Read it again. It is a general statement. Paul is telling them why the man would be damned if he ate without faith. He would be damned for eating without faith because whatever we do without faith is sin. It isn't restricted to what we eat or drink.
You demonstrate the very worst in taking a quote out of context and trying to make it into a universal. The Scriptures should be read in context.
Look again, I was in context.
It's a good clue that a verse is being cherrypicked when it begins with an "And" and yet we are supposed to act as if it stands on its own.
You don't have to quote a whole chapter in order to be within context.
I respectfully disagree.
Your position makes good and evil subjective. Tending to the poor and comforting the afflicted, etc. are objectively good acts. They are not sins.
The Good Samaritan is reduced to nonsense if you believe this. His faith was incorrect and ill formed, but it is his actions which are praised.
Now, don't get me wrong, I understand that the reprobate can never merit Heaven. But that doesn't mean that he never does anything good.
Your interpretation of this verse sure does explain alot, though. It's good to have this difference out in the open.
Just because a heathen could earn salvation neither by caring for an orphan or by eating him, this does not mean that one is not good and the other bad.
In addition, the corollary to any action being taken without faith being automatically a "sin" is that anything underdone in faith is automatically a virtue. That's untrue as well.
SD