Originally posted on Facebook on 11-16-22. All passages are RSV. Anyone can go directly to God in prayer at any time. I want to make that crystal Anyone can & should pray straight to God. But the Bible also teaches that the best way to get a prayer answered is to find the most righteous person around to pray it.
Nebuchadnezzar II (c. 630-c. 561 B.C. / r. c. 605-c. 561 B.C.) (1) was perhaps the most famous king of ancient Babylonia: largely because of his status as Archaeology and the Bible correspond, with regard to the dates of the siege and fall of Jerusalem (597 and 586 B.C.) and the date of the rebuilt temple (516 B.C.).
This will be my last column on transgenderism. I’ll leave that up to my colleagues, and there will be no shortage of stories about the subject in the future. But at this point, I could only find.