Chapter 8

2021 - Just reading through this.  Rummage did a great sermon on this not very long ago.  Relying on that.

Concerning food offered to idols.

It is just food.  It won't help, it won't hurt.  We know that.  However, for those who have been raised up that consuming this food is a communion with idols, with gods (lower case), and have not yet come to a fuller understanding of this, it is best that they don't eat it.  And if you eating it makes them eat what they think they should avoid eating, then our "knowledge" has caused them to sin.  Better not to eat at all if that will be the result. 

vs 5, per MSB, says that some idols are just fakes - wood, stone, metal - but others are manifestations of demons.  More than inanimate, but even so, they are NOT GOD.  These people had seen or been taught about these demons and the deceptions they practiced.  Point is, there was more to the kind of idols that might have been around in those days than there is today.