"knowledge" puffs up

So then he who marries his betrothed does well, and he who refrains from marriage will do even better. A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord.
Yet in my judgment she is happier if she remains as she is. And I think that I too have the Spirit of God.
Now concerning food offered to idols: we know that "all of us possess knowledge."
This "knowledge" puffs up, but love builds up. If anyone imagines that he knows something, he does not yet know as he ought to know. But if anyone loves God, he is known by God. (1 Corinthians 7:38-8:3 ESV)

almost everytime this verse is quoted it disregard the context it is in
interestingly ESV translations added a "THIS" before the word knowledge
the author explicitly refers this specific "knowledge" to the context regarding food offered to idols, it is quite clear those people that has came to faith has previously partook pagan food offered to idols and is lack of faith regarding this area.
so Paul continued expounding on this issue that there is but ONE God from vs 4 to 7

Then concerning the eating of the things sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God except one. For though there are those who are called gods, whether in Heaven or in earth (as there are many gods and many lords), but there is to us only one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in Him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we by Him. But this knowledge is not in all. But some being aware of the idol eat as an idolatrous sacrifice until now, and their conscience being weak is defiled.  (1 Corinthians 8:4-7 MKJV)

(of cause many preacher love to use this verse loosely to apply to other knowledge wonder why a lot of christian do not read bible perhaps they do not want to puff up like what many preacher has warned them to - without knowledge you wont puff up)

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from being a priest to me. And since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.  (Hosea 4:6)

Israel map throughout history

read this exchange on face book, very thought provoking

  E Good morale values!

  L   OMG... U kidding me... how can YY not taste the difference... beer is bitter

        while 100 plus is sweet. gosh!!!

  F  But mixed together is bitter sweet

  L  still got a bitter taste right!!!

  E: You are talking about YY who eats & drinks anything! guess ur KK will be like

        YY too! ;)

  L  think KK has better tastebud... my attaps tastebud. hahahaha....

  L  but YY being YY... so damn funny. so easy chin chye until can't even   

     differentiate the taste. just eat and drink and be merry type.

 indeed a good case study of the current spiritual state of a lot of believers

     SIN INDEED IS BITTER SWEET , sweet at the present moment but it leads to bitter ending

     MANY BELIEVERS CANNOT DIFFERENTIATE BETWEEN EVIL AND GOOD who eats and drink everything (all kind of teachings)

just eat and drink and be merry type. are you the same kind?

This phrase originates from the Bible (Luke 12:19), where Jesus is telling a parable. The parable is about a man who stores up food for years to come and then tells himself: "Soul, you have many goods laid up for years to come; take your ease, eat, drink, and be merry." This is often used as a positive phrase nowadays ("Let's eat, drink, and be merry!"), but in the parable God then refers to the man as a "fool", because his life ended that very day.

MANY SIMPLY EAT DRINK AND BE MERRY JUST AS THE BIBLE PROPHECIES

 about the end days

luke 17: 26-30 And as it came to pass in the days of Noah, even so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man. They ate, they drank, they married, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all. Likewise even as it came to pass in the days of Lot; they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; but in the day that Lot went out from Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all: after the same manner shall it be in the day that the Son of man is revealed.

Jeremiah 32: 37-40 'I will gather them out of all the countries where I drove them in my anger, fury and great wrath; and I will bring them back to this place and have them live here in safety.  They will be my people, and I will be their God.  I will give them singleness of heart and singleness of purpose, so that they will fear me forever - this will  for their own good and for the good of their children after them.  I will make with them an everlasting covenant not to turn away from them, but to do them good; I will put fear of me in their hearts, so that they will not leave me.

temple n worship

Rom 12:1 I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.

when your sin are forgiven you now are without blemish

therefore it is appropriate to present yourself to God as a freewill offering

we can now voluntarily give up ourselves as living sacrifice (not killed offering )

everyday surrendering your will with complete abandonment to the will of God what ever His will is what I will do.

about “ living” sacrifice   is that it always crawls out from the altar.

communion and wedding

thew Hebrew customs of wedding & betrothal and the meaning of the cup of wine the Yeshua share on the night before Passover the modern day christian never understand

The Julian calendar, instituted in 45 B.C.E. by Julius Caesar, is the reckoning of time that is utilized for astronomical calculations and computing events in ancient history.  NASA’s calculated accuracy for the Julian calendar is measurably better than one millionth of a second.  The calculations for the Astronomically and Agriculturally Corrected Biblical Hebrew Calendar for dates before 1582 are all calculated and expressed in the Julian mode.  The Gregorian calendar was instituted in 1582 to rectify the miscalculation of leap years inherent in the Julian system.  Pontifex Maximus Gregory XIII added ten days to the calendar at midnight on Thursday, October 4th, which then became Friday, October 15th.  The seven-day week and the seventh-day Sabbath have continued uninterrupted from both the Julian and Hebrew reckoning – and it is highly probable that it has continued uninterrupted since it was begun by the Almighty during creation week (Genesis 1&2).
It has been astronomically and mathematically verified that the Sabbath Yahshua kept holy is the same day of the week it is now.  The astronomical proofs are precise to one one-millionth of a second, and the mathematical calculations are accurate to within one ten-millionth of a day.  This irrefutable data constitutesprima facie evidence that the recently concocted “lunar sabbath” is pure fiction.  If Yahshua did not find it necessary to “renovate” the Sabbath when he was here, but meticulously guarded its sanctity, it is presumptuous and impertinent to assume that someone would know more about the “correct” Sabbath than Yahshua did.     I am not of the mind to straighten “the Lord of the Sabbath” out concerning this particular issue!  Considering the multiple “fatal errors” in the various lunar-sabbath systems, which attempt to invent a sabbath that coincides with the phases of the moon, this is, by far, the most fatal.  I will stick with Yahshua on the seventh-day Sabbath.  If he was wrong, I will go to the grave in the same error – just to be safe (Matthew 12:1-8).