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You seem to imply that only priests can glean a thorough equipping from scripture. That's a shame.

With regard to the OT vs the NT, I fail to understand what that has to do with my original train of thought. With that in mind, however, the verse in Timothy most certainly COULD be referring to the whole of scripture as we know it today - since when is God bound by the limits of time? HE knew what would become canon and could very well have divinely inspired Paul to write this with the whole of scripture in mind.

Anyway, hope you have a great afternoon and thanks for the response.

since when is God bound by the limits of time?

Exactly. So today we can pray for someone who died last year. A prayer that God will show mercy on them by giving them the gift of repentence before they died. To flatly say that we can not pray today for someone who died yesterday is to say that it is too "late" for God to do anything about it -- that God is constrained by time.