Legally Speaking
5 Some judge one day to be better than another, while others judge all days to be alike. Let all be fully convinced in their own minds. 6Those who observe the day, observe it in honor of the Lord. Also those who eat, eat in honor of the Lord, since they give thanks to God; while those who abstain, abstain in honor of the Lord and give thanks to God.Everything is indeed clean, but it is wrong for you to make others fall by what you eat; 21it is good not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything that makes your brother or sister stumble. 22The faith that you have, have as your own conviction before God. Blessed are those who have no reason to condemn themselves because of what they approve. 23But those who have doubts are condemned if they eat, because they do not act from faith for whatever does not proceed from faith is sin.
From Romans 14 NASB via the World Wide Study Bible
So what? God doesn’t really care specifically what we do, so long as our conscience is clear in doing it? We’re just supposed to do whatever we do in honour of the Lord, and make sure we’re not causing other weaker Christians to stumble? Everything is indeed clean! It sounds here like our conscience is our ultimate standard of what is right or wrong for us. Not what so and so ex Christian pop star thinks. Not what Grandma Friesen in the back row of the balcony who’s been a Christian for 75 years thinks. She’s not the weaker Christian (I hope). It sounds like it really is between us and God.
posted by Lauren @ Sunday, January 08, 2006
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