Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for June 03, 2024

Hey, at least you know God is thinking about you.

Makes me wonder how RAT got a sample of GOD’S handwriting to make the forgery from…Dan aka…

Rat’s Pig’s personal Dennis the Menace.

This must be the same guy who messed up Job’s life!

I smell a Rat authoring that message!

“Every time a bell rings, a pig gets bopped!”

Bad Rat!

Well, th’Lord’s been trying to smite me dead (well, the second was just goofing around) three times in the last five years.

At least pig is not in prison, so it could be worse.

No matter how bad it gets, somebody else will get it worse.

Awwww!

So, if you have a string of GOOD things happen to you, then……

That ain’t God’s plan for Pig. That’s Rat’s plan for Pig.

Pay no attention, Pig. We love you.

They say God doesn’t give you anything you can’t handle.

….. I wish he didn’t have so much faith in me.

I’m believing more and more, God loves us. But we’ve been on the earth for a long time and so, like a good parent, steps a side and lets us makes mistakes so we can grow. As a society we’re not two maybe in our late 20s early 30s.

Sure thing. And when crap happens, it’s all god’s plan? Not very compassionate, IMHO. Unless it’s an act of retribution. Will he be our retribution for folks who wrong us?

No, the nonexistent deity is not responsible for your life.

I can imagine God writing that with his tongue hanging out the corner of his mouth

Yeah, seems like God keeps hitting the “smite” button on the Celestial Computer.

Aw, that means you’re special!

Is this one of those instances where the word ‘badly’ is misused? Will Rat mess up Pigs’ life incorrectly or will Pigs’ life be messed in so it’s not a good life? This one always confuses me.

Sigh, Mondays are hard enough without that reminder …

Don’t be part of God’s plan. He has really deep anger management issues and is a serious sociopath, not to mention being a terribly needy narcissist.

He is anti-pig all the way.

I’ve been there. It turns out it was part of a plan. Go figure.

Well, now Stephan has moved on to blasphemy.

I know. It’s just a comic.

God is not the source of evil. Our rebellion against him is.

God is morally perfect.

Does he allow evil? Yes. And we don’t like it. But if he were to judge evil, we would not make the grade because of our rebellion. We are guilty before a holy God. We think that our standards are better than his. He is patient – giving us time to repent from our rebellion. None of our good works will save us from judgment. Only trusting in the completed and atoning work on Jesus on the cross and in his resurrection can we be forgiven from our sin.

Additionally, we don’t know his purpose in allowing evil to continue. But the burden of proof is too high for those who say that he does not allow it for some good reason.

Let the vitriol begin below:

Rat’s got yer back, Pig!

God’s handwriting looks just like Stephan’s. Interesting.

That’s what I love about believing in reincarnation: It’s actually my plan, and my plan only. : )

Getting your hands on God’s plan shouldn’t be so easy. . . .

Neil Simon tried to make a comedy out of Job’s ordeal called GOD’S FAVORITE. It was one of his few flops

If only Pig could understand that there isn’t a higher authority. It’s all crapshoot.

I occasionally encounter “cascade effects”. My back injuries make me clumsy and then I broke my little toe.

Poor Pig. He’s a good soul!

so you all believe that todays creatures EVOLVED from like dinosaurs but you still can’t explain away humans. The only planet with them.

How many thousands of people does God murder with guns every year?