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@GodsGrace "This is My body"; "is" in the sense of represents. Seeing as the one, true sacrifice is finished - (Hebrews chapters 9 and 10); "It is finished" (John 19.30) - then "this is My body" can be understood as a symbol which represents what happened at the Cross, rather than it's...

@Pearl For men they are often kind of more optional, although for many women they are more a part of their essential sense of how they are. Like, my wife does not consider herself dressed if she does not put on her face. Likewise, putting something through the ears is kind of similar, for many...

@Pearl Indeed; "It is finished" (John 19.30).

@Pearl Great concept there! :)

Thank-you, @Pearl It was in the OP but this is a great photo with the text in 14.27... :)

@Taken Memorable.... :)

I don't see the church in Matthew 24... We do need to be careful not to read things, dates, into Scripture which are not necessarily there.....

@Mantis (Relevant here also.) A lot of Christians seem to want to express the reason for the hope that is in them (1 Peter 3.15) though their ink. Acolyte said: ↑ All the young people with Bible verses tattooed that I have talked to seem to have had them done for evangelistic reasons...

@Pathfinder7 I have two books on Jonathan Edwards; he was associated strongly with the Great Awakening. So was George Whitefield. Also, I have a book about Asahel Littleton, associated with what was called the Second (Great) Awakening. It's good to be able to look back and read about...

Let's not get into ad hominem; whether or not you agree, you will be aware that those of a dispensational outlook can give plenty of Scripture for their convictions.

I don't believe in an an apostolic succession of seminaries or Bible colleges. As Robert Murray M'Cheyne said: "It is God's Word, and not man's comment upon God's Word, which saves souls." But I think our respective thinking is evidently so vastly different that profit may cease from...

@Pearl FYI.....Thought you might like this thread I just started today....

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Thanks @Mantis ....

@Mantis There is something about being close to nature, when one prayerfully and quietly meditate in the Word, right?

Hi @Truman ; so how do you think this thread that you started is coming along?