What Is Love?

“But whoever loves God is known by God. So then, about eating food sacrificed to idols: We know that ‘An idol is nothing at all in the world’ and that ‘There is no God but one.’ .” – 1 Corinthians 8:3,4 Today, I will focus on the kind of community Paul was building in Corinth. In one encounter, Paul responds to a question: “Can we eat food that is sacrificed to idols?” Paul makes two distinctions in answering this question. The first concerns food sacrificed to idols and then sold in the marketplace. He says, “You know what, it’s all God’s. You can eat that stuff.” But there is a second type of food that’s sacrificed to idols, which is food offered in the presence of a pagan god, where you would have to participate in a pagan worship service. These worship services, essentially meals, were called symposia. They were