Foods
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2. What are the things offered to idols we must abstain from (Acts |
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They are
all those foods and drinks which are consecrated or dedicated or offered in
sacrifice to idols (statues or pictures representing beasts of the field,
trees, human beings and also heavenly beings). For instance, Hare Krishna –
the members of an eastern movement with Hindu roots, who are very famous in
Western Countries because they are dressed in orange and go out to the public
chanting and distributing literature - before eating they are used to
offering their food to their god Krishna with love and devotion in order to
receive it freely from their god itself and they have the habit of doing this
even with the food that they give freely to those who go to visit them.
Therefore, their foods are among the foods polluted by idols. In certain
remote parts of the earth there are some people who sacrifice animals to
their gods; Christians should abstain from these foods also. Then here in |
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We must
abstain from these foods because actually they are consecrated and offered to
demons and not to God, and the Scripture commands us not to have fellowship
with demons (1 Corinthians 10:20) lest we provoke the Lord our God to
jealousy and incur His punishment as the Israelites incurred His punishment
while in the wilderness, for they were deceived by the women of Moab into
eating the sacrifices of their gods and bowing down to their gods (Numbers
25:1-5). |