Messianic Apologetics editor John McKee reviews the issue of eating meat sacrificed to idols in 1 Corinthians 8. How can we better understand this passage in light of the circumstances in Ancient Corinth? What about the presence of various factions in the assembly, and what they communicated to Paul? (Part 2 – 1 Corinthians 8:4-13)
This is then followed by a review of important stories and issues from the past day or so, largely witnessed on social media.
THEOLOGY ROUNDUP
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NEWS ROUNDUP
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Where Is 3I/ATLAS? The Interstellar Mystery That’s Puzzling Scientists: link
JD Vance sidesteps antisemitic question while defending Trump’s Israel stance: link
President Trump declares Nigeria a “Country of Particular Concern” due to the existential threat facing Christianity: link
The Pentagon has approved the transfer of Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine, the final decision now rests with Trump.: link
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio calls today’s article from the Miami Herald stating that the Trump Administration has made the decision to launch attacks against military installations inside Venezuela — which they claimed could begin “in a matter of days or even hours” — a “fake story.”: link
‘Within days, Maduro will exist only in the past tense and in history’s judgment’ — White House sources to New York Post: link
The Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force has been placed on high alert: link
Are Trump, Vance and the GOP going to sit on the sidelines and let the most important political movement of our time—MAGA—become a depraved, bigoted freak show?: link
Nick Fuentes fumes that we need to go back “to the good old days” when men could go to the authorities and have women burned alive.: link
Major power disruptions are being reported in Zhukovskiy and throughout several other suburbs to the south of the Russian capital of Moscow: link
OUT OF THIS WORLD: Vice President JD Vance says UAPs (unidentified anomalous phenomena) don’t shake his beliefs: link
Locke believes Dome of the Rock needs to be blown off for Third Temple to usher in coming of Jesus: link
Every single Christian in Canada needs to hear about this. Spread it far and wide.: link
“Support for Israel is highest among Trump base.”: link
“In the last six months, I’ve seen more antisemitism on the right than I have in my entire life.: link
The ideological virus infecting young Evangelicals: Why anti-Zionism is anti-Christ: link
Earlier today, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) published footage from October 31, captured by a U.S. Air Force MQ-9 “Reaper” Surveillance Drone operating over the Gaza Strip: link
A man who admits he knows very little about the Bible steps forward to correct what he—having never heard of the Arians, the Manicheans or the Pelagians—terms the “oldest of Christian heresies.”: link
“Following President Trump’s historic meeting with Chairman Xi in South Korea, I had an equally positive meeting with my counterpart, China’s Minister of National Defense Admiral Dong Jun in Malaysia.: link
This is beautifully stated.: link
A Gazan woman demands that Hamas finally disarms and leaves Gaza: link
Christian nationalist pastor Joel Webbon says that women today are dumb, wicked, vile whores: link
Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One, President Trump said there “could be” U.S. troops deployed or airstrikes carried out in Nigeria.: link
The Church is presently being sifted by “the controversy of Zion.”: link
Which side of the Republican Divide are YOU on?: link
Trump: “These are people not to be toyed with,” when asked who’s tougher to deal with, Putin or Xi: link
Gov. Martha Layne Collins, the first and only woman to serve as governor of Kentucky, died Saturday, Nov. 1.: link
