@Bi0Dr01d

10 months ago

I'm not saying that this interpretation below is true or false. I'm only communicating a concept or principle that I'm interpreting from the text, and a person should pray about it and take it to God for either confirmation or rejection of this point below.

This scripture seems relevant. Although this scripture is talking about eating food sacrificed to idols, it's showing that although a person is eating the foods that he ought not to eat, because his conscience is strong in God because he knows that he has not deliberately eating toward the worship of idols but for his own sustenance, then it isn't necessarily a sin in this case, and the scripture says that the food is cleansed through prayer and Thanksgiving.

However, if There is a person who is also a believer but doesn't have this knowledge or understanding concerning the food you're eating and sees on the surface that you are eating food offered to idols but isn't discerning your understanding that you're not doing it deliberately for the worship of idols, and he is emboldened to eat those things with the wrong mindset, having somewhat of a guilty conscience and acting on that guilty conscience due to not fully understanding, then his act might count as sin whereas the person who eats with understanding in a strong conscience may not be sinning, but because the man with the weaker conscious is being influenced by the man with a stronger conscience, then the man with the stronger conscience is still causing his brother to sin.

This seems to imply that if the food is cleansed by God either physically or spiritually, then it is cleansed, which also implies a secondary meaning to the book of Acts chapter 11 regarding Peter's vision. What God has cleansed we should not call "common".

1 Corinthians 8:4-13
¶As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one.
5For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be gods many, and lords many,)
6But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.
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.
8But meat commendeth 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 stumblingblock to them that are weak.
10For if any man see thee which hast knowledge sit at meat in the idol's temple, shall not the conscience of him which is weak be emboldened to eat those things which are offered to idols;
11And through thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died?
12But when ye sin so against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ.
13Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend.

Thus, it seems to imply that if a person isn't sure of something but his conscience is telling him that he ought not to do it, then even if his conscience is wrong in this case in which the action is okay, because he is acting against what he believes to be right and is not acting in faith, it still may count as sin. However, If a person has knowledge and is acting on faith and isn't disobeying his conscience in the action, this might not be sin.

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