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Originally Posted by Truthseeker
Once again, eating meat is different then partaking with pagan customs. Idols are real and demons behind them.
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To the people Paul was addressing, the eating of this meat was considered in the same manner you are referring to, which is why Paul tells them,
1Co 8:4 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.
Paul does not give ANY power to or behind any idol. Why? Because there is no power in idols. Be it the idols Paul was referring to, or any other idol they or we may have, because there is only God. Paul was trying to show the people the powerlessness of idols to the point he would actually partake of that which was offered to idols knowing all the prayers they (pagans) may have made to these idols meant absoulely nothing, just empty words to a non-exsistent powerless god.
Paul claims idols are nothing. God is.