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Misnomers: God Helps Those Who Help Themselves.

Growing up in a geographical location where it would be considered the Bible Belt and living in Texas, you hear some misappropriated things claiming to be Scripture. Usually it’s something someone said in a sermon, and it’s been skewed. OR it’s something that’s been said so often, that people ASSUME it’s in the Bible. The one I heard most growing up? “God helps those who help themselves.”

Good grief. Not only is this phrase misapplied applied as the Word of God, its anti-God. Wait, what?

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