Taking passages out of context is essentially the same as lying, unless you are unaware that is what you are doing. I give you the benefit of the doubt. This passage is talking about eating meat (food) sacrificed to idols, and deemed 'unclean" because of its religious use. It has nothing to do with moral practices. As you present the verses, virtually anything would be allowed, even theft and murder, so long as one did not esteem those thing "unclean," which you know is an obvious absurdity.
Hank
Taking passages out of context is essentially the same as lying, unless you are unaware that is what you are doing.
I've taken nothing out of context that I'm aware of.
This passage is talking about eating meat (food) sacrificed to idols, and deemed 'unclean" because of its religious use.
Not quite. What you're discussing is expressed explicitly in Acts, the previous book...
15:28 For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things;
15:29 That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.
There is also 1 Cor.
8:7 Howbeit there is not in every man that knowledge: for some with conscience of the idol unto this hour eat it as a thing offered unto an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled.
8:8 But meat commendeth us not to God: for neither, if we eat, are we the better; neither, if we eat not, are we the worse. 8:9 But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to them that are weak.
Nothing in Romans speaks of idol offerings while the other books do. Do you not think, perhaps, that Paul was speaking of foods deemed kosher and not kosher as in the similar passages about circumcision and uncircumcision? Pork, for instance, was not kosher. Many things are determined by man not to be kosher against the very precepts of G_d.
I believe you might consider your own warning. You've not taken things out of context, you've taken things out of the wrong books.