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nevermind.

Not worth it.

Just keep skipping church and pretending like you can't find one good enough for the likes of you.

Then no pastor will have to deal with your mania.

 

No, the text along with the parallel text, I Corinthians 8, makes it clear that the REASON the weaker brother's faith is weak is because of his deficiency of knowledge as I pointed out earlier.

No, the problem is their THINKING.

That's what the words "esteemeth" and "persuaded" and "regardeth" mean.

 

Paul could not have been clearer that the one is NOT weaker is the one with KNOWLEDGE.

1Now concerninga food offered to idols: we know that “all of us possess knowledge.” This “knowledge” puffs up, but love builds up. 2If anyone imagines that he knows something, he does not yet know as he ought to know. 3But if anyone loves God, he is known by God.b

4Therefore, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that “an idol has no real existence,” and that “there is no God but one.” 5For although there may be so-called gods in heaven or on earth—as indeed there are many “gods” and many “lords”— 6yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist.

7However, not all possess this knowledge. But some, through former association with idols, eat food as really offered to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled. 8Food will not commend us to God. We are no worse off if we do not eat, and no better off if we do. 9But take care that this right of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block to the weak. 10For if anyone sees you who have knowledge eatingc in an idol’s temple, will he not be encouraged,d if his conscience is weak, to eat food offered to idols? 11And so by your knowledge this weak person is destroyed, the brother for whom Christ died. 12Thus, sinning against your brotherse and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ. 13Therefore, if food makes my brother stumble, I will never eat meat, lest I make my brother stumble.

How is the conscience weak? Because they do not have the KNOWLEDGE.

The warning is to not #1 let your accurate knowledge puf you up and #2 not to let your accurate knowledge which the weaker brother does not possess be a stumbling block for the weaker brother.

You keep using this word "education" as if I purporting that higher education is the only way to obtain knowledge that makes one stronger.

I have said no such thing.

 

KNowledge is the issue in the text.


Stronger brethren HAVE the knowledge and must be careful with it.

Weaker brethren do NOT have the knowledge and that is what makes them weaker.

 

There is no need for "at your house" in the text. God given common sense dictates it.

Thou shalt not commit adultery did not require "while breathing" for us to understand it.

YOU CANNOT OFFEND ANYONE IF THEY ARE NOT MADE AWARE OF ANYTHING YOU DO.

In Siberia there is a man who believes it is a sin to drink coffee. Does that mean that Aaron should never drink coffee anywhere for the rest of his life?????

 

Paul said KNOWLEDGE and you are ignoring it.

He said knowledge was the issue.

Paul said that.

Paul did.

Paul- the Apostle.

There... in the text.

Repeatedly.

Over and over again... Paul said it.

Paul... repeatedly.

Knowledege... that was the word Paul REPEATEDLY used to differentiate the weaker brother from the stronger brother.

Knowledge. There is it in the text. Anybody with a first grade education can see it.

Knowledge.

Paul said, "We have KNOWLEDGE..."

Paul said it several other times in that text too.

Knowledge.

Knowledge.

Got it yet?

 

By revelation.

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