An Election Message from the Apostle Paul
The fight fell along cultural-political lines. One side was strongly committed to moral purity and avoidance of idolatry. The other side took a more pragmatic view, not quite so concerned about cultural contamination from pagan influences. Both had a good point.
I'm not talking about our dispute over whether Christians can, or should, vote for Trump. I'm talking about the schism in the early church about whether Christians were allowed to eat meat sacrificed to idols.
The issue was that in some of the pagan cities like Corinth and Rome, what we think of as the restaurant industry and the pagan temple system were one and the same. So, eating meat meant one was eating meat which had been sacrificed to idols. People wanted to eat meat, but they also wanted to be faithful. Some didn't think they could be faithful and eat meat, too. Some thought it was just fine, and the two groups fought about it.
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