As you probably know Jesus was familiar with wine. There was the notable miracle that he performed when he turned water into wine and then their were his detractors. However the most interesting fact is since Jesus could miraculously heal the alcohol had no effect on him.
Buy many people make assumptions then pull the cork. The fact is safe to drink water was very difficult to find in those days unless you mixed it with alcohol. Of course alcohol can be good for curing certian stomach ailments such as ulcers.
I am aware of certain ancient writings concerning this issue. It was considered extreem by the temperate to drink wine straight so they mixed it with water and the writer described the taste as sweet besides the obvious savings of diluting the costs. 2 Maccabees 15:39.
The not so obvious fact is they could not get drunk on diluted wine. God does not approve of drunkeness. The sins and debauchery that comes of this. I've even heard of wife swapping for a night. Evil.
This can even be expanded in greater detail showing strong evidence that alcohol is the greatest cause of the collapse of moral and proper society today. Pain is a teacher that can teach one that such shouldn't do something however alcohol and other drugs are pain killers that can interfere with this learning process thus showing themselves as the leading cause in distortion of what would otherwise be normal human behavior as can be readily deduced from observation of one who is drunk and exhibiting the associated loss of coordination and distorted behavior and even loss of consciousness.
Of course I do recognize that their are some who would take issue with my use of the description of normal behavior here but I contribute this entirely to the success of alcohol in creating this deviation from normal behavior. This very same pattern of effect also exhibits itself in the human sex drive in which one would notice jealousy and its normal effect of inhibiting the desire for multiple partner sex while on the other hand we see this desire overcome by the narcotic effects of this same sex drive to the point of creating a deviant morality that most readily succumb to and take multiple sex partners over their life spans.
An example of this is divorce and surrounding events of it's cause. I've seen with my own eyes how alcohol in such a situation will contribute in a negative way removing the healing effects of any emotional pain thus causing the situation to rapidly progress to the worst possible conclusion being complete relationship breakdown being from an obvious cause and that being the one who is drunk simply doesn't care. I further suggest that alcohol is the single greatest reason why full grown men would form large close friendships with other men when otherwise they'd have no interest in doing it, instead of spending time with the wife and being involved in other more useful ventures that would leave little time for 'shooting the bull' as one would say.
Their is one thing that all people who are going to Heaven have in common and that is self control. People who cannot control themselves in one way will fail to control themselves in other ways. People do more harm to themselves than do harm to others and many are ignorant of this. Ignorance is a curse than will leave one stumbling through life pleading for a break and giving someone else the blame and when it is out of control it can even cause chaos for others.
Their is an old saying and a good one and it is that evil companions corrupt good morals. The best way to deal with temptation is the keep it at a distance.
This is enough for now and I may add more the next time this cycles through publication. I republish posts from time to time when I can improve them but the fundamental message never changes.
Buy many people make assumptions then pull the cork. The fact is safe to drink water was very difficult to find in those days unless you mixed it with alcohol. Of course alcohol can be good for curing certian stomach ailments such as ulcers.
I am aware of certain ancient writings concerning this issue. It was considered extreem by the temperate to drink wine straight so they mixed it with water and the writer described the taste as sweet besides the obvious savings of diluting the costs. 2 Maccabees 15:39.
The not so obvious fact is they could not get drunk on diluted wine. God does not approve of drunkeness. The sins and debauchery that comes of this. I've even heard of wife swapping for a night. Evil.
This can even be expanded in greater detail showing strong evidence that alcohol is the greatest cause of the collapse of moral and proper society today. Pain is a teacher that can teach one that such shouldn't do something however alcohol and other drugs are pain killers that can interfere with this learning process thus showing themselves as the leading cause in distortion of what would otherwise be normal human behavior as can be readily deduced from observation of one who is drunk and exhibiting the associated loss of coordination and distorted behavior and even loss of consciousness.
Of course I do recognize that their are some who would take issue with my use of the description of normal behavior here but I contribute this entirely to the success of alcohol in creating this deviation from normal behavior. This very same pattern of effect also exhibits itself in the human sex drive in which one would notice jealousy and its normal effect of inhibiting the desire for multiple partner sex while on the other hand we see this desire overcome by the narcotic effects of this same sex drive to the point of creating a deviant morality that most readily succumb to and take multiple sex partners over their life spans.
An example of this is divorce and surrounding events of it's cause. I've seen with my own eyes how alcohol in such a situation will contribute in a negative way removing the healing effects of any emotional pain thus causing the situation to rapidly progress to the worst possible conclusion being complete relationship breakdown being from an obvious cause and that being the one who is drunk simply doesn't care. I further suggest that alcohol is the single greatest reason why full grown men would form large close friendships with other men when otherwise they'd have no interest in doing it, instead of spending time with the wife and being involved in other more useful ventures that would leave little time for 'shooting the bull' as one would say.
Their is one thing that all people who are going to Heaven have in common and that is self control. People who cannot control themselves in one way will fail to control themselves in other ways. People do more harm to themselves than do harm to others and many are ignorant of this. Ignorance is a curse than will leave one stumbling through life pleading for a break and giving someone else the blame and when it is out of control it can even cause chaos for others.
Their is an old saying and a good one and it is that evil companions corrupt good morals. The best way to deal with temptation is the keep it at a distance.
This is enough for now and I may add more the next time this cycles through publication. I republish posts from time to time when I can improve them but the fundamental message never changes.
