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Originally Posted by Digging4Truth
Okay... one more post... LOL...
The analogy you give between eating meat offered to idols and practicing Christmas is flawed.
In the situation Paul was dealing with there was pagan ritual... and then meat offered in that pagan ritual.
Paul never said it was okay to take part in the pagan ritual. He said it was okay to eat the meat that was sold as an aftermath of the pagan ritual.
What Paul was saying would be tantamount to saying that it was okay to buy Christmas candy etc.
Wouldn't you agree that Paul was not stating that they could take part in the ritual itself but only stating that they could eat the food product that was associated with the ritual?
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All we are doing in this analogy is eating the meat. We aren't taking part in any rituals. The trees, the lights, the gifts etc are all just the meat. The ritual would be the actual worship of some idol...which no one is doing.
Assuming thatthe ritual included dancing, screaming, cutting oneself, fornicating or whatever else as an act of worship to a false god, none of that is being done today even in analogous form. There is no act of worship going forth in hanging lights and setting a tree. They are just decorations. No worship. No mention of a false god. No callingon the name of some babylonian deity. Just trees and lights and feeling really happy about spending tim ewith family and friends.
It's just the meat. And yeah...it used to be menat for idols, but not anymore.
He's probably just decided it's pretty pointless to try and argue with a woman on this forum because we all turn threads into shoe & purse threads... or in this case would start posting Christmas decoration photos. (Speaking of which, where is the thread for this year??? I haven't seen one... and I was really hoping for some new ideas!)
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