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but to suppose that simply for that reason ( even if true) Christians should not drink is not really viable.
In many cases, it is actually illegal to sell to or serve someone who has clearly had too much. Although, many times that is not enforced else we would not have near as many drunks on the weekends.
Usually, the LAW defines the line as either .008 BAC or when you are too impaired to drive safety for driving and everything else is just sort of a judgement call by the person serving.
So if you owe a grocery store you are giving someone the opportunity to commit gluttony.
And here I was under the impression that you were only 18 turning 19. I need to read more carefully.
There is a difference between being saved and serving God. I would not want to do anything to harm people. So I would not want to sell alcohol or cigarettes and so on. I had one pastor that did not see anything wrong with that. He said that in his Bible school there were people working in convince stores while they were going to Bible college. For me, my own personal conviction is that I do not want to profit off of harming others. I want to do something to help people, not harm them.
The drinking age in all of the US is 21 and that is where she lives.18 is the legal drinking age in many places
I said country, not county. Bourbon county itself is a wet county. Every county on the Bourbon Trail is wet. I don't live in a dry county but, until very recently, my parent's county (which borders mine) was dry. Kentucky still has some dry counties around. No lie, two of my great-uncles were competing bootleggers back in the day.
First of all, there is sin in everything, considering that there is sin in people, meaning sin nature, that's there even when we are saved through faith and Grace (1 John 1:8). I mean people are the crown of creation, and just as Jesus said, if master of the house is called Beelzebub, how much more are the dwellers of it. So, there is naturally an error or sin everywhere, it is an inescapable fact. It's like quitting your job as a manager because you have to sometimes fire people who have families. I am not saying it is ok to do that, all I am saying that it is all down to how the person deals with the guilt of it. The problem with modern Christianity, and naturally your own perception in regard to the matter, dear Ceasar montelongo, is that sin is viewed as something objective, external, while in reality it's not, but a sin to someone may not be a sin to someone else. In other words sin is only "guilt", i.e. a subjective experience, depending on whether God decides to give the person guilt about an action or not. Same action in one person may not cause guilt while in another person will: "One person considers one day more sacred than another; another considers every day alike. Each of them should be fully convinced in their own mind", "I am convinced, being fully persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean in itself. But if anyone regards something as unclean, then for that person it is unclean". Not that guilt is sin, but that guilt becomes sin if not removed quickly enough: "Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death". Of course you are free to question, doubt and even reject this, but in the end, you will find out that this is truth: "As surely as I live,' says the Lord, 'every knee will bow before me; every tongue will acknowledge God".
