Paul says not to ' participate ' with their worship of demons . This means that as long as you are clear in your behaviour that you are not offering an idol your worship as though it was God , then you should not worry about being in their presence , eating the sacrificial offerings after the worship has been concluded by someone else , even standing peacefully to one side while a friend worships them . We recognise that they are just images carved in stone or wood , and so have no spiritual power or reality . We recognise that the being or concept of a being towards whom worship is directed when someone praises an idol is an antigod , rather than God Himself , a false spirit , not a spirit at all , a lie rather than the divine truth .