Reflection: What about eating?

Reflection: What about eating?

Sounds like a vegetarian manifesto to me.
‘I will never eat meat again, so that I will not cause him to fall.’
Does that mean that we all have to become veggies?
Not a chance! How could I live without bacon butties, or ham sandwiches? As for Christmas without turkey – unthinkable!
Paul can’t have meant that, can he?

I suppose he might have had a point in his time. He does talk about this meat having been sacrificed to idols first.
But, as he said himself, ‘food is just food,’ - and what we eat affects our bodies, not our relationship with God.
So, why worry?
Or is there something else at stake here? (And I know that talking of stakes doesn’t particularly help where vegetarianism is involved.)

Maybe he meant us to see a bigger picture?

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