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To share table with someone is to establish a community with someone. Jesus had shared table with Judas, and Judas betrayed him (Cf. Psalm 41:9 and john 13:18). In the Old West of our frontier days, to share a meal was to establish a covenant with those at table: the hospitality endured, despite danger to oneself.
The covenant nature of communal meals was understood in antiquity. To share a meal with the deity was for pagans and Jewish people a communion with the divine, and it was unthinkable that one would share communion with opposing deities.
This idea underlies the commandment in today’s passage about meat sacrificed to idols. The Christian Eucharist is about sharing communion, sharing life with God through Christ. This is basic to the Christian theology that we share in the life of the Father and of Christ when we celebrate the Chrisian mysteries. This is also why Christians are very careful about sharing communion indiscriminately with everyone. In a sense our desire to be one with everyone is a desire to be one with everyone through and with Christ.
The decision of the “Jerusalem Council” was that Jewish Christians and Christians from pagan backgrounds may share meals together but may not seem to share communion with pagan gods by eating meat that had been sacrificed to pagan gods. The report of the decision was pleasing to the Christians of Gentile origin,
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