Using Romans 14 against vegetarians...

[TrustAndObey]

...is wrong.

Romans 14 is NOT about vegetarian Christians!

Please read its sister chapter...1 Corinthians 8.

Romans 14 is about early Christians being afraid to eat the meat offered to pagan gods.

:tutu:

[SoldierOfTheKing]

In those days, if the animal was slaughtered by a pagan, odds are it was sacrificed to a pagan god. In the very pagan city of Corinth that would make virtually any meat suspect. So these Christians were not vegetarian for the same reasons that SDA's generally are. Anyway, Romans 14 doesn't say that there is anything wrong with vegetarianism, it just abjures the vegetarians not to judge the brethren who do eat meat.

[TrustAndObey]

In those days, if the animal was slaughtered by a pagan, odds are it was sacrificed to a pagan god. In the very pagan city of Corinth that would make virtually any meat suspect. So these Christians were not vegetarian for the same reasons that SDA's generally are. Anyway, Romans 14 doesn't say that there is anything wrong with vegetarianism, it just abjures the vegetarians not to judge the brethren who do eat meat.

Right...it's a two-way street.

I must be "weak" because I wouldn't eat the meat offered to pagan gods either, but I bet that was a lively topic of discussion back then.

I imagine some were like "the pagan gods CAN'T eat it, so I'm gunna."

"Nooooooooooooooo!"

[PROPHECYKID]

That part was especially for the Gentiles and the both of you are correct. It has nothing to do with vegetarians nor clean and unclean meats. It was about their level of faith and how it affected their conscience in terms of what will defile them based on their former beliefs. And also about not judging those that are weak.

[TrustAndObey]

That part was especially for the Gentiles and the both of you are correct. It has nothing to do with vegetarians nor clean and unclean meats. It was about their level of faith and how it affected their conscience in terms of what will defile them based on their former beliefs. And also about not judging those that are weak.

Amen and amen.

[TrustAndObey]

This is probably just as good a place as any to mention this...

Do you know where saying "God bless you" after someone sneezes came from?

In the pagan custom they believed your "soul" would depart from your body when you sneezed and there was actually a ceremony they would do to make sure it was protected for the few seconds that it was "out".

Early Christians adopted that and would say "God bless and protect your soul" when someone sneezed. It got abbreviated into "God bless you" after a while.

I thought that was interesting.

I don't say it....I say "good health" instead. :)

[Jimlarmore]

Traditionally, I think this saying came about during the bubonic plague ( ms ) when the first symptoms of getting it was sneezing alot. Of course what you just said is also true.

God Bless
Jim Larmore