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Originally Posted by Aquila
My point is, watered down or not... it was wine. It contained alcohol. And it wasn't "sin" in and of itself. The "sin" was in allowing one's self to become drunken. So, one can drink wine watered down, or one can just limit themselves to one or two glasses of wine with dinner. Either way, effort is being taken not to become drunken. To say that the wine was a sin, in and of itself, merely because it had alcohol in it, is to essentially say that Jesus and others consumed watered down sin. This would mean that Jesus wasn't sinless. And that my friend, unravels the entire atonement.
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I think for this question, and others that involve standards, or appearance that is not specifically covered by the 10 commandments, or addressed by an apostle in a letter of un-ambiguous language. The sin is in the intent.
Intend to go to a bar to drink enough to forget- or to loosen your moral compass enough for a hook up, is sin the moment you leave the house with that intent.
Going for a nice shepards pie, cheesecake, and 2 fingers of really nice single malt scotch, is called having dinner. And because this place is a nice respectable pub.....just fine. No intent to do an evil, dangerous or disreputable thing is there.
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