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1 | Don't understand Jesus's view on alcohol | Prov 20:1 | mrc0026 | 84580 | ||
I want to understand better Jesus's view on drinking alcohol? Is it bad to drink every once and a while? Or can you drink whenever you want as long as you don't get drunk? What is the bible's definition of drunk? | ||||||
2 | Don't understand Jesus's view on alcohol | Prov 20:1 | Scribe | 84581 | ||
There are some excellent books written that use many historians, and agricultural writters who wrote about wine making, preserving wine, etc during the time of Christ. One is Wine in the The Bible: A biblical study in the use of alchoholic beverages. By Samuele Bacchiocchi. There are others and even an ancient encyclopedia from an expert of the time. When all the facts of the culture and customs are examined there is a huge amount of evidence that the common folks were known to dilute wine and to take great precautions to try and keep their wine from fermenting as long as possible. So there is more evidence that the water turned to wine at the wedding was non alcoholic than not. And there is more evidence that the accusations of being a winebibber did not mean He drank alcoholic wine but only that false accusations were being launched. I personally believe after studying many of the historians of the time and agricultural books written on wine at the time that it would be more honest to assume that the pattern fit the norm of society at the time and so it was either non fermented or diluted to a degree that it would take considerable effort to get intoxicated. I do not say that about ever reference to wine in the whole bible. There are references that are talking about non diluted wine, but I do not believe Jesus partook of that type. There is no way to prove it. I have to walk in the light that I have been given. With my knowledge of both the scriptures condemning wine, and my knowledge on many extra biblical texts written at the time describing the common culture of diluting the wine and taking great pains and methods to try to keep it from fermenting as long as possible, that the wine that was like our “ice tea” used by many families and common people, was more often diluted or not fermented, so that for me I feel I am on more solid truth to think that this was the kind that Jesus and the apostles drank at the Lords Supper, and therefore I would not have confidence and be lieing against my conscience of truth if I were to use the store bought wine for the Lord’s Supper, I would feel more confident in using either grape juice (which is wine) or diluted wine (such as non alcoholic wine). But what is the will of the Lord for you? Ephesians 5:17-18 Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is. And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit; |
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