This is Amy Hall, and thank you so much for joining us on the podcast today.

Actually, for the podcast today, Greg, you're the only one joining me on the podcast today.

I just realized that.

Oh, people are fussing about pronouns.

Now we're fussing about prepositions.

All right, all right.

What do you got?

All right.

So this first question, actually, it's two questions together.

It comes from Johnny.

As I was putting my three-year-old to bed, he asked me, why did the Sadducees and Pharisees want to kill Jesus? And then, why doesn't God say anything when we pray to him? Apparently, he's been absorbing more info than I thought. How would you answer these?

Well, there are two questions there. And let me just take the second one first, and that is it presumes what one understands the word

answer to be.

I think the boy thinks that if we talk to God, God would talk back to us. And so the answer

will be God saying something in response to the prayer, yes or no, for example. And that's

not the way it works. God doesn't have those kind of conversational relationships with us

characteristically. There's no biblical support

for that notion.

He can't intervene and do whatever he wants, but in terms of as a standard element of prayer,

people call this listening prayer, we talk and then God responds.

There's no basis in a single verse in 66 books of the Bible for

this kind of thing. And it has applicational problems. But in any event, I would just explain to

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