What problem was the Corinthian church facing in 1 Corinthians 8 regarding meat?
The Corinthian church was troubled over meat sold in the marketplace or served at a host’s dinner table. Believers did not know whether they could rightly eat such meat if it had first been offered in a pagan temple. This uncertainty created a real problem for the congregation.
Les explains this was yet another problem that was holding the Corinthian church at bay. They just did not know how to cope with meat in the marketplace, or meat at the table of someone who invited them to dinner, and whether they could eat it if it had been offered in a pagan temple. Les notes that while we do not have to face this particular thing, it is still appropriate to study it because other issues in society today are analogous to it.