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NASB | 1 Corinthians 10:14 ¶ Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 Corinthians 10:14 ¶ Therefore, my beloved, run [keep far, far away] from [any sort of] idolatry [and that includes loving anything more than God, or participating in anything that leads to sin and enslaves the soul]. |
Bible Question:
I have been pondering 1 Cor. 10:14-22 for a while and I wanted some other takes on it. In this passage Paul is teaching on staying away from Idolatery. As you know eating food sacrificed to idols was one of the three prohibitions given to the gentiles by the council of Jerusalem in Acts 15:29. In the 1 Cor passage Paul in his warning to not get involved with idols uses the analogy to communion. In it Paul is saying eating food offered to idols brings us into the similar relationship with demons just as taking communion does with Christ. The Greek word Koinonia used here means communion, partaker, or to form a partnership. I guess you are wondering where I'm going with all of this. Well in Protestant church we view communion as ceremony of rememberance. This is based mostly on 1 Cor. 11:25 nowever this passage in 1 Cor 10:14-22 infers a much deeper meaning of communion. Just as eating food sacrificed to idols puts the eater into a relationship with demons, taking communion puts the participant into a relationship with Christ. It is this relationship and what really transpires in our spiritual lives when we take communion is something I think has been grossly overlooked or at least not fully taught. To the early church all indications are that the act we now call communion had a much richer, much fuller, much more important meaning. In fact Paul in 1 Cor 11:27 warns aboout taking of Communion in an unworthy manner. Many claim this means with unconfessed sin but I when read in connection with 1 Cor. 10:14-22 I now believe it means in an ignorant or manner where we don't realize the full significance of the action. Thoughts????? |
Bible Answer: Ed, In relation to Acts 15:29 it's important to note that animal sacrifice was practiced my many of the pagan religions of that day. I don't know if that has application today. But your reference to taking communion with unconfessed and I will say unresolved sin as well as an unworthy manner which can mean as you say in an ignorant manner is right on. I might say though that I don't know that any of us will fully understand the full significance of all this until we stand before God. I think there are times though when we take communion when we come to God with a blase attitude or where are hearts are simply not there then we definitely have a problem. In Him, lionheart |