As Jesus turned water into wine does that mean we should drink wine in his honour?

Jesus was simply a man, who attained high levels of enlightened states. It was the ignorance of his followers, in whom were responsible for weaving fanciful fairy tales of his humble yet powerful connection to life.

One only has to look at the kinds of myth spun around other heroes to see how the imagination can lead people into irrational override, especially when we want something to be so true. Yes, a very powerful embodiment of love, but I do not believe for one instant, that Jesus or god through him changed water into wine.

Those who wrote the accounts of Jesus had a vested interest in the proliferation of his teachings and so continuation of his teachings and most were written after Jesus had died. They also had to write in a way that captured the delicate balance between God, which people saw as being pure, and a simple man who was interpreted by the people of his time to have the highest wisdom. This wisdom would have elevated his followers into a high sense of hope. Jesus knew he was going to die, like I would know that i would eventually die if I were to cross the ocean preaching teachings of Christianity in an staunchly Islamic country.

Jesus, Holy Spirit, God the trinity and every other denomination of spirituality will become real for anyone who chooses to believe in its structure. But all these are just merely beliefs formed around physical events and personal experiences conveyed with enthusiastic exaggeration.

What is that spaceful stillness underneath our constant illusory need to tightly formulate or grip onto a belief? Bless You!

I know that this will probably get some peoples backs up, but it is not my intention to provoke. I feel sometimes that people do take scriptures too literally and guide their lives letter for letter, rather than letting go and plunging into the unknown territory of the inner self where all life, from all those, who where called saints can be found within our own being. Bless You!

In many churches wine is taken at communion, other churches use grape juice instead, but whether wine or grape juice the rite is spiritual-

communion means spiritual union with your higher power, not an excuse to drink alcohol, so it's all good.

Like always, you don't understand because you have to put it into context. Why wine?

Because alcohol is a disinfectant. Back then if you drank the water you could die. Put a little wine (alcohol) in the water and it would be safe to drink. The wine they drank (even as little children) was "new wine" and was barely fermented. Maybe 5% alcohol. Cough syrup can be 30%.

No, people really get confused with this one, everything about Jesus is pure, remember alcoholic wine is fermanted grapes, and this is nothing but pure or fresh.

In the olden days weddings mainly comprised of wine and the wedding lasted for up to 7 days, now alcoholic drinking for seven days was going to spoil the bridegrooms ceremony, hence grapes were spueezed for the juice and enjoyment of the guests. In the old testament it was Jesus that was commanding that no alcoholic substance should be consumed, so why now whould he turn pure water into poison.

No, it does not.

It does mean that Jesus has no objection to the drinking of wine, though. He objects to drunkenness, but not to the drinking of wine.

He also turned the wine of the Pascal meal into His own Blood, on the night before He died on the Cross.

Of course we should have a glass of red wine with our dinner. Wine is good for your body. Doctors recommend a glass of red wine.

Only at weddings. Save the best wine for the last in his honour.

Does that mean we should drink wine in his honor?

--Except that, he had no honor to begin with.

'Where was the wine? In the jars or in the cup? If the water in the jars really turned into wine, then the servers should have drawn wine from the jars. But this was not the case. The servers drew water from the jars and not wine: (Jn 2,7) Jesus told them, 'Fill the Jars with water'. So they filled them to the brim. Then he told them 'Draw some out now and take it to the headwaiter'. So they took it. And when the headwaiter tasted the water that had become wine, without knowing where it came from (although the servers who had drawn the water knew), the headwaiter called the bridegroom and said to him, 'Everyone serves good wine first, and then when people have drunk freely, an inferior one; but you have kept the good wine until now.' Jesus did this as the beginning of his signs in Cana in Galilee and so revealed his glory, and his disciples began to believe in him. If the water in the jars really turned into wine, then the servers should have drawn wine from the jars. But this was not the case. The servers drew water from the jars and not wine: 'Although the servers who had drawn the water knew; asserting that the servers drew water (not wine) and knew that it came from the jars. How could Christians claim that the jars contained wine if 'John' bluntly said that the servers drew water from them? Don’t Christians ever think about it? 'John' himself says that the servers drew water from the jars and not wine. Therefore, the jars there still contained water. No miracle in the jars. If the servers FILLED the jars with WATER and later they DREW WATER from the jars, then it was water all along. This ‘miracle’ must have happened after the jars, in the cup of the headwaiter. If this ‘miracle’ happened after the jars, then this is the same trick performed today worldwide. This is not a miracle at all. This is a hoax. But we are fortunate to have 'John' as a witness so that we know how Jesus Copperfield did his miracles.'

http://www.miracles-of-jesus-christ.com/miracles.h...

Sorry, we were smoking a lot of martian cigarettes in those days and we would just write down the craziest visions, thoughts, and ideas we had in little metaphors. We didn't really think it was going to catch on like it has, it was just a joke.

Learn to separate historical passages of the Bible from doctrinal application passages.

It is a minority of times in scripture that the word "wine" refers to alcoholic wine. That term is used for both fermented and unfermented wine.