Sadly too often preachers and teachers give lopsided presentations of their subject matter to align with personal, political, or perhaps unknown biases.<\/p>\n
This occurred recently at the\u00a0church<\/a>\u00a0my wife and I are members of in an evening topic related to alcohol. For some reason, this (along with music styles) seems to be the biggest dividing point between otherwise-identically-believing Christians: is it OK to drink, or not? Does God condemn it or not? If it is not condemned, should I participate? If it is condemned, why would I participate?<\/p>\n While I work-up my entire response to the recent “sermon” (it was really more of a diatribe against drinking rife with missing biblical references, and gross historical errors), I want to leave a single thought: on its own, there is no physical object (natural or man-made) that has a moral value (positive or negative) – the created world is amoral, whereas it is only by the choices of divinely-inspired living beings (Gen 2:7<\/a>) that moral issues can be seen; in other words, it is by the instrumentation of man that an object can be used<\/em>\u00a0for good or evil – on its own, it can do nothing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sadly too often preachers and teachers give lopsided presentations of their subject matter to align with personal, political, or perhaps unknown biases. This occurred recently at the\u00a0church\u00a0my wife and I are members of in an evening topic related to alcohol. For some reason, this (along with music styles) seems to be the biggest dividing point …
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