Beer
has anyone ever tried beer?
i wonder how beer was invented and how it became popular. i wonder this because everyone's first beer is terrible. you feel like what you are drinking is potable only in the academic sense that your body doesnt reject it immediately, but your taste buds feel that maybe this isnt such a good idea. But you finish it anyways.......and, whats this? im feeling good, little loose, little relaxed. just enough to make you come back for another at some latter point in time. pretty soon you like the taste. interesting. i wonder though if this was the process that the first brew masters went throught. i imagine the first beer tasted awful. but that didnt stop them, no sir they were buzzin i presume. speculation
I do think that beer is a gift from God. along with pizza, ice cream, or any food or drink you enjoy. but as with pizza and ice cream, beer must be enjoyed in moderation, or it can become the object of an unhealthy obsession with unhealthly consequences (obeisity, heart disease, drunkeness resulting in wrong action). I motion that for churches that are teaching that to consume beer is an abomination unto God, that they also will speak in kind to fatty and sugary foods which right now account for more death and loss of enjoyment in life than alchohol by far. So we need to consider what we do with our bodies beyond if we are addicted to drugs or not, what else are we addicted to that we wont give up and what is it doing to our bodies? it doesnt harm anyone else if I eat poorly, some may object, but alcholol can. Well if you dont want to go for a walk with your spouse b/c you might keel over then you are harming that relationship, or if you feel like crap all day b/c your body is under such stress just to pump blood through your viens, then you have chosen to limit the gift of life God has given you. Am I just justifying the fact that I like beer? Yes, and No. Yes b/c i do. NO, b/c i want to elucidate the irrational fear of beer in fundamental church circles, that doesnt prohibit other equally as destructive habits.
Peace, I'll drink to that.
posted by Craig @ 6:33 PM
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that is something that has to be considered. what is the spirit of paul's exhortation considering food? it seems that the problem is that "The brother is greived" and it is b/c of your food, that is not love. we as christians have freedom, and therefore we have choices we make that neither justify us or condemn us before God. What has to be considered then is how do our actions effect our brothers and sisters? If I in my freedom choose to drink, but you have struggled with alcoholism, then it would not be "walking in love" for me to drink around you, especially if that "grieves" you. Or maybe beer just bothers you and to with me while I drink it effects the quality of our interaction, then I need to not drink - even if i find your aversion irrational. Paul was addressing an interesting situation when persons still had remnants of the Torah Law mixed with Jesus' message of a law written on your heart, a new law. I think this struggle continues today, but as Derek Webb says "dont teach me about, moderation and liberty, just give me a new law" and "dont teach how to live like a free man, just give me a new law." It is often easier to adopt a code of behavior to live by, as a measuring stick and a way to escape the ambiguity of freedom and moderation.
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