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1 | water into wine | John 2:1 | userdoe220 | 11729 | ||
In referring to the passage in question: "Wine is wine is wine is wine" Jeffery Sief, Phd. You said it correclty, "it can refer to fermented and unfermented." In this passage I believe it was fermented. Please read Alfred Erdshiem (also a Jewish scholar like Jeffery Sief) who would very strongly disagree with your conclusion on this topic. Real wine (the kind with alcohol in it) is used today, as it has for 1,000's of years, in Jewish weddings. Only shallow, legalistic American Christainity has made it a "sin" to partake of wine(alcoholic kind.) I would agree that wine can make one stumble if taken in excess--hence the many warnings about abusing it in scripture--but nowhere is drinking alcohol forbidden. I really liked you study in the Hebrew word for wine (still not sure what relevance Hebrew is to the Greek language or the passage in question; nevertheless it was a nice study). |
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2 | water into wine | John 2:1 | EdB | 11755 | ||
I think there is another consideration here in this question. Today's science tells us alcohol is particularly harmful to developing embryo’s and therefore to be avoided by pregnant mothers. A Jewish weddings of this time would include many young couples of the approximate age of the wedding couple, much the same as today. Young couples, in the prime of their child bearing years. I think it safe to make an assumption that there was probably one, two or more pregnant women in attendance. Knowing what we know about alcohol and the dangers to pregnancies, and Jesus, being all knowing, would be aware of this fact. Is it conceivable to imagine Jesus would make something that was destructive to one of the developing embryos that may have been in attendance? I know this is very circumstantial, but I think the likely hood of the situation begs the question. For your consideration. |
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