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According to the Bible, is it lawful to drink wine in alcohol form?

Most modern day gospel preachers say that the wine that the bible speaks of is actually non-fermented juice...such as grape juice. Yet I find that conflicting with another scripture found in the Old Testament book of Genesis, Chapter 19, verse 32.

For those who say that it is now the new testament..and a new covenant...I submit to you that the bible teaches that God was the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Christians...what are your thoughts?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Having a goblet of red wine every evening is really good for you ! It relaxes you, thus eliminating stress. It is good for your stomach. It is full of antioxidants ( thus, good for your heart ). And if it is good wine, it will put a smile on a face that was bogged down all day with the cares of this life...

    Jesus said that it isn't what goes into the body that defiles a man, but, what comes out......THAT defiles a man. The Word of God also says to stay clear of "strong drink" ( liquor ). There are some people that cannot drink even ONE glass though, without it having a dramatic effect on their brain...To those....stay away.

    Feeling down ? Drink a little wine to brighten your countenance...

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    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    of course the "grape juice" was wine (alcohol). Jesus made some and took it to a party. The drinking guests would have certainly known if it was plain old grape juice.

    Wine was not fortified back then, so the alcohol content was lower, and (if I understand correctly) wine was also mixed with water to purify the water by killing bad stuff / germs in it, so alcoholism was not a big problem even though they had wine at every meal (because it was watered down.) (but I am sure they got drunk once in a while, as per the admonitions elsewhere in the Bible.)

    P S I heard that grape juice line decades ago when I was in Sunday School; as the Baptists were dead set against any kind of alcohol.

  • 1 decade ago

    Grape juice was a common drink at meals. Water treatments plants did not exist.

    But alcoholic drink were also common.

    The Bible teaches not to be drunk, but says nothing about not drinking alcohol at all.

    The benefits from red wine are widely known, and even Paul encouraged Timothy to drink a little wine for his frequent stomach upsets.

    "strong drink" is spoken of as something to avoid.

    1 Timothy 5:23

  • 1 decade ago

    As Christians, we are not under the law of sin & death. So in all things we do, we do in the Name of Jesus.

    Then there is the verse that we are to overfilled with the Holy Spirit, and not overfilled with the old wine.

    That would be that God can get us drunk better than any wine can. And we are suppose to be alert to be watching.

    Really, there is no verse that says that you can not drink alcohol. But there are verses that advise against drunkenness.

    Also that drunkenness does not inherit the Kingdom of God. So the drunkards souls are more in tune with the spirits of darkness.

    As Christians we trust & obey Jesus & are not drunkards. We get drunk in the Spirit. There isn't a hangover either.

    And we can drink wine here & there. There is no commandment to not drink wine, unless it becomes a bondage in our life. Or it used to be a bondage in our life.

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  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    beer. It substitute into the two in a 24 oz.. can or a quart bottle yet I drank it from a lager glass, i think of. That substitute into approximately sixteen some ordinary days in the past. I only assume you're conversing relating to the final truly one and not the final batch. The final batch may be an selection of an identical.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    That is so silly!! There are flasks of wine that have been recovered from the sea bed from that age and they are alcohol!!

    Indeed alcohol was widely drunk as far safer than drinking water!!

    It is amazing how these misguided zealots try to put their own bigoted ideas into the bible!!

  • 1 decade ago

    The reason they drank a lot of fermented drinks in biblical times was for health reasons... water could be contaminated. Of course they drank fermented wine... the baptists are ridiculous.

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