Love is the Answer

Acts 12
Herod's Persecution of the Christians

About that time King Herod caught some members of the church to harm them. He had James,m John's brother, killed by the sword, and when he saw that the Jews liked this he arrested Peter too. It was the feast of Unleavened Bread.
He had him put in prison under guard of 4 squads of 4 soldiers each. He intended to bring him before the people after Passover, so he kept Peter in prison for then. But prayer in the church was ascending to God on his behalf.
On the very night before Herod was to bring him to trial, Peter, secured by double chains, was sleeping between two soldiers, with soldiers keeping watch over the prison. Suddenly, and angel of the Lord stood by him and light shone in the cell. He tapped Peter oin the side and awakened him, "Get up quickly." The chains fell from his wrists. The angel said to him, "Put on your belt and your sandals." He did so. Then he said to him, "Put on your cloak and follow me." So he followed him out, not realizing that what was happening through the angel was real, he thought he was seeing a vision. They passed the first guard, then the second, and came to the iron gate leading out to the city, which opened by itself. They emerged and made their way down an alley, and suddenly the angel left him.
Then he realized he wasn't seeing a vision but it had all happened. "Now I know for certain that the Lord sent his angel and rescued me from the hand of Herod and from all that the Jewish people has been expecting."
So he went to the house of Mary, the mother of John who is called Mark, where there were many people gathered in prayer. When he knocked on the gateway door, a maid named Rhoda came to answer it. She was so overjoyed when she recognized Peter's voice that she ran back inside to tell the others instead of opening the gate. They said, "You are out of your mind, it is his angel" but she insisted and they went back and opened the gate and were astounded to see Peter there at the gate.
He motioned with his hand to be quiet and explained to them just like I am explaining to you how the Lord led him out of the prison, and said, "Report this to James and the brothers." then he left for another place.
At daybreak the soldiers were dumbounded and Herod was way upset. He had the guards search but they didn't find anybody, so he had the guards tried and executed, then he left Judea to spend some time in Cesarea.

Then Paul wrote this to a church in Rome. 14:13-23
Consideration For the Weak Conscience
"Let us no longer judge one another, but resolve never to try to get another to mess up or hinder a brother. I know and am convinced in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself; still, it is unclean for someone who thinks it is unclean. If your brother is being hurt by what you eat, your conduct is no longer in accord with love. Do not because of your food destroy him for whom Christ died. So so not let your good be reviled. For the kingdom of God is not a matter of food and drink, but of righteousness, peace, and joy in the holy Spirit; whoever serves Christ in this way is pleasing to God and approved by others. Let us seek what leads to peace and to building up one another [even if it is through chemistry, but by love alone] For the sake of food or anything like it, do not destroy the work of God. Everything is indeed clean, but it is wrong or anyone to become a stumbling block by eating; it is good not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything that causes your brother [or yourself] to stumble. Keep the faith that you have [to yourself] in the presence of God. Blessed is the one who does not condemn himself for what he approves. But whoever has doubts is condemned if he eats, because this is not from faith, for whatever is not faith is sin."

Faith conquers all fear.