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As the saying goes -- 'drugs is drugs'
Just interested in your thoughts.
Actually alcohol doesn't destroy brain cells; getting drunk day after day for a considerable time will do that but that is far from the same thing.Yes, for sure! Alcohol destroys brain cells...The Bible says, "If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. God's temple is holy. And you are that temple." 1 Corinthians 3:17.
As Christians, our bodies are the temple of God and it is our responsibility to take care of our bodies...
Drinking socially is the first step towards becoming an alcoholic...and like you said...every instance of drunkenness in the Bible is associated with someone committing some pretty bad sins...
Alcohol and Christianity DON'T go together...never have and never will....Yes, there are some who want to think they have have their alcohol and still be on the road to Heaven...but sooner or later, they will find out they were wrong...I just hope they find out before it is too late...
Actually alcohol doesn't destroy brain cells; getting drunk day after day for a considerable time will do that but that is far from the same thing.
Yes, for sure! Alcohol destroys brain cells...The Bible says, "If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. God's temple is holy. And you are that temple." 1 Corinthians 3:17.
As Christians, our bodies are the temple of God and it is our responsibility to take care of our bodies...
Drinking socially is the first step towards becoming an alcoholic...and like you said...every instance of drunkenness in the Bible is associated with someone committing some pretty bad sins...
Alcohol and Christianity DON'T go together...never have and never will....Yes, there are some who want to think they can have their alcohol and still be on the road to Heaven...but sooner or later, they will find out they were wrong...I just hope they find out before it is too late...
1 Corinthians 9:4Yes, for sure! Alcohol destroys brain cells...The Bible says, "If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. God's temple is holy. And you are that temple." 1 Corinthians 3:17.
As Christians, our bodies are the temple of God and it is our responsibility to take care of our bodies...
Drinking socially is the first step towards becoming an alcoholic...and like you said...every instance of drunkenness in the Bible is associated with someone committing some pretty bad sins...
Alcohol and Christianity DON'T go together...never have and never will....Yes, there are some who want to think they can have their alcohol and still be on the road to Heaven...but sooner or later, they will find out they were wrong...I just hope they find out before it is too late...
Jesus used wine in the first communion on holy Thursday night so all of the ancient churches use wine in holy communion and it is alcoholic - as wine always has been - yet it is blessed by God like God blessed the wine at the wedding feast in Cana of Galilee. These things being so I cannot agree with you when you said "alcohol and Christianity don't go together" since in holy communion they most certainly do.Thanks for setting the record straight, MoreCoffee...it is the neurons that are affected by alcohol in the brain...not the cells themselves. Either way, alcohol isn't good for the body... Any "good" side-effect that supposedly comes from drinking alcohol, most likely comes from other healthy sources, too, WITHOUT the alcohol...
Since I want to go to heaven when I die, and since my body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, and thus to not take care of my body means I'm not on the road to Heaven, then this seems like some really serious stuff I should consider.
I understand where you are coming from, MoreCoffee.... I don't believe that when Jesus turned water into "wine" that it was alcoholic wine...I believe it was grape juice. Weddings back then lasted a week. Can you imagine people drinking for a week straight and it not turning into a drunken brawl??? Never....Jesus would not officiate at something like that....Jesus used wine in the first communion on holy Thursday night so all of the ancient churches use wine in holy communion and it is alcoholic - as wine always has been - yet it is blessed by God like God blessed the wine at the wedding feast in Cana of Galilee. These things being so I cannot agree with you when you said "alcohol and Christianity don't go together" since in holy communion they most certainly do.
I am not sure about the weddings lasting a week, in India they last a few days but those are Hindu weddings. In ancient Israel there was a wedding and a wedding feast but it lasted for part of a day and into the night. So I would not be alarmed at the Lord giving wine to the guests as part of the joyous celebration of God's ordinance of marriage. And when you say that wine 'sometimes means grape juice' that may be true but wine usually means wine and at the wedding at Cana the steward of the feast commented that "Everyone serves the good wine first, and then the inferior wine after the guests have become drunk. But you have kept the good wine until now" so the wine that Jesus made was without doubt alcoholic.I understand where you are coming from, MoreCoffee.... I don't believe that when Jesus turned water into "wine" that it was alcoholic wine...I believe it was grape juice. Weddings back then lasted a week. Can you imagine people drinking for a week straight and it not turning into a drunken brawl??? Never....Jesus would not officiate at something like that....
Wine sometimes means GRAPE JUICE in the Bible, and sometimes it means ALCOHOL. Two very different things called by the same name....makes it a little confusing sometimes!
We are defiled by what we do and say, which reflects the condition of our hearts. We are not defiled by having a bacon cheeseburger and a beer.
I admire those who stick to keeping away from alcohol and to eating a clean and healthy diet. But let's not delude ourselves into thinking that wine isn't alcoholic. There is no exegetical, historical, or scientific reason to think that wine in the Bible is anything other than alcoholic wine. That only comes from a doctrinal bias being read back into the Scriptures.
I am not sure about the weddings lasting a week, in India they last a few days but those are Hindu weddings. In ancient Israel there was a wedding and a wedding feast but it lasted for part of a day and into the night. So I would not be alarmed at the Lord giving wine to the guests as part of the joyous celebration of God's ordinance of marriage. And when you say that wine 'sometimes means grape juice' that may be true but wine usually means wine and at the wedding at Cana the steward of the feast commented that "Everyone serves the good wine first, and then the inferior wine after the guests have become drunk. But you have kept the good wine until now" so the wine that Jesus made was without doubt alcoholic.
I understand where you are coming from, MoreCoffee.... I don't believe that when Jesus turned water into "wine" that it was alcoholic wine...I believe it was grape juice. Weddings back then lasted a week. Can you imagine people drinking for a week straight and it not turning into a drunken brawl??? Never....Jesus would not officiate at something like that....
Wine sometimes means GRAPE JUICE in the Bible, and sometimes it means ALCOHOL. Two very different things called by the same name....makes it a little confusing sometimes!
I appreciate your humour but I think wine means wine and not grape juice and I already explained why I think it means wine in my previous post.What makes you think that "good wine" means alcohol? There is grape juice, and then there is REALLY GOOD GRAPE JUICE.
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