Don't do certain things or eat certain things to please God? Your weak in faith according to Paul

Are you very careful about what you eat or drink for the Lord? Or do you eat all things and bless His name knowing that nothing in and of itself is evil or good but our thoughts make it so?

You can apply this to almost anything in the christian life. There are those who only do certain things because they think they may be offending God. Then there are those who do all things as unto Him without worrying about the legalities of right and wrong.

It can all be summed up in a few little verses from Romans 14. No you won't hear any preacher or teacher talking about these because you see it confuses their points about sin and right and wrong in the church because these verses speak of those who don't watch what they eat or what they do as much as being "strong" in faith not weak. In the christian community it's the opposite thought that tends to dominate thought; that is you are strong in faith if you do live your life just so.

Take a look for yourself. Romans 14:2

"For one believeth that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, eateth herbs."

That's right, the one who is really trying to please God by just doing certain things is what? "weak in faith."

"One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind."

There is the key, the "mind". The mind is where all the discrepencies lay when it comes to your faith. It is your thinking that makes it so said Shakespear and Paul.

So why do we have thousands of versions of christianity? The mind. Why do whe have millions of christians each with their own ideas of what sin is and isn't? The mind. Why we do we have wars of religion? The mind. I think you get the point. The mind is carnal and even referred to in the bible as an enemy or "enmity" against God.

Romans 14:14 reads:

"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."

Again it's what you "esteemth" or what your mind decides.

Romans 14:22

"Hast thou faith? have it to thyself before God. Happy is he that condemneth not
himself in that thing which he alloweth."

Anything not of faith is basically sin according to Paul in this chapter so live your life in faith and stop trying to judge yourself and others. If it is love that is the fulfillment of all the law then live in faith and love for this is the goal of the teachings of Jesus. If you are being harsh on yourself and judging then you are not living in faith and love.