2,3"One man's faith allows him to eat everything, but another man whose faith is weak eats only vegetables. The man who eats everything must not look down on him who does eat..."
In other words this verse says we are not to condemn those who do not have levels of faith thought of as appropriate Christianity, and yet we criticize people's actions of little/more faith.
14"I am fully convinced that no food is unclean in itself. But if anyone regards something as unclean, then for him it is unclean"
this is why I believe it is possible to be in an evil world and still be able to do some good and possibly do more good than what others can do in a situation; Back in Bible days it was unclean to eat "pork" but even today we say it is wrong to do certain acts of indulgence, mainly sexual acts, anger...etc. To what extent are these acts a cultural phenomenon like pork eating instead of God's command to disindulge?
20"Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All food is clean, but it is wrong for a man to eat anything that causes something else to stumble"
This is saying that any act (back in the day food eating - can you imagine that pork made someone stumble??? haha) can cause someone else to fall into sin, and we are to help those people by not indulging in something when we actually know it's not a bid deal.
23"but the man who has doubts is condemned if he eats, because his eating is not from faith; and everything that does not come from faith is sin"
This shows it's important to not eat, if you lack faith, because that is sin. This goes back to scriptures on not making oaths (b/c you don't have enough faith to carry them out), and the only way to please God is in faith.
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