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    boys v girls - Part 4

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    How do you know what the Christian faith is?

    Well, I would advocate from the other perspective :) : the Scriptures and prayer are what I would see as the very essence of church activities. It's interesting that Acts 2.42 has four basic activities mentioned for the early believers in the time of the Apostles: the Apostles' doctrine, and...
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    How for your first earring(s)?

    I think a pair of simple looking studs are a perfectly good and acceptable gift for parents to give to an adolescent son for his b-day or Christmas, if indeed this is what he wants. This might not have been my viewpoint many years ago but it certainly is now, anyway. This custom might not be...
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    How do you know what the Christian faith is?

    Anyone with a church association who refers to God's Word should be a 'fellowhelper to the truth' (3 John), and not someone who stands above the text of Scripture and imposes his own meaning to it. You can see I take a Protestant approach: exegesis (getting the meaning out of what the text of...
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    How for your first earring(s)?

    You're right about not forming judgments about people on such a basis! :) Regarding the other part of your comment, I guess you yourself evidently didn't have a son who wanted earrings; nor did I, but I do happen to think it's perfectly natural these days both for a boy or young man to want...
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    How do you know what the Christian faith is?

    Even the Church of Rome agrees what are the Canonical books. The fact that some groups also use the Apocryphal books does not detract from the Canonical status of the books of the Bible. It's a question of recognizing their inherent Divine authority rather than holding that some human religious...
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    I think I saw a bobcat?

    Okay, thanks. I heard that it all happened in Australia rather suddenly after a surfer type went bezerk.
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    How for your first earring(s)?

    Years ago men and boys didn't used to have it done, anyway. Though maybe you have family members who went through the earring phase. Now men and boys often do and I for one don't have a problem with it. It's all rather subjective.
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    How do you know what the Christian faith is?

    As a Protestant I have to say that it is what God's Word teaches, surrounding the Person and Work of the Lord Jesus Christ as revealed in Scripture. The Epistle to the Hebrews has an especially clear description of His blessed Person and Work, in all His glorious offices and titles and work at...
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    How for your first earring(s)?

    MoreCoffee: I see you never went through the earring phase! did you? :) Personally I think that for youngsters today it's pretty benign for the most part when young men do it.
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    I think I saw a bobcat?

    So what did you make of John Howard's gun laws? I guess that ppl who live in the Outback are inherently likely to need to have something to defend their families with from the hazards of wild animals. But I guess there are various sides to the question.
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    I think I saw a bobcat?

    One of the hazards of the mysterious and fascinating Outback, maybe... :)
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    I think I saw a bobcat?

    I think in Australia the equivalent creature would be a dingo.
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    Any Australians?

    I think that in some ways WA would probably be a good environment to raise a family. My wife and I have always been on our own, but if things were different Australia and maybe especially WA would have been a quite good environment for raising kids from a number of perspectives. (Thanks for...
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