Better Drinking

Taking the Bible at face value, one must contend with a great number of truths that God has communicated. One of the fundamentals can be summarized as, "Everything is theological". This is just another way of repeating Romans 14:23, which places all human activity within one of two realms, sinful against God, or faithful to God. For my purposes, given these statements, I say that beer is theological. What this means is that our drinking, our brewing, and our thoughts and words about beer ought to reflect the glory, grandeur, and goodness of the Creator.

In our current culture, "christianizing" something usually means to downgrade it in order to make it palatable, or turn it into something that it's not meant to be. We're not interested in doing that here. Beer should reflect God in it's creative and complex production, as well as in it's joyful consumption. Drunkenness is exactly a sin because it causes us to forget that God requires obedience to His Word, and tells the lie that the created thing can fill a void made by and for the Creator alone. In other words, being drunk dishonors God and the creation which reflects His name. But when imbibing correctly, God's name is held up in honor, His law is obeyed, and His glory is put on display for us to see.

And we still get good beer, which is really only a fleeting by-product in all of this. So stick around and while enjoying the temporary, perhaps He will grant a glimpse of the Eternal.