That Day will come as a trap on all the world

[LastPoet]

Hmmm, that kinda makes me want the rapture to really happen

We would still have all the other religion's idiot followers, but it'd be a start

[The Grand Nudger]

Farmland is great.
Only problem is, farming is knowledge and equipment intensive + you need some land.

I promise you it's not "knowledge intensive" (it's -labor intensive- gotta be willing to work and sweat), nor do you need -any- equipment....though you do need land... far less than most are likely to imagine, of course. Not that equipment or land - or even knowledge would be a problem...you could have purchased any of that.....but you went with the shiny baubbles, not entirely unlike the crows which grow fat on my largesse.

But ignore all of that, what mortgages Proff? There are only 2 days left....

[ShaMan]

Here's what you guys are all missing. The professor (along with all true christians) will be 'caught-up' in the clouds with Jesus. He'll then cleanse them and send them back to earth for the harvest. The story is just ramping-up. When the professor returns he'll be a threat to the AC because he'll have authority to strip souls away from the devil's hands for all eternity. The more souls the professor harvests, the slicker his glory mansion in the sky will be. Don't you guys see? This is going to be our last chance!

[The Grand Nudger]

So, he's just looking to pay his mortgage, eh?
(*sounds more like -his- last chance, to me)

[LastPoet]

nor do you need -any- equipment...

At least you need a hoe to plow... You can do it with your hands, but it wouldn't be the same thing

[professor]

Dialing the "Way Back Machine" to the late '50s and setting the search pad to S&H Green stamps=
You would receive Green stamps with purchases at participating stores as kind of a bonus (and hook to keep you shopping there).
They went into a little book.
When the book was full, you could truck off to one of the redemption centers (usually you had a bunch of them to turn in).
The Redemption center only took the books. Cash was out.

Maybe you perceive where this is going.
We are redeemed when we accept what Christ did for us- a gift (like the green stamps).
We do not present our own works (cash) as payment for what we want.
It will ever and always be insufficient.

[The Grand Nudger]

No-till baby. I was surprised myself that it worked as well as it does.
(I outta put up some pictures, just rows of veggies and fruit going right up through the grass and weeds, no rows, no bare earth.....no erosion.....)

[Crossless2.0]

Inverting your post, we get:

We are redeemed when we accept what Christ did for us- a gift (like the green stamps).

You would receive Green stamps with purchases at participating stores as kind of a bonus (and hook to keep you shopping there).

Yes, the hook. "You're sick (because we say so), and we have the cure. Step right up!"

It's a nice gimmick to keep those tithes rolling in.

[Jackalope]

nor do you need -any- equipment...

At least you need a hoe to plow... You can do it with your hands, but it wouldn't be the same thing

Paleolithic humans had an approximation to a hoe, and "needed" nothing else.

These days, we call 'em sticks.

[The Grand Nudger]

Oh man, I think I posted about that years ago, mit pictures. I did a little traditional "3 Sisters" thing with nothing other than a digging stick. Work that children would have done day in and day out. Damn near killed me. I still do "3 Sisters" - but I've got two drill tillers now (lol).