The teaching of the apostle Pual on this question is authoritative in two ways: if one member suffers or is honored, all in the community like wise suffer or enjoy honor; but whatever their individually received gift may be, all must strive to build up the church in love. So the understanding of the church as the Body of Christ is as much a Protestant as it is an Orthodox or Catholic one, however differently interpreted. Paul gave an exemplary instance of the application of human rights within a communal context when he instructed the Corinthian Christian about their dispute over eating sacrificed meat. In the pagan custom of the Roman Empire the meat animals offered to idols was later sold in the market and served at table. Some very sensitive Christians believed and feared that it world amount to the terrible sin of idolatry to eat such meat. Pual disagreed. In modern idiom he would said , “I have a perfect to eat meat. There is no divine law against doing so.” For the sake of his own sense of dignity and for apostolic authority of his officer he could have insisted on this permissive belief. He chose not to insist.