Scripture Blog

This weblog is my personal online scripture journal. I try to read the scriptures each morning as I exercise on my cross-trainer. It has a great impact on my life and my testimony of the Savior and his restored church. The journal is really for my own benefit but I have set it up as a web log in hopes to benefit anyone else that may be interested. "For he that diligently seeketh shall find; and the mysteries of God shall be unfolded unto them, by the power of the Holy Ghost..." 1 Nephi 10:19

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

1 Corinthians 8

As Paul wrote the Romans, he warned priesthood leaders to be careful such that they do not become a stumblingblock to the weak. As he answered the Corinthians regarding eating meat that was offered to their "nothing" Gods, he again counseled the leaders in Corinth -

"...for neither, if we eat, are we the better; neither, if we eat not, are we the worse.
9 But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to them that are weak." (New Testament | 1 Corinthians 8:8 - 9)

Again, we have to be sensitive to not offend or become a stumblingblock to those we minister to. Paul even suggests that -

"...though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more.
20 And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law;
21 To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law.
22 To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some." (New Testament | 1 Corinthians 9:19 - 22)

Paul teaches that while he maintains his standards of Christ, he is willing to empathize with both the strong and the weak.