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Re: Social drinking?
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Originally Posted by Sean
Bro. a spade is a BUZZ from alcohol, it just takes one or two glasses for a light drinker to get "tipsy". You guys are insisting on our savior being "tipsy" from time to time. If drunkenness is a sin, the drinks leading up to it are "creating" the sin. So you guys are saying in essence, Jesus was a sinner...
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Some people (me included) don't believe in adding to scripture. If scripture isn't clear or is silent, you can't go ahead and connect the dots anyway and call it doctrine.
Jesus wasn't a sinner, so that means if He did have a glass of wine with His dinner then it simply wasn't a sin. There's no way to "make" our Savior a sinner by examining history. We don't really know either way, so you can't legitimately swing the debate one way or the other.
Scripture says not to be drunk with wine "wherein is excess." The same principle applies to gluttony, but we wouldn't say that eating is wrong; we only point to over-eating as being wrong. If your logic held true, then food would also be sinful since it "creates the sin" of gluttony. "If gluttony is a sin, then the food leading up to it is 'creating' the sin."
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