Comments on: The Weak Conscience in 1 Corinthians 8:7 (Part 2) http://www.phwdennis.com/2010/01/weak-conscience-1-corinthians-8-244.html Biblical History • Interpretation • Theology Tue, 27 Apr 2010 10:13:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Neil Miller http://www.phwdennis.com/2010/01/weak-conscience-1-corinthians-8-244.html/comment-page-1#comment-10 Neil Miller Wed, 13 Jan 2010 21:13:42 +0000 http://www.phwdennis.com/?p=244#comment-10 Sounds like the pagan converts suffered from an inability to bring new meaning to their meaty dinners. This seems like another issue where an understanding of subjective reality, in the form of "actual" meaning for ingesting a nice bit of moo-cow, would have better served these guys' concience than a hard-and-fast rule that such activity objectively equates to idol worship. Outback anyone? Sounds like the pagan converts suffered from an inability to bring new meaning to their meaty dinners. This seems like another issue where an understanding of subjective reality, in the form of “actual” meaning for ingesting a nice bit of moo-cow, would have better served these guys’ concience than a hard-and-fast rule that such activity objectively equates to idol worship.

Outback anyone?

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