SeekingOne
06-12-2009, 03:06 PM
I know some people a part of a church that not only has the "Holiness" standards, but have added all kinds of standards over the years. Their latest turn has me laughing hard.
There was one point when they put out a cookbook that mainly used honey, because sugar was bad for the "temple" and they wanted to show the "public" that there was a better way of eating.
This church has a restaurant that attracts tour buses and such. The honey thing would not go over so great for business. Suddenly Fructose was fine to eat. And eat it they did. Tons of it! LOL
The next cookbooks that came out suggested Fructose for the most part when sugar would normally be called for. Then they finally got the picture that Fructose is toxic and really worse than sugar.
Now they suggest EcoSweet and use it in all their baking. This is what is sooo funny. I have asked a LOT of people there about this, and it is not just one person that is deluded, ok?
I asked, "When did you guys decide sugar was okay?" The only response I get from 40 or 50 people so far, "We still don't eat sugar, we eat EcoSweet."
I have tried to convince them that they are eating sugar, but they know that it is not allowed according to "their" standards, so they don't believe me. These people believe everything they are told by their leaders "hook, line and sinker." So they believe they are eating EcoSweet and it is not sugar.
(They have to keep eating sugar or all the money the church is making off the restaurant will go bye bye. Once everyone figures out it is sugar, I guess the leadership will come up with some Biblical reason that sugar is good now. LOL)
This is the problem with making up standards that are not in the Bible. People think they are being "Holy" by doing them, but they are actually just obeying man and not God.
These same people are not supposed to eat pork, chocolate, caffeine, meat with any blood still in it and on and on. If you don't follow the patterns, you get kicked out. If you get kicked out you are going to Hell for breaking your covenant with them. Suddenly you are going to hell for eating something???? :nah
There was one point when they put out a cookbook that mainly used honey, because sugar was bad for the "temple" and they wanted to show the "public" that there was a better way of eating.
This church has a restaurant that attracts tour buses and such. The honey thing would not go over so great for business. Suddenly Fructose was fine to eat. And eat it they did. Tons of it! LOL
The next cookbooks that came out suggested Fructose for the most part when sugar would normally be called for. Then they finally got the picture that Fructose is toxic and really worse than sugar.
Now they suggest EcoSweet and use it in all their baking. This is what is sooo funny. I have asked a LOT of people there about this, and it is not just one person that is deluded, ok?
I asked, "When did you guys decide sugar was okay?" The only response I get from 40 or 50 people so far, "We still don't eat sugar, we eat EcoSweet."
I have tried to convince them that they are eating sugar, but they know that it is not allowed according to "their" standards, so they don't believe me. These people believe everything they are told by their leaders "hook, line and sinker." So they believe they are eating EcoSweet and it is not sugar.
(They have to keep eating sugar or all the money the church is making off the restaurant will go bye bye. Once everyone figures out it is sugar, I guess the leadership will come up with some Biblical reason that sugar is good now. LOL)
This is the problem with making up standards that are not in the Bible. People think they are being "Holy" by doing them, but they are actually just obeying man and not God.
These same people are not supposed to eat pork, chocolate, caffeine, meat with any blood still in it and on and on. If you don't follow the patterns, you get kicked out. If you get kicked out you are going to Hell for breaking your covenant with them. Suddenly you are going to hell for eating something???? :nah