"The Spirit of the Apostles is not a guide equal or greater than the Lord, thus Paul within his letters does not have as much authority as has Christ" (Carlstadt, Canonicis Scripturis (1520)
"The Spirit of the Apostles is not a guide equal or greater than the Lord, thus Paul within his letters does not have as much authority as has Christ" (Carlstadt, Canonicis Scripturis (1520)
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Jul 15, 2022
We address 3 questions.
1. Does Paul Teach Christians Can Eat Meat Sacrificed to Idols?
2. Does Paul in fact Teach Christians of “Strong Conscience” Know Better than those of “Weak Conscience” We Can Eat Meat Sacrificed to Idols?
3. Does Paul Teach if You Are “Weak” Minded On This, and You Eat Such Meat, You will be Destroyed – that is Lost?
Why would Paul feel the need to permit eating idol meat? In article "All meat comes from Sacrifice: Hellenic dietary laws on meet consumption,: at Hellenic Faith
There we read about the social norm required to eat meat sacrificed to idols or otherwise your food was unsanctified, and :
“[In] Marcel Detienne’s and Jean-Pierre Vernant’s book The Cuisine of Sacrifice among the Greeks…we are told that the presence of the divine sanctifies the consumption of meat, but only to the extent that we provide the Gods with sacrifices, where we offer the animal to the divine (Detienne & Vernant 1989, 25).”
If you ate unsacrificed food, you were considered barbaric and sacrilegious. That same article goes on, citing scholarly proof:
“It is an act through which something is placed into the possession of a God, and thus sacralized. Even Robert Parker, a scholar on Greek religion who is highly skeptical of the idea of the existence of any “Greek kosher,” admits that there exists a few references to the consumption of unsacrificed things as a type of sacrilegious and barbaric behaviour that is an affront the Gods in various inscriptions and poems (Parker 2011, 131-132).”
Where does Paul give this permission?
“25 “Eat whatever is [Mounce] sold in the meat-market, examining nothing for the sake of conscience. 26 For “The earth and the fullness of it are the Lord’s” [Ps 24:1]. 27 If one of the unbelievers invites you, and you want to go, eat anything being set-before you, examining nothing for the sake of conscience. 28 But if one should say to you “This is offered-in-sacrifice”, do not eat — for the sake of that one having disclosed it, and the conscience. 29 Now the conscience I mean is not the one of oneself, but the one of the other. For why is my freedom being judged[c] by another’s conscience? 30 If I am partaking with thanks, why am I being blasphemed [i.e., insulted] for that which I am giving-thanks?” (1 Cor. 10:25-30 Disciples Literal NT.)
Paul in 1 Cor. 8:4-12 is worse. This passage is even worse because it allows you to eat at an idol's temple without any concern doing so is wrong. (You apparently could get a free lunch or dinner after the sacrifice was over.) Paul's only concern is a believer is able to see you in the idol's temple who thinks eating meat sacrificed to an idol is wrong, not about the fact at all that you are eating at an idol's temple.
4 Therefore concerning the eating of the foods-sacrificed-to-idols— we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no God except one. 5 For even if-indeed there are ones being called gods, whether in heaven or on earth— as-indeed there are many gods and many lords— 6 yet for us there is One God the Father, from Whom are all things, and we are for Him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, through Whom are all things, and we are through Him. 7 But this knowledge [gnosis] is not in all people. But some, by the accustomed-habit of the idol until now, eat this food as food-sacrificed-to-an-idol. And their conscience, being weak, is stained [f soiled] [by not eating it – [Paul reversing Jesus / God saying defiles you] 8 But food will not bring us near to God—“we are no worse if we do not eat and no better if we do.” [Mounce] 9 But be watching-out that this right of yours does not somehow become an opportunity-for-stumbling to the weak [Mounce]
10 For if someone sees you, the one having knowledge, dining [Mounce] [‘reclining’ KJV] in an idol-temple, will not his conscience, being weak, be emboldened [Mounce] [built-up KJV] so as to eat the foods-sacrificed-to-idols?
11 For the one being weak is being destroyed [j ruined] by your knowledge— the brother for the sake of whom Christ died!
12 And in this manner sinning against the brothers and striking [k wounding] their conscience while being weak, you are sinning against Christ. (1 Cor. 8:4-12 KJV.)
Finally, on the same topic generally Paul writes:
“Accept anyone who is weak in faith, but don’t argue about doubtful issues. 2 One person believes he may eat anything, but one who is weak eats only vegetables. 3 One who eats must not look down on one who does not eat, and one who does not eat must not criticize one who does, because God has accepted him.” (Romans 14:1-3 Holman)
Jesus prohibited eating such idol meat twice: Rev. 2:14; 2:20. In Acts, three times Christians were told not to eat meat sacrificed to idols: Acts at 15:20, 15:29, and 21:25.
In sum, Jesus rejects Paul’s claims in 1 Cor. 8:4-13 and 1 Cor. 10:19-29.
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