Knowledge vs Conscience

The debate regarding Beer, Bohemianism and Christian Liberty finds its primary word of address in the writings of Paul from 1 Corinthians 8,9 and 10. Here the lines are drawn not between old foggies and inculturated newbies but between those strong in knowledge and those weak in conscience. Does your consciousness trump another's conscience? Does what you know you are free to do become a greater guide on your life than what another feels they should do? In 1 Corinthians 8 correct knowledge squares off against a weak conscience. Something has got to give... Paul's word is to those with the stronger consciousness that the freedoms from knowledge are never to interfere with the limitations of those with weaker and tenderer consciences. The Strong are to limit their freedoms rather than to be the cause, by their behavior, of drawing out the others from their limitations.