Romans 14 is not only about meat and vegetables....it is a parable. In those days the “shambles” or butcher was likened to the local bar or saloon....eating meat sacrificed unto idols was no different than commiting adultry or fornication....a sin was a sin under the law.....When eve ate of the apple, was this parable only about eating fruit? No...it was about disobeying god...Romans 14 is the most profound scripture relating to how we treat each other in the dispensation of grace....the first verse says nothing of mere vegetables, he continues to clarify that with the finished work of the cross, judge not your brethren, wether is be one sin or another....why? Because god gave his son and took the sin of the world, nailing it to the cross....so as a brother in Christ, you are not subject to sin which was made manifest by the law....we are no longer under the law....you mistake what sin is to a believer, yes we have all sinned and fall short of the glory, but in Christ we are sanctified, our sins are covered in the blood of Christ, who are you to uncover them? Who are you impute a penalty of sin on your brethren? So I will say it again....this is a doctrine that tears families apart, sin can wrongfully be imputed on a brethren by a weaker brethren, wether it by meat or wether it be suspicion of adultry alike....and why is he the weaker brethren? Because he has not the faith,(and does not fully understand what it means to take the sin from the world, he is still in bondage) and anything not of faith is a sin....so you can falsely impute or charge your brethren as a sinner in Christ...I see it over and over in corporate church doctrine. When you judge your brother, he feels that you have imputed sin upon him....and who are you to judge?
14 Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations.
2 For one believeth that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, eateth herbs.
3 Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not; and let not him which eateth not judge him that eateth: for God hath received him.
4 Who art thou that judgest another man's servant? to his own master he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be holden up: for God is able to make him stand.
5 One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.
6 He that regardeth the day, regardeth it unto the Lord; and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it. He that eateth, eateth to the Lord, for he giveth God thanks; and he that eateth not, to the Lord he eateth not, and giveth God thanks.
7 For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself.
8 For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.
9 For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and living.
10 But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.
11 For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.
12 So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.
13 Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in his brother's way.
14 I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean.
15 But if thy brother be grieved with thy meat, now walkest thou not charitably. Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom Christ died.
16 Let not then your good be evil spoken of:
17 For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.
18 For he that in these things serveth Christ is acceptable to God, and approved of men.
19 Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another.
20 For meat destroy not the work of God. All things indeed are pure; but it is evil for that man who eateth with offence.
21 It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.
22 Hast thou faith? have it to thyself before God. Happy is he that condemneth not himself in that thing which he alloweth.
23 And he that doubteth is damned if he eat, because he eateth not of faith: for whatsoever is not of faith is sin.
