Bible Discussion Thread

Paul advocates tolerance of those who insist on regarding meat and drink potentially defiled by idolatry as koinos (common), he himself is convinced that no food is koinos.
Unfortunately the passage is almost universally misapplied to laws of clean and unclean animals as if Paul said that �nothing is unclean (akathartos) in itself.� He did not. He did not use the Greek equivalent for �unclean�; he used the equivalent for �common�. There is a huge difference between the two. His statement that �nothing is unclean in itself� is completely unrelated to the laws of clean and unclean animals. It is a question of whether or not food is permissible when it might potentially have been offered to an idol. As in Corinthians, he warns his readers not to let their liberal interpretation of food sacrificed to idols become a stumbling block to others. The passage in Corinthians mentions wine as one of the questionable foods. Biblical dietary laws never speak of unclean wine. Wine is a koinos issue, not a clean/unclean issue!!