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>>>>> "Jonathan" == Jonathan McNair <jmcnair@atcon.com> writes:

    Jonathan> At 09:37 AM 8/26/96 -0500, you wrote: There was a pastor
    Jonathan> friend of mine who had a new convert in his church. This
    Jonathan> new convert came to her pastor and asked him about
    Jonathan> smoking. He gave her a list of scriptures to read about
    Jonathan> defiling the temple of God, etc... She came back to him,
    Jonathan> told him she had read the scriptures and prayed about it
    Jonathan> and the Lord had told her it was alright to smoke, as a
    Jonathan> matter of fact HE had a cigarette himself from time to
    Jonathan> time. True story......
    >>
    Jonathan> Pastor J :-)
    >>  I would not permit such a man to be *MY* pastor.

    Jonathan> Hold on, the pastor didn't smoke. The lady told the
    Jonathan> pastor that the Lord told her that HE (the Lord = Jesus)
    Jonathan> had a smoke from time to time.

Your original statement suffered from sylepsis.

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