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Originally Posted by amishrockstar  I was recently introduced to the biblical "contradiction" of the Holy Spirit putting the requirements of abstaining from foods sacrificed to idols etc. on new believers in Acts 15:28-29 and the other portions of scripture that speak about how a Christian can and should eat things sacrificed to idols (sold in the market place; 1 Cor. 10:25; and 1 Cor. 8, etc.).
Any thoughts???
Thanks,
Matthew |
(Act 15:28) For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things;
(Act 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.
(1Co 10:19) What say I then? that the idol is any thing, or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is any thing?
(1Co 10:20) But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils.
(1Co 10:21) Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of devils.
(1Co 10:22) Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?
(1Co 10:23) All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not.
(1Co 10:24) Let no man seek his own, but every man another's wealth.
(1Co 10:25) Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, that eat, asking no question for conscience sake:
(1Co 10:26) For the earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof.
(1Co 10:27) If any of them that believe not bid you to a feast, and ye be disposed to go; whatsoever is set before you, eat, asking no question for conscience sake.
(1Co 10:28) But if any man say unto you, This is offered in sacrifice unto idols, eat not for his sake that shewed it, and for conscience sake: for the earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof:
I don't see the contradiction.
We are not to go eat at the temples of idols on purpose. If something is set before us we can eat it knowing that there is only one God while we give thanks to God for the meat. But if it is revealed that the meat was sacrificed to an idol we are not to eat.