Strange Things

[pyrephox]

I've passed this several times, but I'm only now remembering to put it up here. There's a auto place on a back road in Greenwood which uses its sign board to give a religious proclamation. This is not, in itself, unusual in rural South Carolina. However, the blurb goes:

He Is An On Time God
Yes He Is

...of all the things praiseworthy one might find about Yahweh, this is the first time I have heard his punctuality mentioned.

Comments

[fadethecat.livejournal.com]

That is...very odd.

Very odd indeed.

[cpip.livejournal.com]

I keep wanting to make that an anagram, or a secret code, or something.

[pyrephox.livejournal.com]

Mmm, intrigue.

If I go by one day and it says He is A Late God, then I'll be very, very concerned.

[cpip.livejournal.com]

"Come now, or you will be late."
"Late? Whatever for?"
"What is your name, human?"
"Dent. Arthur Dent."
"Late, as in the Late Dentarthurdent. It's a threat, you see..."

[mihrimah.livejournal.com]

Punctuality is next to cleanliness, which everyone knows is next to godliness.

Because the whole Exodus thing just wouldn't have happened if God had been late to the parting-the-Red-Sea party, and all sorts of things wouldn't have happened starting with the Jews never making it to Israel and moving on to (but not ending with) Jesus never having been born and creating Christianity to tell us how important punctuality is. Where would we be if God was late?

[stevenehrbar.livejournal.com]

This is the same God to whom a day and a thousand years are all the same, right? Who refuses to tell anyone in advance when judgment is coming, saying it'll sneak up like a thief in the night?

[heatherbeast.livejournal.com]

This is totally a passive-aggressive jab at people being late to services.

[pyrephox.livejournal.com]

That's probably it. It's just.../odd/. Especially to be in front of a auto repair shop.

[cythraul.livejournal.com]

... On time in the "a wizard arrives exactly when he chooses" sense. Maybe. If you squint right. o.o

[pyrephox.livejournal.com]

Well, yeah. I mean, if He controls time, then He is -- by definition -- ALWAYS on time. He can't be anything else, right?

[cpip.livejournal.com]

Sure He can. He's everything, so by definition, He can be late if He wants to.

(See the argument: Can God Make A Stone So Heavy He Cannot Lift It?)