The lady should be able to understand what is respect and what
is not. If she believe that she is submitting to the gods if she is
holding joss sticks... then she should not had converted to
christianity in the first place as she believe that there are other
gods cos christianity only preaches one God.
If she do not believe in the other gods but hold the joss
sticks, it does not affect anything. If she is so particular,
during the years that she lived with her parents, she would had to
buy food outside everytime her family is holding offerings durings
those days. If holding joss sticks constitute as a belief, eating
the food that were offered to the gods does not? That a bunch of
bull shit and craps.
She just wanna make headlines with such stupid reasons and guess
what? It does not honour her parents and that make Singapore had a
bad impression of christianity. She is just a pile of shit!
So then, about eating food sacrificed to idols: We know
that an idol is nothing at all in the world and that there is no
God but one. For even if there are so-called gods, whether in
heaven or on earth (as indeed there are many "gods" and many
"lords"), yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom
all things came and for whom we live; and there is but one Lord,
Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we
live.
But not everyone knows this. Some people are still
so accustomed to idols that when they eat such food they think of
it as having been sacrificed to an idol, and since their conscience
is weak, it is defiled. 8But food does not
bring us near to God; we are no worse if we do not eat, and no
better if we do.
Be careful, however, that the exercise of your
freedom does not become a stumbling block to the weak. For if
anyone with a weak conscience sees you who have this knowledge
eating in an idol's temple, won't he be emboldened to eat what has
been sacrificed to idols? So this weak brother, for whom Christ
died, is destroyed by your knowledge. When you sin against your
brothers in this way and wound their weak conscience, you sin
against Christ. Therefore, if what I eat causes my brother to fall
into sin, I will never eat meat again, so that I will not cause him
to fall.
Consider the people of Israel: Do not those who
eat the sacrifices participate in the altar? Do I mean then that a
sacrifice offered to an idol is anything, or that an idol is
anything? No, but the sacrifices of pagans are offered to demons,
not to God, and I do not want you to be participants with demons.
You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons too; you
cannot have a part in both the Lord's table and the table of
demons. Are we trying to arouse the Lord's jealousy? Are we
stronger than he?
Eat anything sold in the meat market without
raising questions of conscience, for, "The earth is the Lord's, and
everything in it."[c]
If some unbeliever invites you to a meal and you
want to go, eat whatever is put before you without raising
questions of conscience. But if anyone says to you, "This has been
offered in sacrifice," then do not eat it, both for the sake of the
man who told you and for conscience' sake[d]—
29the other man's conscience, I mean, not
yours. For why should my freedom be judged by another's conscience?
If I take part in the meal with thankfulness, why am I denounced
because of something I thank God for?
So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do
it all for the glory of God. Do not cause anyone to stumble,
whether Jews, Greeks or the church of God— even as I try to please
everybody in every way. For I am not seeking my own good but the
good of many, so that they may be saved.
After reading this, do what you feel is right according to this
bible passage then. =)