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jason, I don't disagree that alcohol is a dangerous thing to drink. I do disagree with your assumption about the wine the Jews drank or the passage regarding drinking wine for Timothy's intestinal troubles. I think the issue in Timothy was the water itself was unhealthy to drink hence the suggestion to drink a little wine instead.But in these things: They all have their rightful place in allowance.
People can only have sex within the bounds of marriage.
Alcoholic drinks of today have their rightful place, too. One use is that they can be used for medical reasons as Paul told Timothy to put a little wine into his water for the infirmities of his stomach. For wine back in Biblical times used by the Israelites who were faithful to God was diluted with water. Revelation says, "he same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation" (Revelation 14:10). The picture here is that the wine is without the mixture of water to dilute and hence the full strength of the wine that ferments is the wrath of God being poured out upon the wicked who take the mark of the beast.
In other words, the wine of today was not like the wine the Israelites (Who were faithful to God) had drunk.
While this may be true in the case for meats sacrificed to idols, we cannot ignore the warning in Scripture that says,
"And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit; " (Ephesians 5:18).
One can only get drunk (of their own free will) if they start to drink.
So while a believer does have a liberty in Christ, we are not to let our good be evil spoken of.
And it is still true that wine is a serpent that can bite you, too.
So the believing Christian who drinks socially, has to be crazy wildly careful not to be addicted and or to make other Christian brothers to stumble if they struggle with alcoholism. Meaning, if they truly love their brother, they would drink in private and not put at risk their brother in seeing them in public partaking of a drug that they struggle with.
Anyways, the safer play is always to pick up your cross, deny yourself, and follow Jesus.
But that is your call (of course).
But every man will have to give an answer to God for what he has done here upon this Earth.
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