E. None of the above
(Although I suppose "
C" is also accurate)
There are two passages in question. One is Romans chapter 14 and the other is 1 Corinthians 8.
Paul the Apostle in Romans 14 wrote:1Accept him whose faith is weak, without passing judgment on disputable matters. 2One man's faith allows him to eat everything, but another man, whose faith is weak, eats only vegetables. 3The man who eats everything must not look down on him who does not, and the man who does not eat everything must not condemn the man who does, for God has accepted him. 4Who are you to judge someone else's servant? To his own master he stands or falls. And he will stand, for the Lord is able to make him stand.
5One man considers one day more sacred than another; another man considers every day alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind. 6He who regards one day as special, does so to the Lord. He who eats meat, eats to the Lord, for he gives thanks to God; and he who abstains, does so to the Lord and gives thanks to God. 7For none of us lives to himself alone and none of us dies to himself alone. 8If we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord. So, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord.
9For this very reason, Christ died and returned to life so that he might be the Lord of both the dead and the living. 10You, then, why do you judge your brother? Or why do you look down on your brother? For we will all stand before God's judgment seat. 11It is written:
" 'As surely as I live,' says the Lord,
'every knee will bow before me;
every tongue will confess to God.' "[a] 12So then, each of us will give an account of himself to God.
13Therefore let us stop passing judgment on one another. Instead, make up your mind not to put any stumbling block or obstacle in your brother's way. 14As one who is in the Lord Jesus, I am fully convinced that no food is unclean in itself. But if anyone regards something as unclean, then for him it is unclean. 15If your brother is distressed because of what you eat, you are no longer acting in love. Do not by your eating destroy your brother for whom Christ died. 16Do not allow what you consider good to be spoken of as evil. 17For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit, 18because anyone who serves Christ in this way is pleasing to God and approved by men.
19Let us therefore make every effort to do what leads to peace and to mutual edification. 20Do 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 someone else to stumble. 21It is better not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything else that will cause your brother to fall.
22So whatever you believe about these things keep between yourself and God. Blessed is the man who does not condemn himself by what he approves. 23But 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.
Paul the Apostle in 1 Corinthians 8 wrote: 1Now about food sacrificed to idols: We know that we all possess knowledge.[a] Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up. 2The man who thinks he knows something does not yet know as he ought to know. 3But the man who loves God is known by God.
4So 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. 5For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as indeed there are many "gods" and many "lords"), 6yet 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.
7But 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. 8But food does not bring us near to God; we are no worse if we do not eat, and no better if we do.
9Be careful, however, that the exercise of your freedom does not become a stumbling block to the weak. 10For 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? 11So this weak brother, for whom Christ died, is destroyed by your knowledge. 12When you sin against your brothers in this way and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ. 13Therefore, 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.
So, what Paul is talking about here is that it was common in the Roman world, both in Rome and Corinth, to make sacrifices to the "gods." These sacrifices might consist of animals, wine, etc. A portion of the meat from the animal sacrifice might later be offered for sale in the market, or as it appears in Corinth, served in the temple of the god to whom the sacrifice was made.
For some newly converted Christians "whose faith is weak" the thought of eating meat sacrificed to the Roman "gods" was abhorrent. Some other Christians apparently thought that the "god" to whom the sacrifice had been made was no big deal, since they were confident that there was only one true God. Thus, those "whose faith was stronger" enabled them to eat the meat that had been offered to the "gods", while those "whose faith was weak" refrained and only ate vegetables.
I must admit, I have a bit of an unfair advantage in these Bible Trivia quizzes. I was a Sunday School teacher for over 10 years. I taught the Bible, cover to cover, quite a few times.
I don't really go to church anymore. I kind of got burned out in 2005 when I was:
Working full time (at my intense job),
Going to school part time (working on an engineering degree),
Helping take care of my father, who was dying of Alzheimer's; AND
Teaching Sunday School.
After I stopped going to church, I just never really had the desire to return. I haven't "lost my faith" by any means. I just don't want to go to church anymore.
So, I'll try to hold my "tongue" on the Bible quizzes and not be a spoiler anymore. I just couldn't help it this time. I guess it comes from being a competitive student/"teacher's pet" kind of guy most of my life. "Ooh, ooh, Mr. Oneeye! Mr. Oneeye! I know the answer! It's 'None of the above!'
Mr. Oneye: "Thank very much, again, ROF. Now, why don't you give one of the other students a chance to answer? Hmmm?"[/quote]...but it seemed like such a good idea at the time...
