Bible Question:
I see 4 items here - do you obey them? -meats offered to idols -blood -things strangled -fornication If you read what commandments in the NT, they go another step ... do you obey? |
Bible Answer: Yes, as Paul said if you knew the meat was offered to an idol and the pagan was observing you tell them no thanks. And preach Christ to them. Do not drink blood. (not that you would be tempted) but if you were a missionary and the natives dumped some goat blood out of the freshly slit throat of a sacrifice and offered you a cup. you should say No thanks. Things strangled, this also belongs to the idolatrous practices and fornication, they were always being expected to partake of the temple prostitutes. The christians were being told to withdraw from these ungodly and wicked idolatrous practices that there fellow gentiles were trying to get them to keep as a matter of thier gentile traditions. So not only were they told they did not have to keep the Law of Moses (Acts 15) but they were told to becareful not to keep the traditions of their idolatrous gentile fathers either. |