Subject: To wine, or not to wine? |
Bible Note: Charis Very good now prove that wine was alcoholic. As many has said many times before the words translated wine in the bible can and is used for both alcoholic and non alcoholic wine. There is no violation of context interpreting this to read non alcoholic wine. Solomon issued many warnings on the use of alcoholic wine, do you expect anyone to accept that he is now promoting it as you would have us believe? More importantly do you really think God wants us to seek something that diminishes our reasoning, capacity to understand logic, removes self restraint, and kills brain cells? Why would anyone think diminished mental capacity is walking in holiness? If holiness is our objective why use something that has a reputation of taking so many, so far, so fast from holiness? Anyone can pick up the Bible and begin reading in Genesis and they will soon find the devastation, heartache, and ruin alcohol had brought upon various people at various times. Those aspects are not in my definition of Holiness. There is not one place in the bible except for medicinal usage where alcohol is portrayed in a positive light. Doesn’t that give us a clue? When God called men to a walk of holiness in most cases alcohol was always forbidden to them. Why do you think God did that, because He wanted them to miss out on their liberty in Him? Because God wanted they to miss out on all the advantages of alcoholic consumption? God wanted them to miss out on the JOY of life? Or maybe Proverbs 31:5 For they will drink and forget what is decreed, And pervert the rights of all the afflicted. Notice the words it doesn’t say anything about being “drunk” it says they will “drink”. Again I fail to see the reason to portray alcohol in any type of favorable light when it’s reputation is so well known both in and out of the Bible. I also fail to understand brothers in the Lord defending it’s usage when all one has to do is look around them and see all the destroyed lives alcohol had a hand in. While I have been told I’m wrong and even mocked in one case, I still quite sure defending alcohol on a public Christian forum is giving ammunition to the enemy. Some spouse or parent who has been dealing with alcohol in the life of a loved one is going to get a print out of any one of these pro alcoholic appends shoved in their face with the words see even “good Christians” say it is okay to drink, now get off my back. EdB |