God's Good Gifts: The Evil of Rejecting Them and the Right Way to Receive Them

Two questions to ask when reading this passage:

How big of a deal is it to forbid that which is permitted and to pronounce as evil that which God has declared to be good?
How can we receive God's good gifts in a way that glorifies his great name?

1 Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith

by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons,

2 through the insincerity of liars whose consciences are seared,

3 who forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

4 For everything created by God is good, and

nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving,

5 for it is made holy

by the word of God and prayer.

—1 Timothy 4:1-5

Also compare this with 1 Cor. 10:30-31: "If I partake with thankfulness, why am I denounced because of that for which I give thanks? So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God."

Also see this post today from Kevin DeYoung in which he seeks to apply these verses to entertainment.