1: Now as touching things offered to idols we know that we all have
knowledge Knowledge puffs up but love builds up 2: And if anyone think
that they know anything they know nothing yet as they ought to know 3:
But if any one love God the same is known of him 4: As concerning
therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice to idols we
know that an idol is nothing in the world and that there is no Theos
other but one 5: For though there be that are called gods whether in
heaven or in earth (as there be gods many and lords many)[1] 6:
But to us there is but one Theos the Father of whom are all
things and we for him and one Lord Jesus Christ by whom are all things and we
by him[2] 7:
However there is not in every one that knowledge for some with conscience of
the idol to this hour eat it as a thing offered to an idol and their conscience
being weak is defiled 8: But meat commends us not to God for neither if
we eat are we the better neither if we eat not are we the worse 9: But
take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumbling-block to
them that are weak 10: For if any one see you who has knowledge sit at
meat in the idol's temple shall not the conscience of them who are weak be
emboldened to eat those things which are offered to idols 11: And
through your knowledge shall the weak brethren perish for whom Christ died[3] 12:
But when you sin so against the brethren and wound their weak conscience you
sin against Christ[4]
13: Wherefore if meat make my brother to offend I will eat no flesh
while the world stands lest I make my brother to offend.
[1] Remember where Paul and the Corinthians
lived. They lived in the Roman Empire, which was Greek culture. Greek mythology
was considered real, Caesar was worshipped as a deity, they were surrounded by
the entire pantheon of Greek gods, and virtually every Roman home had an altar
to some god[s], with the father being the literal priest of that home.
[2] Complementarian (male
headship) theology teaches a hierarchal triad of gods, in which Jesus
[allegedly the eternal son] is under eternal subjection to the eternal Father. They
do this because they believe it shores up otherwise flimsy theology concerning
the eternal subjugation of women to men. This heretical teaching ignores the
fact that it is Jesus Himself who is the Eternal Father and does violence to the
eternal Godhead, which is ONE Isaiah
9:6 For unto us a child is born unto us a son is given and the
government shall be upon his shoulder and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor
The mighty God The everlasting Father, Isaiah 44:6 Thus
saith the LORD the King of Israel and his redeemer the LORD of hosts I am the
first and I am the last and beside me there is no God.
[3] This appears to be an allusion to loss
of eternal rather than physical life.
[4] Paul knows from
personal experience, that sinning against another Christian is the same as
sinning against Christ himself. Did not Jesus appear to him on the Damascus
Road, and ask, “And he fell to the earth and heard a voice saying unto him
Saul, Saul why persecutest thou me me?” Acts 9:4
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