluded you so much that you will completely sheild yourself from any and all contradictory evidence that you are wrong. That is just plain stupid.