Social drinking?

[Sean]

Originally Posted by MissBrattified

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."

You did not finish the passage you began to quote, let me do it for you...

Ephesians 5:18



And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;



Paul is giving us the ALTERNATIVE to wine here,,,BUT(or rather), to be FILLED with the Spirit...Otherwise known as "THE NEW WINE"


When we get the New wine, we dont need to drink the old wine anymore...