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I love the simplicity of Acts 2.42 at a local level... :)

Well, good! but I do like the very simple ones; sometimes it seems like there is a whole battery of signs out there that we are supposed to know the meaning of... o_O

Although it's mainly men now who use pipes, some women do smoke pipes also; I read someplace in fact that prior to the American Civil War it was very widespread for women to smoke pipes together after a church service.

To be accurate, Luther subsequently accepted its canonicity.

@"ByGrace" FYI, did you see this new thread? I saw this quote; I don't know if the person's observation would be accurate in your area? forums dot thewelltrainedmind dot com

Great it never became an addiction... :)

There's a big difference between Ephesians 2.9 and Ephesians 2.10. Both are true; but they are distinct.

Hi; bloviating is a word used by President Warren Harding when he was a newspaper publisher... :) Apparently it was his skill at it that set him on his course for high office...

@aspen FYI: Hi, Sir; saw your tattoo comments a while ago; started this thread and poll recently.

We have had a hot summer and short hair is certainly far more comfortable.

1 Corinthians 10.32 does refer to 3 distinct groups of people: Jews, Gentiles and the church of God. Hence the phrase often used: "All Scripture is for us; all Scripture is not about us".

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@"ByGrace" FYI, this is the thread and poll I mentioned when commenting on your post on smoking on the other thread.

Ephesians 2.9 :)

Great verse there; and yes this is a great dispensational reminder that all Scripture is indeed for us, but all Scripture is not about us... Good point!

Hi; there's also the passage with Peter's vision in Acts about declaring things clean...

Thanks; you've just given me an idea for a Bible study; over the weekend I was studying about intercession in the Old Testament.

Don't let ppl guilt-manipulate you; but if you can gradually cut down and even quit, more power to you.

I quit - and even recently started a thread about quitting - but I guess also the point is about Christian liberty, which is not something to be abused but it is there, Romans 14. And you're right; when one thinks just how massive a servant of the Lord C H Spurgeon was - and then wonders how...

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