So like, if God didn’t want us to drink how come he went about turning water into wine?
and if he didn’t want us to smoke, why the hell did he appear as a burning bush?
Who said God didn’t want us to drink?
well, thousands if not hundreds of thousands (possibly even millions). Uh, the teetotalers, and many extremely conservative Christian groups. And let’s not forget the mormons, and stricter Muslims (okay, they said Allah told them it was bad, but still).
and a lot more that i’m too sleepy to try to remember.
http://www.pathwaynet.com/libertyb/biblecrs/alcohol/alcohol1.htm - this person.
http://www.thebiblespeaks.com/Donts/drinking.htm - here
http://www.biblequestions.org/archives/BQAR036.htm - here too
http://www.scionofzion.com/drinking.htm - and of course here
Generaly the bigest claim made is that the greek (and or hebrew) word for wine can mean fermented or unfermented beverages.
However I can’t but wonder if they are not taking this out of context and putting it into what they belive as true. How many wedding parties do you know of that would serve non-alcoholic fruit juice to the guests. Esp. considering that they serve the worst wine first (becasue by the end of the party people are too drunk to tell a good from a bad vintage) It almost explictly confrims that there is true drinking going on.
The debate about alcohol, and probably specifically wine even, is older than the bible, and appears in many ancient books in China and India/Pakistan heritage.
Noah had a drinking problem, and he was the only man fit to live, it appears.
“Give stong drink to those who are about to die, and wine to the heavy-hearted that they may forget their poverty and remember their sorrow no more.”
Proverbs- something
I’d remember the citation but I’ve been drinking.