Sentences with phrase «eating meat sacrificed to idols»

There are the essential core doctrines of the faith, (that we are saved by faith, that we are no longer under the law, for example) and then there are the details (eating meat sacrificed to idols, for example).

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.

Had Christians been forbidden to eat meat sacrificed to idols, they would virtually have had to become vegetarians.

Freedom to eat meat sacrificed to idols was limited only by the demands of love: «Take care lest this liberty of yours somehow become a stumbling block to the weak, lest your eating offend any brothers for whom Christ died.»

Not exact matches

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.

The formal letter contained the restriction of eating any food offered to idols - that is, meat put on the market by pagan priests after they had used it in their sacrifices.

A command not to Do (Do not associate any partner with Allah, do not make a prophet as son of Allah, do not say Allah has a son or daughter or wife, do not distinguish between prophets, do not make an angel as one of three (referring to trinity concept), do not disobey parents, do not kill, do not harm, do not steal, do not eat dead meat, do not eat meat from the animal was sacrificed in the name of Idols, do not drink, do not fornicate or adultery, do not look down to orphan and poor, do not spread the fasaad (trouble) on the earth and so on...)