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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. |
Bible Question: what does God/ the bible say about drinking wine and acohol |
Bible Answer: You asked a legitimate question, “what does God/ the bible say about drinking wine and alcohol?” While some incorrectly claim that the Scripture strictly forbids it, using the hit and miss of select Scriptures as evidence, the whole of Scriptures very clearly state the truth. Let me make this perfectly clear about one thing - I personally do not drink wine or alcohol, or coffee. But the only reason I don’t drink those things - I don’t like the taste. EdB tried to feed you misinformation with a lop-sided explanation. Prayon also only gave you one side of Scriptures’ two sides of dealing with alcohol. The first “mention” of the Lord “giving permission” to drink alcohol in Scriptures is found in Deut. 14:26 “And you MAY spend money for whatever you wish, for oxen, sheep, for wine, or liquor, or anything that you have a craving for, and there you must feast in joy before the Lord your God, you and your household” This “command to buy and drink” follows what the Lord declared “against” drinking wine and strong drink in Lev 10:9. BUT observe the “who, where and when” it is forbidden. “And the LORD said to Aaron, ‘Drink no wine or liquor, neither you nor your sons WHEN you enter the tent of the meeting’ …” As far as what EdB attempted to suggest concerning the wedding in Cana … Unless one can get DRUNK on grape juice, Jesus turned the water into WINE. John 2:10 “Everyone else serves his good wine first, and his poorer wine after people have drunk deeply …” The “drunk freely” means “to drink to intoxication (methuo)” It is always used to signify that thought, like in 1 Cor 11:21 where Paul comes down on people who used the wine in communion to “get drunk”. The common misconception that Jesus used grape juice for the last supper goes against the “benefits” that WINE represents in His blood. Anyone who has ever partaken of a passover and used grape juice and leaven bread or crackers HASN'T partaken in a passover feast, they merely sipped juice and ate crackers. Blessings, Taleb |