Social drinking?

[Sean]

Originally Posted by KeptByTheWord

Sean, while some may say wine to mean both wine or grape juice, you can't ignore the fact that people at a wedding would not be drinking grape juice. Paul wouldn't have prescribed Timothy grape juice for his stomach ailments. Unless the grape juice became fermented into wine, it wasn't something that would keep for any length of time, so the preservation process of preserving the grape juice/wine would inevitably result in an alcoholic beverage for the sake of preservation.

To try to use this reasoning to prove your point really takes you to a dead end, imo. Rather it would be better to assume that the wine they drank was preserved for longer periods of time because of the alcohol content, yet no doubt mixed with water, and probably not as strong as the wine drank today.

So, do you think Jesus turning the water into wine, offered rotten, fermented juice to the guests? I wonder what percentage of alcohol it was Jesus made when he made his moonshine?...LOL

It was just good ol fresh grape juice, like delicious fruit punch at a Christian wedding these days.....Jesus would NEVER cause folks to be drunkards, it is against the very passages in the N.T. He and the Apostles spoke about incessantly.