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What’s Wrong With “God Helps Those Who Help Themselves”?
What’s Wrong With “God Helps Those Who Help Themselves”? Paul Sadler
Jay Leno once conducted a series of interviews with random people on the street and asked them to name one of the Ten Commandments. One of the most common responses was, “God helps those who help themselves.” That’s troubling because not only is it not one of the Ten Commandments, but it’s not in the Bible at all.
Where did it come from anyway?
You hear echoes of the saying in one of Aesop’s fables where a man calls to the goddess Athena to ask for help during a shipwreck, and she tells him to try swimming first. There’s…
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