Originally posted by aggie03
"so as to live the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for the lusts of men, but for the will of God. For the time already past is sufficient for you to have carried out the desire of the Gentiles, having pursued a course of sensuality, lusts, drunkenness, carousing, drinking parties and abominable idolatries."
-- 1 Peter 4:2,3
Corousing[sp] can be defined as social drinking. Drinking parties are also listed. This would be the Bible saying, explicitly rather than by example, that we should not consume alcohol.
Proverbs defines drunkeness as a recognizable condition which is accomplished through excess:
Do not be with heavy drinkers of wine, or with gluttonous eaters of meat; - Proverbs 23:20, NASB, bolding mine
Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaining? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes? Those who linger long over wine, those who go to taste mixed wine. - Proverbs 23:29&30, NASB, bolding mine
Your eyes will see strange things and your mind will utter perverse things. - Proverbs 23:33, NASB, bolding mine
Carousing is excessive consumption of alcohol that leads to drunkeness. You say that social drinking is always equal to carousing. What if each person only has 1 or 2 alcoholic drinks, not rendering any of the participants recognizably intoxicated? Would you consider that scenario to be social drinking AND carousing?
So now there are examples and direct commands against consuming alcohol.
And what am I to think of this statement?
Give strong drink to him who is perishing, and wine to him whose life is bitter. Let him drink and forget his poverty and remember his trouble no more. - Proverbs 31:6&7, NASB
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