1 Corinthians 8:12-13 (KJV) I’d Rather Be Like Paul

1 Corinthians 8:12-13 (KJV)
But when ye sin so against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ.Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend.

Paul was such a different sort of Christian than our modern believers. Paul had clearly taught that he/we could eat meats, even if they had been sacrificed to idols, so long as we did not eat them in worship of those idols. The idols are nothing. They exist only in the imaginations of pagan men and women. They have:

• No life
• No power 
• No influence 

other than that which their followers allow them. They to not:

• Eat
• Breath
• Walk
• Think or 
• Act 

They are benign. They are less than dead. They are nothing. Consequently, to eat the meat offered to them is no different than eating any other meat.

Except if eating that meat could be construed as worshiping the idol. In this case the eating of it would fall under the principle of 1 Thessalonians 5:22,
Abstain from all appearance of evil.And this – if eating the meat would offend another believer.

Paul willingly surrendered his right to eat the meat for the sake of another.

Today’s Christian would:

• Be angry that someone has a conviction that infringes on his or her right, 
• Call him a legalist, 
• Purposely do the thing that offends the brother, 
• Write a blog about how good it felt to exercise his liberty and then 
• Separate himself from the church that taught the “legalistic” doctrine

I would rather be like Paul.

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1 Corinthians 8:12-13 (KJV) I’d Rather Be Like Paul

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