Summary Of The Controversy In Early Christian Religion

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One of the controversies in the early church concerned meat which had been sacrificed to idols. In the Corinth (1 Cor 8:1-5) described that early Christians in apparently continues to attend banquets thrown by their pagan friends in honor of the gods. Some worried about whether they could eat meat from sacrificed animals (Perkins 164). Some believers, especially those with a related of idol worship, were still very sensitive concerning this issue and considered it morally wrong to eat meat sacrificed to idols. And to one with a weak conscience, meat taken from pagan temples was spiritually defiled (1 Cor 8:7). They were debated over what to eat causing a weaker brother to sin. Paul clarified in his teaching on this subject. He said that eating

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