1Co 8:1\u00a0 Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth.\u00a0<\/span>
\n1Co 8:2\u00a0 And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.\u00a0<\/span>
\n1Co 8:3\u00a0 But if any man love God, the same is known of him.\u00a0<\/span>
\n1Co 8:4\u00a0 As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one.<\/span>
\n1Co 8:5\u00a0 For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be gods many, and lords many,)\u00a0<\/span>
\n1Co 8:6\u00a0 But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.\u00a0<\/span>
\n1Co 8:7\u00a0 Howbeit there is not in every man that knowledge: for some with conscience of the idol unto this hour eat it as a thing offered unto an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled.\u00a0<\/span>
\n1Co 8:8\u00a0 But meat commendeth us not to God: for neither, if we eat, are we the better; neither, if we eat not, are we the worse.\u00a0<\/span>
\n1Co 8:9\u00a0 But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to them that are weak.<\/span>
\n1Co 8:10\u00a0 For if any man see thee which hast knowledge sit at meat in the idol’s temple, shall not the conscience of him which is weak be emboldened to eat those things which are offered to idols;\u00a0<\/span>
\n1Co 8:11\u00a0 And through thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died?\u00a0<\/span>
\n1Co 8:12\u00a0 But when ye sin so against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ.<\/span>
\n1Co 8:13\u00a0 Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\nLet’s now review those verses in detail.<\/p>\n
1Co 8:1\u00a0 Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth.\u00a0<\/span>
\n1Co 8:2\u00a0 And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.\u00a0<\/span>
\n1Co 8:3\u00a0 But if any man love God, the same is known of him.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\nThe Elect of God knows fully well that with practised caution, they can socialise with those who eat spiritual food offered to idols (unclean doctrines), since they are given to know truth from error.\u00a0 However, an innocent, wide-eyed babe keen to learn of Christ’s doctrines is oblivious to the nuances of error until he understands all the keys to the kingdom of heaven <\/span>(Luk 8:10, Mat 16:19)<\/span>.<\/p>\nIf we genuinely “love God”, we will be keeping by living with our entire hearts all the commandments of Christ. Yet, suppose we are a babe in Christ. In that case, we are still learning and ‘knoweth very little’, and just maybe interacting unwittingly with the synagogue of Satan, his temple, not knowing that our weak conscience is being infected with the mycelium of lies with someone who “knoweth nothing <\/span>yet as he ought to know<\/b>“!<\/span><\/p>\n1Jn 2:2\u00a0 And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the <\/span>[mycelium-like] sins of the whole world<\/u>.<\/b>
\n1Jn 2:3\u00a0 And hereby we do know that we know him, <\/span>if we keep his [Christ’s spiritual] commandments.<\/b><\/p>\n1Jn 2:4\u00a0 He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.<\/span>
\n1Jn 2:5\u00a0 But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.\u00a0<\/span>
\n1Jn 2:6\u00a0 He that saith he abideth in him <\/span>[Christ’s temple within] <\/span>ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.<\/span><\/p>\n1Co 8:4\u00a0 As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that <\/span>an idol is nothing<\/span> in the world, and that there is none other God but one.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\nIn the Old Covenant, the Lord’s people were forbidden to eat unclean food, represented in the New Covenant as doctrinal falsehoods <\/span>(Lev 11:1-47)<\/span>. Since Christ\u2019s coming, eating of false doctrines defiles the temple which we are <\/span>(Lev 11:43). \u201cTo make a difference between the unclean and the clean, and between the beast that may be eaten and the beast that may not be eaten\u201d <\/span>\u2013 Lev 11:47.\u00a0If we are aware that we are communicating with the synagogue of Satan, we can eat of his spiritual \u2018mushrooms\u2019 and be nourished by discerning truth from error and not be hurt by deadly things <\/span>(Mar 16:14-20)<\/span>. However, outwardly, as very recently happened in Victoria, Australia, a poor wretched lady was given by the Lord via Satan\u2019s hand to kill several of her in-laws with death cap mushroom stew. She, like Sin\u00e9ad O’Connor in the Conscious Study number 12, will realise in the Resurrection to Judgment that they, like Job and hundreds of other Biblical examples, were tools to effectively train the Lord\u2019s Elect to come into full spiritual knowledge. Far be it that we denigrate that lady, Sin\u00e9ad, Judas or ourselves in different humiliating circumstances since \u201call things are yours\u201d, the Elect of God.<\/span><\/p>\n1Co 3:21\u00a0 Therefore let no man glory in men <\/span>[despise death cap lady, Sin\u00e9ad or Judas thus glorifying our unwitting self-righteousness]. For all things<\/u> are yours;<\/b>
\n1Co 3:22\u00a0 Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; <\/span>all are yours;<\/b>
\n1Co 3:23\u00a0 And ye are Christ’s; and Christ is God’s.<\/span><\/p>\nRom 14:1\u00a0 Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations.\u00a0<\/span>[Be pleasant without heated disputes]<\/span>
\nRom 14:2\u00a0 For one believeth that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, eateth herbs <\/span>[or even death caps, and maybe spiritually die]<\/span>.
\nRom 14:3\u00a0 Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not; and let not him which eateth not judge him that eateth: for God hath received him <\/span>[he is the Lord\u2019s workmanship in Christ\u2019s timing and order of resurrection].<\/span>
\nRom 14:4\u00a0 Who art thou that judgest another man’s servant? to his own master he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be holden up: for God is able to make him stand.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n1Co 11:31\u00a0 For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.<\/span>
\n1Co 11:32\u00a0 But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.<\/span>
\n1Co 11:33\u00a0 Wherefore, my brethren, when ye come together to eat, tarry one for another <\/span>[Wait patiently for those weak in the faith no doubt having been poisoned by Babylon\u2019s death cap doctrinal lies].\u00a0<\/span>
\n1Co 11:34\u00a0 And if any man hunger, let him eat at home; that ye come not together unto condemnation. And the rest will I set in order when I come.)<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\nEvery person is the Lord\u2019s workmanship in His timing and order. We don\u2019t drag them with our wildly passionate hallucinatory psilocybin-like doctrines and our imagined glory.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nRom 14:5\u00a0 One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. <\/span>Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.<\/b>
\nRom 14:6\u00a0 He that regardeth the day, regardeth it unto the Lord; and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it. He that eateth, eateth to the Lord, for he giveth God thanks; and he that eateth not, to the Lord he eateth not, and giveth God thanks.<\/span>
\nRom 14:7\u00a0 For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself.<\/span>
\nRom 14:8\u00a0 For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord’s.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\nContinuing in 1 Corinthians 8:<\/span><\/p>\n1Co 8:5\u00a0 For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be gods many, and lords many,)\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\nThe Body of Christ always needs to walk circumspectly before the weak and kings of the world in all humility, as did Jesus, since,<\/span><\/p>\nPsa 82:6\u00a0 I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are <\/span>[becoming]<\/b> children of the most High <\/span>[the creation of God]<\/span>.<\/p>\nRev 3:14\u00a0 And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nJoh 10:34\u00a0 Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\nOf course, we all start out as the Serpent\u2019s seed, the god, he, and we, being the gods of this world, sitting in the temple of the one and only God, effectively stating that we are (prematurely) God.<\/span><\/p>\n1Co 8:6\u00a0 But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.\u00a0<\/span>
\n1Co 8:7\u00a0 <\/span>Howbeit there is not in every man that knowledge<\/span>: for some with conscience of the idol unto this hour eat it as a thing offered unto an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\nHowbeit that, Babylonian Christians do not have that knowledge of 1 Corinthians 8:6 because they are given as we also painfully were given to believe a multitude of lies. If we, too, eat an unclean doctrine and are weak in understanding, there is hopefully only a temporary chance we are defiled. The Body in constant unity in Christ <\/span>is a multitude of counsel<\/b> that will always result in discovering and upholding Christ\u2019s word on any matter.<\/span><\/p>\n1Co 8:8\u00a0 But meat commendeth us not to God: for neither, if we eat, are we the better; neither, if we eat not, are we the worse.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\nVerse 8 means that knowledge without walking in its spiritual application is utterly useless and will land us in the Lake of Fire.<\/span><\/p>\n1Co 8:9\u00a0 But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to them that are weak.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\nChrist\u2019s Bride has deep compassion for her 1,000 sisters, the spiritual wives of Solomon\u2019s court in Babylonian Christianity. She is careful not to awaken the love that they think they have for Solomon, who represents Christ, in case Christ is irksomely obligated to save.<\/span><\/p>\nSon 8:4\u00a0 I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up<\/span>, nor awake<\/b> my<\/i><\/b> \u00a0<\/span>[<\/span>\u201cmy\u201d <\/span><\/i>is in italics as an imagined illumination by the 1560\u2019s translators for understanding] <\/span>love<\/b>, until <\/span>he please<\/b>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\nIf, out of our fervor or impatience, we awaken spiritual truth to our sisters in Babylon, we effectively usurp Christ\u2019s authority to drag whom He pleases to be a joint in His Bride. We become a stumbling block to Christ and the potential babe or one cursed to be in the Resurrection to Judgment. Rather, we honor and respect our Husband and wait until He pleases to provide understanding in one of the two resurrections.<\/span><\/p>\nAt this point, we should fully understand the meaning of the theme verse of <\/span>1 Corinthians 8:10.<\/span><\/p>\n1Co 8:10\u00a0 For if any man see thee which hast knowledge sit at meat in the idol’s temple, shall not <\/span>the conscience of him which is weak be emboldened<\/span> to eat those things which are offered to idols;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\nAs such, we now know that through the flesh of Adam, we all are inherently emboldened to eat in error every unclean doctrine. Four thousand years of emboldening firmly landed us in Babylonian Christianity, fearlessly proclaiming the \u2018coffee n doughnuts\u2019 doctrine of <\/span>\u2018Joosus luvs us and died for our sins so that we can blithely live in peace and delusional ignorance imagining that we are saved.\u2019 <\/span><\/i>Conversely, the Lord\u2019s Elect are emboldened positively without fanfare to eat all food clean and ceremonially unclean since both are spiritual light to discern truth from error.<\/span><\/p>\nPsa 139:12\u00a0 Yea, the darkness does not hide from You; but the night shines as the day; as is the darkness, so is the light to You<\/span>.<\/p>\nJn 4:1\u00a0 <\/span>Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God:<\/b> because many false prophets are gone out into the world.<\/span>
\n1Jn 4:2\u00a0 Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:<\/span>
\n1Jn 4:3\u00a0 And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.\u00a0<\/span>
\n1Jn 4:4\u00a0 Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.\u00a0<\/span>
\n1Jn 4:5\u00a0 <\/span>They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them<\/u>.<\/b>
\n1Jn 4:6\u00a0 We <\/span>[God\u2019s Elect]<\/b> are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. <\/span>Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\nOne of the most damnable acts any Christian can do is to ply a brother with wine with the intention to view his nakedness and then, while he is in his liberal and weakened state of mind, feed him a hazily understood spiritual concept masquerading as the truth.<\/span><\/p>\nHab 2:15\u00a0 <\/span>Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness!\u00a0<\/b>
\nHab 2:16\u00a0 Thou art filled with shame for glory: drink thou also, and let thy foreskin be uncovered: the cup of the LORD’S right hand shall be turned unto thee, and shameful spewing shall be on thy glory.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\nIn those circumstances, a weak one has no spiritual defence and utterly, and in spiritual child-like innocence, trusts the more senior one who is supposedly grounded spiritually. That spiritual babe, now intoxicated, becomes innocently \u2018<\/span>emboldened<\/u> to eat those things that are offered to the idols<\/b>\u2019 <\/span>from the slothful counsellor\u2019s heart. He joyously goes his way, believing that he has seen the light of truth, hopefully, sooner than later, to see that Satan himself, disguised as another Jesus, egregiously deceived him <\/span>(2Co 11:4).<\/span><\/p>\nThe false Christ deceiving the babe clearly hasn\u2019t died to his self-righteousness, as noted by his uncircumcised heart, filling him with <\/span>his glory<\/b> rather than Christ\u2019s truthful word. That counterfeit Christ is drunk on his delusional understanding of the Lord\u2019s word symbolically, likewise, causing him to be semi-consciously naked, or worse, knowingly nude. His uncircumcised heart is aroused and boldly exposing his Serpentine nature as he \u2018spews\u2019 his tares of the two-fold child of hell he is denigrating Christ\u2019s glory.<\/span><\/p>\nMat 23:15\u00a0 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land <\/span>to make one proselyte<\/b>, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.<\/span><\/p>\nMat 18:3\u00a0 And <\/span>[Jesus] <\/span>said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.\u00a0<\/span>
\nMat 18:4\u00a0 Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven.<\/span>
\nMat 18:5\u00a0 And whoso shall receive one such little child <\/span>in my name<\/b> [not another Jesus] <\/span>receiveth me.<\/span>
\nMat 18:6\u00a0 <\/span>But <\/b>whoso shall offend one of these little ones<\/b> which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.<\/b><\/p>\n1Co 8:11\u00a0 And through thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died?\u00a0<\/span>
\n1Co 8:12\u00a0 But when ye sin so against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ.\u00a0<\/span>
\n1Co 8:13\u00a0 <\/span>Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend.<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n