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Originally Posted by coksiw
Think about that. If drinking wine was so important to avoid illness because of unsanitary water related, then they would drink it a lot. If they drink a lot of wine, then do you really think they will drink the one with 12% of alcohol? I would say that most of they wine they drank was "new" wine, unfermented.
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Brother, if most of the wine that they drank was new wine, which you believe means unfermented, what was the rest? Fermented?
Also are you sure “new wine” means no alcohol? I’m not sure that is the case although I’m certainly no authority on the subject. It seems to me that new wine would have a lower alcohol content, because it would be sweeter, because less of the sugar would have been converted to alcohol.
Also it seems to me that if you put grape juice in the prescribed “new skins” it probably would convert to wine pretty quickly.
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Originally Posted by coksiw
I used to drink one cup of wine daily at lunch time, without getting drunk, but you start feeling a tax on your body over time. I doubt they use to drink a lot of fermented wine. Alos, Israel, the people that generally understood righteousness, and feared God, loosing their judgment on wine continually, eehhh, nah.
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One of the comparisons between John the Baptist and Jesus was that John didn’t drink wine. He was a Nazarite. Jesus was accused of being a winebibber. I don’t believe they were accusing him of drinking too much grape juice.
I really am not a drinker at all, but I believe Jesus did drink wine, and I believe it contained alcohol. And I believe He made wine, some of the very best, without grapes. And I believe it contained alcohol.
Surely drunkenness is a sin. The Bible says so. It doesn’t say drinking is a sin though. Just drinking in excess.
I’m so glad I could settle this issue once and for all.
:happy dance
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