Help on a verse

[Sharky]

I was going through a verse and i found Romans 14:22-23 and got a little worried since i feel i've been doing stuff that wasn't totally in faith. Things like my Jesus Freak cap i made which i had doubts right before i made it. Either that or am i just interpreting it wrong?

 

[Gerry]

Sharky!!!! Sharky!!! What do those Scriptures have to do with your Sharky hat???

 

[Sharky]

Allow me

"Blessed areis he who has no reason to judge himself for what he approves. But the man who has doubts about eating, and then eats, stands condemned before God, because he is not true to his convistions and he does not act from faith. For whatever does not originate from faith is sin."

I was thinking, if a christian were to give money to a poor man and some how doubts what he has done, that is a sin right? This is how i'm interpreting it.
Relating to my hat, i was doing so but as you probably seen in my previous post had doubts with stupid excuses about mark of the beast etc etc. I mean i don't have doubts for the hat now it's just that before i got it made i had doubts.

Otherwise i might be seeing this verse in a different color than it really is

 

[BigEd]

I think it might be a matter of context.

If you look at the verse above it, it a matter of what cause other people to stumble by what we do. there maybe things in life that are not really temptations to us, but my be to a christian brother or sister. So by faith, we need to look out for our brothers and sister and do not do things which might lead them into sin. the main point of romans 14 is that we need to support those who weak in faith, and not cause them to stumble.

for example, if I am with a christian brother (or sister for that matter) and this person is struggling to lose wiegth , i shouldn't take them to a bakery.

 

[GraftMeIn]

Originally posted by Sharky
Allow me

"Blessed areis he who has no reason to judge himself for what he approves. But the man who has doubts about eating, and then eats, stands condemned before God, because he is not true to his convistions and he does not act from faith. For whatever does not originate from faith is sin."

I was thinking, if a christian were to give money to a poor man and some how doubts what he has done, that is a sin right? This is how i'm interpreting it.
Relating to my hat, i was doing so but as you probably seen in my previous post had doubts with stupid excuses about mark of the beast etc etc. I mean i don't have doubts for the hat now it's just that before i got it made i had doubts.

Otherwise i might be seeing this verse in a different color than it really is

 

From what you've said here Sharky, It seems to me as if you cleared up any doubts before you had the hat made.

You'll never know when the scripture on your hat will speak to someone, and I'm sure that it will in many ways.