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1 | making wine.Did Jesus make a mistake. | Bible general Archive 1 | Morant61 | 68546 | ||
Greetings John! I won't recover previous ground my friend, but I do have some practical questions for you. I am a pastor. At what point can I tell a member in my congregation that he is drunk? Does God go by Indiana State Law to determine drunkeness? Exactly how much is 'too much'? Is alcohol God given or the product of decay? Is the drinking of fermented liquids the proper use? I ask these questions because the position that drinking is okay as long as it is not done to excess creates some rather large difficulties for a pastor and an individual. Does God really leave us in the ambigious position of possibly committing a sin by being drunk but never really knowing if we have reached that point or not? I know what adultery is! I know what stealing is? But, exactly what is drunkness and when do I say when? :-) Your Brother in Christ, Tim Moran |
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2 | making wine.Did Jesus make a mistake. | Bible general Archive 1 | Reformer Joe | 68548 | ||
How do you determine whether a member of your congregation has committed gluttony or not? How much food crosses the line between enjoyment of God's food and gluttonous greed? Your favorite theological grenade-thrower, --Joe! |
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3 | making wine.Did Jesus make a mistake. | Bible general Archive 1 | Morant61 | 68559 | ||
Greetings Joe! My counter grenade toss would be: Which verse specifically commands us not to be gluttons? :-) I tossed the questions out in both fun and seriousness though. Is .005 blood alcohol not a sin, but .006 is a sin? Is drunkeness a state of being or a process? My position has always been that intoxication is the process of poisoning one's body and that the process itself is the sin, not the amount of poison put into the body. :-) But, as I said many times before, I count this as a personal conviction which I would never force on anyone else. I simply don't see any good in alcohol. It doesn't make me more Christ-like, nor more intelligent (I can't spare any brain cells), so I see no reason to do it and many possible reasons to avoid it. Your Brother in Christ, Tim Moran |
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4 | making wine.Did Jesus make a mistake. | Bible general Archive 1 | Makarios | 68608 | ||
Good point, Tim! Your Brother in Christ, Makarios |
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