and there is one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom everything exists, and we exist through him. (1 Cor 8:6)2 In the part of this ancient letter that we now know as chapter 8, Paul is addressing a point of conflict at Corinth involving eating meat that in Jewish eyes was polluting. It had not been properly drained of blood, and it was often being consumed in a hired dining booth that was far too close to pagan temples and their images—a doubly disgusting practice. Members of the Corinthian church who