"1Co 10:31 So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God."
This verse, as many others, transcends generations. I've heard this verse taught wrong all my life by Christian institutions, and I'm getting annoyed. This passage is in the context of Christian Liberty and conscience.
Christ has set us free. Has opened up a choice that we never had before: the choice to do good, or evil. Before we were enslaved to various passions [Titus 3:3], but the passages that speak of Christ setting us free from those lusts are all over the place [2 Cor. 3:17, Gal. 2:4, 5:1, etc.].
In everything we have this choice now. In every situation there is a choice to do good, as well as a choice to do selfishness. That is what this verse means.
But that is not what I have been taught all these years. The legalists tell me that we don't have this freedom that Christ gave us. They say that we can only do good, and when we fail, we change our relationship with God. Does this make sense? Did Jesus pay for only some of our sins on the cross? No...He paid for all of them. He chose death for my eternal life, that can't be taken back. That's pretty "all or nothing". God never moves farther from me, if anything I move farther from Him.
When I choose myself over Jesus, God doesn't say, "Dang, oh well. I'm leaving!" He's a fighter, and He'd die to get me back...quite literally.
These are the reasons why Scripture says "whatever you do" not "don't do this in order to glorify God". Reason being, there's a choice for Jesus in every situation, and it's our responsibility as Christians to take those opportunities, or consciously walk away from Jesus. That's what life comes down to.
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