7But not everyone knows this. Some people are still so accustomed to idols that when they eat such food they think of it as having been sacrificed to an idol, and since their conscience is weak, it is defiled.
-Some people are ignorant of things. It's become so much a part of thier lives or culture that it burns their conscience when they eat food sacrificed to idols. This is the case today with many things as well. Some people deal with alchol like this, others cards, others with other things. When it violates their conscience to this degree we have to becareful while doing it because it can cause them to stumble and possibly fall.
8But food does not bring us near to God; we are no worse if we do not eat, and no better if we do.
-The reality of the activity is that it doesn't matter as long as we know that it is what it is. We can't be ignorant of sin and think that something sinful doesn't matter. That could be a trap that we fall into as well. We think that in our Christian freedom that certain types of activity is fine while it is sin. But when something is just an activity, that's all it is and we shouldn't think to much of it.
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