Sentences with phrase «meat sacrificed to idols»
A way to live like Jesus is to spend time with people in the places you can find them, but within the limits of your faith (don't eat meat sacrificed to idols if it makes you stumble — maybe try meet - ups with tax collectors) and within the limits of where God sends you (which could be to your unsaved parent in the next room, the mate next door, the homeless down the road, or the stranger overseas, or all of them at different times).
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Something like don't eat meat sacrificed to idols if it is a struggle for you.
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 lengthy discussion of meats sacrificed to idols in I Corinthians 8 — 10 is in harmony with the apostolic decree, and Paul says that the Corinthians are to give no offence to Jews (10:32).
While we no longer deal with meat sacrificed to idols, we do argue about art, politics and American Idol.
It is possible to receive meat sacrificed to idols and give thanks to God.
After deliberating, the church leaders concluded that it was not necessary for Gentile believers to be circumcised or observe the law except for a few things abstain from meat sacrificed to idols, abstain from sexual immorality, abstain from things strangled, and abstain from blood.
Most of these issues are modern parallels to the issue of eating meat sacrificed to idols which Paul writes about in Romans 14 and 1 Corinthians 10.
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.
We also take seriously Paul's discussions with the Corinthian church about freedom and responsibility in relation to meat sacrificed to idols.
Rather than reducing the Bible or our world to a debate about body parts (or meat sacrificed to idols), we will instead focus upon Paul's more important question of truth.
While the details of instructions regarding things like head coverings, meat sacrificed to idols, slavery, and pater familias may not apply to us today, the attitudes advocated by the authors most certainly do.
In the end, Passover and the other Jewish Feasts are like an issue that many Christians in the early church struggled with: meat sacrificed to idols (Romans 14).
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.»
Later in the same section of 1 Corinthians, however, Paul appears to shift ground and prohibit 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).
Meat sacrificed to idols was a live issue in the church for decades and was very much on the mind of John as he wrote his Revelation to the seven churches.
The stories of the gospels suggest that he wasn't too keen on things like commerce in the temple courts, meat sacrificed to idols, spirit - worship, superstition based in fear, and religious rituals undertaken for show.