Liberty, Love, and the Weak
1 Corinthians 8:9-11 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read 1 Corinthians 8 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
The passage warns that your freedom in knowledge should not become a stumbling block to weaker believers. True love respects their discernment and keeps the community safe.
Neville's Inner Vision
Imagine liberty as a radiant inner power you wield in consciousness, not as a license to flaunt your knowingness before others. In Neville’s key, the temple and the meat represent inner idols—habits of fear and attachment that tempt the weak to throw away discernment. The strong one, who has awakened to an I AM sense of freedom, must not press that power outward into situations that awaken others’ old fears. Your knowledge becomes a stumbling block only when used to provoke the illusions that others still cherish. But when you stand in the oneness of Christ within you, you choose restraint, not denial of truth, so the entire field rises. The call is to deliverance and love: maintain your inner liberty while blessing the conscience of another, knowing that Christ died for them as well. Your task is to align your acts with a higher note of compassion, so your freedom becomes healing rather than polemic.
Practice This Now
Imitate the practice by assuming the consciousness 'I am' one with all minds, then revise your outward freedom to bless rather than signal; feel-it-real by silently affirming unity with Christ for every person in your presence.
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