The Bible Comes to Life!

Ok, so yesterday my roommate Charity told me a question that someone brought up at church. The girl said her family are traditionalists, she is the only Christian. So they worship idols and sacrifice food to them. The girl asked if it's ok for her to eat the food sacrificed to the idols.

1 Corinthians 8--So then, about eating food sacrificed to idols: We know that an idol is nothing at all in the world and that there is no God but one. For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as indeed there are many "gods" and many "lords"), yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we live; and there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we live. But not everyone knows this. Some people are still so accustomed to idols that when they eat such food they think of it as having been sacrificed to an idol, and since their conscience is weak, it is defiled. But food does not bring us near to God; we are no worse if we do not eat, and no better if we do. Be careful, however, that the exercise of your freedom does not become a stumbling block to the weak. For if anyone with a weak conscience sees you who have this knowledge eating in an idol's temple, won't he be emboldened to eat what has been sacrificed to idols? So this weak brother, for whom Christ died, is destroyed by your knowledge. When you sin against your brothers in this way and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ. Therefore, if what I eat causes my brother to fall into sin, I will never eat meat again, so that I will not cause him to fall.

This passage talks specifically about this. In church in America, when this passage is preached, they say that alcohol is our "food sacrificed to idols". It's pretty crazy that here, it is LITERALLY food sacrificed to idols! I'm telling you, being here totally brings the Bible to life!