The GT Fellowship Beer Thread

[Metal Minister]

Due to popular demand (ok just lots of posts on the subject) I'm starting the General Theology Fellowship Beer Thread! Here, there's no discussion of denominations, or no theological debates, just fellowship, and the discussion of beer! (Ok, ok, all forms of adult beverages! Don't want to discriminate!) Remember all forum rules, but just have fun with this! This is a thread we can go to, to relax, and forget the stresses of debates we're having elsewhere in GT or anywhere else. Enjoy, and Cheers!

 

[Habakk]

I'm a Christian, I don't drink alcohol.

 

[Metal Minister]

I'm a Christian, I don't drink alcohol.

As am I, and I drink alcohol extremely rarely. However, this is a fellowship thread. It was simply inspired by a derailed thread. That thread was derailed by....beer! It started a good, friendly discussion, and since that's rare these days on GT, I used it as a basis to start this fellowship thread!

 

[Habakk]

As am I, and I drink alcohol extremely rarely. However, this is a fellowship thread. It was simply inspired by a derailed thread. That thread was derailed by....beer! It started a good, friendly discussion, and since that's rare these days on GT, I used it as a basis to start this fellowship thread!

Yes I understand your intent here. My response was just a light hearted comment on the irony of a non theological thread on a very theological principle of temperance, practiced by many Christians, including myself.

May I make a suggestion and that is, we include coffee in the thread and of course tea for the teetotallers?

 

[Cappadocious]

I'm a Christian, I don't drink alcohol.

I'm a Christian, I drink alcohol.

"If any Bishop, or Priest, or Deacon, or anyone at all on the holy list, abstain from marriage, or meat, or wine, not as a matter of ascetical discipline, but out of an abhorrence thereof, forgetting that all things are exceedingly good, and that God made man male and female, but blasphemously misrepresenting God’s work of creation, either let him correct and purge his ways or let him be excluded from the Church. The same applies to a layman."

-Apostolic Canon 51

 

[Metal Minister]

Yes I understand your intent here. My response was just a light hearted comment on the irony of a non theological thread on a very theological principle of temperance practiced by many Christians, including myself.

May I make a suggestion and that is, we include coffee in the thread and of course tea for the teetotallers?

Of course!

 

[WOOD81]

beer is good. coffee is good. i believe both will be in heaven.

 

[Nanopants]

I recently found some seasonal apple ale at the grocery store and tried it for the first time. I thought it would be like a wine cooler so I was a little reluctant, but I was surprised. It wasn't too sweet but still tasted like cider.

 

[sunlover1]

beer is good. coffee is good. i believe both will be in heaven.

Heaven without coffee is a shocking thought!
I love beer but rarely drink any.
(Nothing to do with being a Christian)

 

[Thekla]

I'll bite (or raise a "theoretical" glass ) :

a favorite, from my youth (a la 30 years ago or so)

(I worked in a Pub back then; we didn't carry this ...)

 

[Habakk]

I found this exert from a book. “Just like coffee, life can really grind away at you, but that is how we get the flavour and aroma to develop integrity, tenacity, discipline and patience.”

 

[WisdomTree]

I found it disturbing that you lacked any Celtic Red...

 

[Krillin]

A Samuel Adams sounds fantastic right now...

Being that it is frighteningly cold out though, I believe my hot pomegranate tea will do just fine.

Let me also make the suggestion that we be careful with a thread such as this, so as not to let anyone's addictive personality get the best of them.

 

[WisdomTree]

A Samuel Adams sounds fantastic right now...

Being that it is frighteningly cold out though, I believe my hot pomegranate tea will do just fine.

Let me also make the suggestion that we be careful with a thread such as this, so as not to let anyone's addictive personality get the best of them.

Shut up Kirllin! We can't afford to resurrect you with the Dragon Balls anymore!!!

 

[Habakk]

A Samuel Adams sounds fantastic right now...

Being that it is frighteningly cold out though, I believe my hot pomegranate tea will do just fine.

Let me also make the suggestion that we be careful with a thread such as this, so as not to let anyone's addictive personality get the best of them.

I find it strange that a thread on alcohol is even on a Christian site to be honest. A lot of Evangelical churches in England abstain completely from the consumption of alcohol. It’s not a legalistic thing as most would not condemn anybody for drinking, it’s just not done.

When somebody exhibits true conversion, usually within a short period of time social drinking becomes unimportant and with it the need for alcohol. England has big drink problems amongst the young people. Drinking is legal from the age of 18 here and much violence and civil disorder is committed because of it. I do not see any need for Christians to drink but I do see the abstinence as a good example to a beer and drink dominated culture.

Also my uncle was killed by a drunk driver and I'm all too aware of the real evils of drink.

 

[Krillin]

Shut up Kirllin! We can't afford to resurrect you with the Dragon Balls anymore!!!

 

[WisdomTree]

Touche...

 

[Jipsah]

I'm a Christian, I don't drink alcohol.

I'm a Christian, I do drink alcohol.

 

[WisdomTree]

I'm a Christian, I do drink alcohol.

I'm an alcohol, I do drink Christian. Oh what?

 

[GratiaCorpusChristi]

I'm a Christian, I don't drink alcohol.

Yeah, because New Testament period people never drank wine.