Jesus and Satan were having an ongoing argument about who was better
on his computer. They had been going at it for days, and God was
tired of hearing all the bickering. Finally, God said, "Cool
it. I am going to set up a test which will take two hours and I
will judge who does the better job." So Satan and Jesus sat
down at the keyboards and typed away.
They moused. They did spreadsheets. They wrote
reports. They sent faxes. They sent e-mail. They
sent out e-mail with attachments. They downloaded. They
did some genealogy reports. They made cards. They did
every known job.
But, ten minutes before the time was up, lightning suddenly flashed
across the sky, thunder rolled, the rain poured, and of course the
electricity went off. Satan stared at his blank screen and
screamed in every curse word known in the underworld. Jesus
just sighed.
The electricity finally flickered back on, and each of them restarted
their computers. Satan started searching frantically screaming,
"It's gone! It's all gone! I lost everything when the
power went out!" Meanwhile, Jesus quietly started printing
out all his files from the past two hours. Satan observed this
and became even more irate. "Wait! He cheated!
How did he do it?!"
God shrugged and said, "Jesus Saves."