#stumbling block

[serenityquest]

[wordsoftheheartandsoul]

The stumbling block in your life, the detour on your journey, and the chapter that you only read to an aligned or selective few was never meant to destroy you. It was meant to redirect you and refine you.

Morgan Richard Olivier - the freedom of forward

[internutter]

Challenge #03194-H285: Stumbling Blind

Poor Jay develops a crush on Lilicoon and asks if she would be ok to date her.

https://peakd.com/fiction/@internutter/challenge-03030-h107-tea-and-socialisation -- Anon Guest

Uplifts were literally made to be attractive. It wasn't their fault. On planets and in polities where they weren't outlawed yet, a certain type could have an Uplift made to order. Some called them Anthros, some called them Beastfolk... but the important part to remember was that they were victims.

Jay and Lilicoon had that starting point in common. They could talk with her about the most horrible abuses and for the both of them, that had been normal life.

Sad, even horrifying for others. For Lilicoon, it was the background radiation of her life before the CRC liberated her and showed her a better way. She had been there. Maybe not the exact same 'there', but a similar one for certain. In that, she was Jay's first true ally.

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[handwerkstatt]

Vielleicht ist das für Tumblr der Stein des Anstosses?

Maybe that's the stumbling block for Tumblr?

[thelordismylightandmysalvation]

1 Corinthians 8-13 (ESV) Food Offered to Idols

Now concerning food offered to idols: we know that “all of us possess knowledge.” This “knowledge” puffs up, but love builds up. 2 If anyone imagines that he knows something, he does not yet know as he ought to know. 3 But if anyone loves God, he is known by God.

4 Therefore, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that “an idol has no real existence,” and that “there is no God but one.” 5 For although there may be so-called gods in heaven or on earth—as indeed there are many “gods” and many “lords”— 6 yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist.

7 However, not all possess this knowledge. But some, through former association with idols, eat food as really offered to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled. 8 Food will not commend us to God. We are no worse off if we do not eat, and no better off if we do. 9 But take care that this right of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block to the weak. 10 For if anyone sees you who have knowledge eating in an idol's temple, will he not be encouraged, if his conscience is weak, to eat food offered to idols? 11 And so by your knowledge this weak person is destroyed, the brother for whom Christ died. 12 Thus, sinning against your brothers and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ. 13 Therefore, if food makes my brother stumble, I will never eat meat, lest I make my brother stumble.

[aglimpseofhim]

When people fail me, help me to look up to You.

Let me fix my eyes on You, God.

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

A practical problem: shall we be guided by superior knowledge or love?

1a Now to deal with the matter of meat which has been sacrificed to idols.

1b-3 It is not easy to think that we “know” over problems like this, but we should remember that while knowledge may make a man look big, it is only love that can make him grow to his full stature. For whatever a man may know, he still has a lot to learn, but if he loves God, he is opening his whole life to the Spirit of God.

4-13 In this matter, then, of eating meat which has been offered to idols, knowledge tells us that no idol has any real existence, and that there is no God but one. For though there are so-called gods both in heaven and earth, gods and lords galore in fact, to us there is only one God, the Father, from whom everything comes, and for who we live. And there is one Lord, Jesus Christ, by whom everything exists, and by whom we ourselves are alive. But this knowledge of ours is not shared by all men. For some, who until now have been used to idols, eat the meat as meat really sacrificed to a god, and their delicate conscience is thereby injured. Now our acceptance of God is not a matter of meat. If we eat it, that does not make us better men, nor are we the worse if we do not eat it. You must be careful that your freedom to eat meat does not in any way hinder anyone whose faith is not as robust as yours. For suppose you with your knowledge of God should be observed eating meat in an idol’s temple, are you not encouraging the man with a delicate conscience to do the same? Surely you would not want your superior knowledge to bring spiritual disaster to a weaker brother for whom Christ died? And when you sin like this and damage the weak consciences of your brethren you really sin against Christ. This makes me determined that, if there is any possibility of meat injuring my brother, I will have none of it as long as I live, for fear I might do him harm. — 1 Corinthians 8 | J.B. Phillips New Testament (PHILLIPS) The New Testament in Modern English by J.B Phillips copyright © 1960, 1972 J. B. Phillips. Cross References: Deuteronomy 4:35; Deuteronomy 4:39; Deuteronomy 6:4; 1 Kings 3:3; Psalm 1:6; Isaiah 46:9; Matthew 17:27; Matthew 18:6; Matthew 25:15; Matthew 27:17; Mark 9:42; John 6:27; Acts 15:20; Romans 14:1-2; Romans 14:13-14 and 15; Romans 14:17; Romans 14:19-20; Romans 14:21-22; 1 Corinthians 3:18; 1 Corinthians 10:28; 1 Corinthians 13:8-9; 2 Corinthians 6:3; 2 Thessalonians 2:4

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

"Many a professing Christian is a stumbling-block because his worship is divided. On Sunday he worships God; on week days God has little or no place in his thoughts." - D.L. Moody