Sentences with phrase «about meat sacrificed to idols»

Now on our scale of concerns, what to do about meat sacrificed to idols ranks somewhere below decisions about whether to sod or seed the yard, but in Paul's day eating meat was a question about the limits of Christian participation in pagan culture.

Not exact matches

While we no longer deal with meat sacrificed to idols, we do argue about art, politics and American Idol.

Paul's lengthiest discourse on Christian worship comes, oddly, in the midst of his answers to questions about eating meat sacrificed to idols, which he addresses in his first letter to the Corinthians.

«food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals and from sëxual immorality» hmmm... I thought much of the Levitical / Mosaic code was about just these things, blood and proper slaughtering techniques.