Saturday, November 05, 2022

Paul Harvey morphs into Ron DeSantis

 Paul Harvey's rather blasphemous speech about "God made a farmer" morphed into a Ron DeSantis commercial about God making Ron DeSantis a "protector" and "fighter".

In Harvey's speech, he says, "on the eighth day, God looked down on his planned paradise and said, 'I need a caretaker,' so God made a farmer."  Harvey then goes on to describe the hard work and life of a farmer.

However, Harvey seems to have forgotten what the Bible says in the book of Genesis.  First, God made a "garden" called Eden, and put man, Adam, into it.  So it seems, God first made Adam into a gardener, not a farmer (Genesis, 2:15).  But then God said that because Adam had eaten of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, 

"17 ... cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;

"18 Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;

"19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return."  Genesis 3:17-19.

Which pretty much describes what Harvey says about the life of a farmer.

In other words, God decreed Adam's fate to be a farmer after Adam had disobeyed God and was driven out of the garden of Eden.  The farmer's fate, then, is a constant reminder of man's disobedience of God. 

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