Social drinking?

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Originally Posted by KeptByTheWord

I don't have a problem with the understanding that in the culture 2000 years ago that wine was a staple, as important as water because of their inability to preserve food, and to have clean drinking water. I don't have a problem believing that Jesus partook of wine, or that Paul advised Timothy to drink wine for his stomach ailments, or even that some of the church members were getting too tipsy in the Corinthian church, and Paul advised them to drink at home, and not at church. Wine was part of their culture, and even a necessity it seems. Today that is not the case. We don't need to drink wine to purify our water, or to help with our stomach ailments, because there are other options open to us. Today, because of the problem with the alcohol, addiction, and the door that alcohol opens that is hard to close - we choose not to drink, simply because we know that alcohol starts on a slippery slope. Since it is not a necessity to our way of life, we just avoid it.

Good post. This is a subject of what is expedient and not what is law. You make valid points as to why you prefer not to drink alcoholic beverages. As a diet conscious man, I would make some of the same points regarding a high calorie/ empty calorie diet.