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Two Preparations for Death

 I've been reflecting on my anxiety attack, and how I thought I was moments away from death. It wasn't the first time I thought I was going to die. The other time was when I got into my car crash. There is one major difference in my experience of both those events. The first, in my car crash, I was ready to die, and accept death. It's cool to think how fast my brain went through thoughts in a split second. Some of those thoughts were, "Oh no" "Oh well" "I didn't get to say goodbye" "I'm ready for this" "I'm confident in my salvation" "I'll see Jesus and be happy".  In my second anticipation of death, these were the thoughts that were going through my mind, as I lay on the floor, listening to my sister panic as she called the paramedics, "Oh no" "No no no" "I'm not ready" "I've done so many things I can't take back" "I'm going to hell"...

What Does The Bible Say About Transgenderism?

A friend asked me for biblical data concerning transgenderism. Here is what I wrote. I just copy-pasted from instagram, so, no spacings. I'll come back and edit later.  Okay, so, throughout the Bible, we have the warnings and condemnations about temple prostitutes. You see it in Deuteronomy 23:17-18, 1 Kings 14:24,15:12 22:46 and 2 Kings 23:7. So, you need to know some background, but these prostitutes were also trans (we'll just say trans for now, not trans-vestite, gender, or sexual). How do we know this? So from the textbook "Religion in Ancient Mesopotamia" it says this: "Since homosexual love was perfectly tolerated in the land, provided that it did not harm anyone, it should not be surprising to see professional homosexuals here, as if to balance the 'religious' prositutes mentioned above, the assinu, the kurgarru, the kulu'u, and even, on occasion, the kolû, who had rather a bad reputation in this regard, although we do not really know why. Nor...