Sentences with phrase «of meats sacrificed to idols»

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).

Not exact matches

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.

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.»

In a city like Corinth, much of the meat offered at the butcher's shop had been 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.

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.

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 apostles sent a letter to the Gentiles that included the following: «It seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us not to burden you with anything beyond the following requirements: You are to abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals and from se - xual immorality.

«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.

It seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us not to burden you with anything beyond the following requirements: You are to abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals and from sëxual immorality.

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...)

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.

It says You are to abstain from food sacrificed idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals and from sexual immorality.

It's stated explicity in Mark 7:19, Romans 14:20, Colossians 2, and Acts 15:28 (with the proviso that they obstain from idolatry and thus anathema (food sacrificed to idols) and the meat of strangled and / or unbled animals — but compare that with Rom 14), and not only clearly implied but absolutely necessitated by the entire text of Galatians, Romans, and the Pastorals, and implicitly throughout the rest of Acts, the Pauline Corpus, and Hebrews.