God Helps Those That Help Themselves, and other prideful lies of the self-sufficient The question from Linkedin was "Does the Bible teach that Christians should pull themselves up by their own bootstraps? " the short answer is no. As a matter of fact, the passage is not even in the Bible. Actually, Algeron Sidney an  English politician and member of the middle part of the  Long Parliament  wrote in his book "Discourses Concerning the Government" in 1680 these famous words "God help those that help themselves" but the actual question was " Does the Bible teach "God helps those that help themselves? " let us address this question. Here we must address not our opinion but what does the Bible say?  The only way we can be sure of what the Bible says is to go to the Bible   Psalm 127:1- 2  teaches “Except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman wakes but in v...