Reply #30: Or perhaps their prayers were keeping the rain away? [View All]

[hunter]

God: Stop bothering me! I'll decide when you get your rain.

My own kids were terrible pests when they wanted something. I didn't want to reward them for that, so I'd often wait until they stopped pestering me to get what they wanted if it happened to be something I was going to get them anyways. That's actually not my own theology, but it's a good monkey wrench to toss into these sorts of arguments. Unfortunately someone always takes it seriously, as if God could be an irritable dad.