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NASB | 1 Timothy 5:23 ¶ No longer drink water exclusively, but use a little wine for the sake of your stomach and your frequent ailments. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 Timothy 5:23 ¶ No longer continue drinking [only] water, but use a little wine for the sake of your stomach and your frequent illnesses. |
Subject: Is it okay to drink alcohol? |
Bible Note: Aniset Your comments are very interesting and seems to make a lot of sense. However the comparison to food just doesn't work when we remember alcohol is the “excrement” of sugar eating bacteria. Also unlike food which nourishes the body alcohol provides nothing we need and we know even the slightest amount kills brain cells, causes deformities in babies and lowers inhibitions. Your logic could be applied to arsenic, it not a problem unless you take enough to kill you. I don’t think anyone would argue against the fact that alcohol has destroyed more marriages, injured or killed more people, caused as more property damage than an other substance in the world, so why defend it? Because you have a right? Right to do what? Drink bacteria excrement and get a buss. EdB |