Theft, greed, adultery, and medicinal vodka based beverages

I was questioned today on how I could attend church, believe in God and drink medicinal vodka based beverages. Now I understand that the truly moral among you may find this difficult to comprehend BUT here it is. I am not perfect. Yikes, who knew!

I take my faith with extreme seriousness. I take anyone’s faith with extreme seriousness. If you are Christian great... If you are Jewish great... If you are Hindu great... If you are whatever great... I am greatly concerned with cults/churches/organizations that require the drinking of poisons and the need to kill or maim but other than that I can work with it.

The point is I trust God to give humanity the tools to figure it out. We all agree murder is not a positive nor is theft, greed, adultery, and jealousy the list goes on and on. My question and I hope one day God will enlighten me is why so many versions of the same thing?

I know that I am of limited mind. I know that string theory exists and that all matter is connected by a string (think of the poor parents that spent thousands on a child’s education that produced only theory and does not offer any kind of income or anything concrete for that matter). I know that the earth rotates around the sun. As little as 400 years ago that was in question. Less time than that we had no idea about matter or fusion or radioactivity.

So why in this age of the 21st century do we think we have all the answers to faith and God? We are still not sure how a virus survives and self replicates. Is it the human nature to be vain and self centered? The bible says that the Lord created the heavens and earth in six days. Here is the question that will rock your world.

HOW LONG IS A GOD DAY?

Now I assume if God can perform miracles and create existence from nothing a day for God could last a millennium. Maybe I am thinking outside the box here but are humans just not looking at the big picture? Now if I can create a universe I would think that linier time is not something that would give me any concern. I just snapped together a universe I think I could control a watch too. Does this sound simplistic? Does this sound radical? Maybe but I find that the more I think the more I understand the limits of my mind.

I do believe that God made us in his own image. Now do I think that we are the whole of God? No we are only one simple piece. We are like a really great pie. Flaky and light… Sweet and tart… baked to a delicious color... still all in all we are only one piece. I am not wise enough to think that I am more or that anyone else is more than that one simple piece of creation. I can delve in my faith and think.

Now I can drink medicinal vodka based beverages. I do not drink excess. I do not drink and drive. I do not force others into medicinal vodka based beverages or any type of medicinal beverages for that matter. However, after a very long day of listening to religious zealots and those who know God personally I find a medicinal vodka based beverages is warranted and even more so appreciated.

I know rant, rant, rant and even more mystified….