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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: wine and acohol |
Bible Note: OK I have to respond to this as a student of winemaking. Wine is OK in moderation to drink while pregnant. I drink wine occassionally in moderation and I am breastfeeding. The argument that the women who might be pregnant at the feast couldn't drink wine is no good. They could drink a little. In addition, in bible days, people often drank wine diluted with water because the water was not microbiologically stable. The wine killed the "bad stuff" in the water and made it better to drink. Also, you do not have to add sugar to wine to make it. This is laughable. The grape berries have enough sugar for the yeast to make alcohol out of. The yeast that makes bread also produces alcohol. That's what yeast does. It ferments the sugars into CO2 and alcohol. Both are produced in bread and wine. I am shocked to see how there is a lack of understanding of how wine is actually made. It is illegal to add sugar in California, where I live. I am from Napa. I know more than the average person about making wine. I've worked in a winery before and I'm in school to be a winemaker, as I said before. The wine made in biblical times was not as drinkable as the wines produced today, therefore it was common to drink the wine diluted so it didn't taste so bad. The bible does not say to not drink water and drink only wine, it says to not just drink water and drink a little wine. To quote a famous saying, wine is one thing, drunkenness another. |