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To: Shimmer1

1 Corinthians 8:4-9

4 So then, about eating food sacrificed to idols: We know that an idol is nothing at all in the world and that there is no God but one. 5 For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as indeed there are many “gods” and many “lords”), 6 yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we live; and there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we live. 7 But not everyone knows this. Some people are still so accustomed to idols that when they eat such food they think of it as having been sacrificed to an idol, and since their conscience is weak, it is defiled. 8 But food does not bring us near to God; we are no worse if we do not eat, and no better if we do.


34 posted on 11/22/2011 7:59:07 AM PST by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: thackney

A Biblical counter ~

ACTS 15:29, “You are to abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals and from sexual immorality. You will do well to avoid these things.”

ACTS 21:25, “As for the Gentile believers, we have written to them our decision that they should abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals and from sexual immorality.”


94 posted on 11/22/2011 11:46:40 AM PST by My hearts in London - Everett (Still searching for the new tagline!)
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To: thackney
There's also this ~

1 Corinthians 10:20-21

...the sacrifices of pagans are offered to demons, not to God, and I do not want you to be participants with demons. You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons too; you cannot have a part in both the Lord's table and the table of demons.

97 posted on 11/22/2011 12:00:36 PM PST by My hearts in London - Everett (Still searching for the new tagline!)
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