In a conversation or in a meeting, we give our opinions, we say what we think, we express ourselves but we know for a fact that we hate to be contradicted.
When some people go against our ideas, we don’t like to sound like people whose voice doesn’t count, it diminishes us, it frustrates us, it demeans us.
Let us know that God uses differences of opinion to test our love for one another.
We cannot all agree in a church, some eat meat and others do not but we must oblige or neglect each other, Paul advises us Christian tolerance, we must know ourselves welcome without contempt and judgment.
The Bible says in Romans, 14: 1 – Welcome one who is weak in faith, and do not argue over opinions.
Avoid arguing over opinions.
Paul did not want to linger in the debate which occupied the new converts, he refused to discuss this aspect which for him is secondary and could cause divisions and quarrels and especially lead more than one to leave the church.
Paul did not tell Christians not to eat the meat since Jesus allowed it, nor did he tell the meat eaters to give up so as not to disturb others.
Rather, he invites us to unite, to stay together and to build until our husband returns.
But our human nature tends to judge those who claim to be Christians.
We, who give ourselves unnecessary restrictions, look down on those who feel freer.
Fortunately for us, Paul is impartial and he criticized both attitudes.
The arrogance and overconfidence of some and the judgment of others are the dangers of Christian disunity.
The solution to lessening the growing separation between Christians is to cement love.
The apostle Paul alludes in the verse to spiritual weakness and meat sacrificed to idols.
It is not a sin to stop eating meat for health or religious reasons, but we should not despise those who make another choice.
Let us stop the debates which do not help us and which take us away from the very depths of speech.
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