Comments on: Beer & Christianity http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/beer-christianity/ Jay R. Brooks on Beer Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:38:23 +0000 http://beerzine.com/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Jerry Dodson http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/beer-christianity/comment-page-1/#comment-18305 Jerry Dodson Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:40:21 +0000 http://www.brookstonbeerbulletin.com/beer-christianity/#comment-18305 Jay, Too many Christians are way out of line on their views of beverage alcohol. Apparently they have never read Deut 14:27. As a Presbyterian pastor, I enjoy all sorts of beers and wines. I have many pastor friends who enjoy a good cigar or a pipe; I just never acquired a taste for them, but I enjoy the atmosphere they create (no pun intended.) The Bible never condemns moderate consumption of beverage alcohol; it condemns drunkenness. Too many Christians equate use with abuse. It makes me very angry that a) Christians are ignorant of what the Bible says about beverage alcohol, never having studied the subject for themselves but simply regurgitating the misinformation handed down from their elders b) I have to constantly defend my enjoyment of beverage alcohol to so many Christians. I have all the relevant passages from Scripture down pat. Keep up the good fight! Jay,
Too many Christians are way out of line on their views of beverage alcohol. Apparently they have never read Deut 14:27. As a Presbyterian pastor, I enjoy all sorts of beers and wines. I have many pastor friends who enjoy a good cigar or a pipe; I just never acquired a taste for them, but I enjoy the atmosphere they create (no pun intended.) The Bible never condemns moderate consumption of beverage alcohol; it condemns drunkenness. Too many Christians equate use with abuse. It makes me very angry that
a) Christians are ignorant of what the Bible says about beverage alcohol, never having studied the subject for themselves but simply regurgitating the misinformation handed down from their elders
b) I have to constantly defend my enjoyment of beverage alcohol to so many Christians. I have all the relevant passages from Scripture down pat.

Keep up the good fight!

]]> By: John http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/beer-christianity/comment-page-1/#comment-9598 John Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:35:38 +0000 http://www.brookstonbeerbulletin.com/beer-christianity/#comment-9598 I started home brewing beer and some w/only herbs. I had a real problem with this. Quilty for sure. Got over it. I started a brewers club 9 mos. ago. Now have 97 members including christians. men and women. I am 73 nect month and the churched lied to me for 26 yrs till I found out the health benifits of moderate beer/wine consumption. homebrewer7@gmail.com I started home brewing beer and some w/only herbs. I had a real problem with this. Quilty for sure. Got over it. I started a brewers club 9 mos. ago. Now have 97 members including christians. men and women. I am 73 nect month and the churched lied to me for 26 yrs till I found out the health benifits of moderate beer/wine consumption.
homebrewer7@gmail.com

]]> By: Jason http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/beer-christianity/comment-page-1/#comment-553 Jason Sun, 18 Nov 2007 00:36:41 +0000 http://www.brookstonbeerbulletin.com/beer-christianity/#comment-553 I'm enjoying a Bell's Lager as I read this. The Evangelical Christian Church has thrown out the baby with the dirty bath water. If you don't have the fruit of self control maybe you should not drink. I know my limit and stop there. I’m enjoying a Bell’s Lager as I read this. The Evangelical Christian Church has thrown out the baby with the dirty bath water. If you don’t have the fruit of self control maybe you should not drink. I know my limit and stop there.

]]> By: casey long http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/beer-christianity/comment-page-1/#comment-552 casey long Fri, 05 Jan 2007 12:58:51 +0000 http://www.brookstonbeerbulletin.com/beer-christianity/#comment-552 as a christian who loves a great beer, likes a good beer, and will drink a bad beer christianet and others like them should remember JUDGE NOT LEST YE BE JUDGED! thank you God for beer! as a christian who loves a great beer, likes a good beer, and will drink a bad beer christianet and others like them
should remember JUDGE NOT LEST YE BE JUDGED! thank you God for beer!

]]> By: Travis Poling http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/beer-christianity/comment-page-1/#comment-551 Travis Poling Thu, 04 Jan 2007 22:43:19 +0000 http://www.brookstonbeerbulletin.com/beer-christianity/#comment-551 And let us not forget Saint Arnoldus, the patron saint of Belgian brews. a And let us not forget Saint Arnoldus, the patron saint of Belgian brews. a

]]> By: Martyn Cornell http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/beer-christianity/comment-page-1/#comment-550 Martyn Cornell Thu, 04 Jan 2007 18:26:50 +0000 http://www.brookstonbeerbulletin.com/beer-christianity/#comment-550 The links between beer and Christianity go back at least 1600 years or more - St Patrick had his own brewer St Brigit turned bathwater into beer for thirsty travellers Monasteries across Northern Europe brewed their own beer (and some still do, of course) Abbess Hildegard, the first person to write about hops in beer, wrote that beer was more healthy for you than water ... and those are just the ones I can think of without looking anything up ... The links between beer and Christianity go back at least 1600 years or more -
St Patrick had his own brewer
St Brigit turned bathwater into beer for thirsty travellers
Monasteries across Northern Europe brewed their own beer (and some still do, of course)
Abbess Hildegard, the first person to write about hops in beer, wrote that beer was more healthy for you than water
… and those are just the ones I can think of without looking anything up …

]]> By: Dan Todd http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/beer-christianity/comment-page-1/#comment-549 Dan Todd Wed, 27 Dec 2006 17:45:49 +0000 http://www.brookstonbeerbulletin.com/beer-christianity/#comment-549 why is beer under attack? They've already managed to destroy the celebratory cigar and shamed all smokers so now it is time to go after another vice. Once they're done with our alcohol it'll be time to go after trans-fats with greater vigor than they've mustered so far. It's just a matter of trying to wipe out as many things enjoyed by others as possible. I wish the news weren't so dreary on this, our greatest national holiday. why is beer under attack? They’ve already managed to destroy the celebratory cigar and shamed all smokers so now it is time to go after another vice. Once they’re done with our alcohol it’ll be time to go after trans-fats with greater vigor than they’ve mustered so far. It’s just a matter of trying to wipe out as many things enjoyed by others as possible. I wish the news weren’t so dreary on this, our greatest national holiday.

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