Drinking Alcohol Moderately

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I don't think you should drink alcohol simply because you like the taste of alcohol. What about drug users who simply like the way they feel when they get high on drugs?

Unfortunately, there are some parents who don't drink at all who have children who end up drinking. It is simply because those children have chosen to rebel and want to fit in with their friends. One of my mom's good friends who is very against alcohol taught both of her sons that they should never drink at all. Things changed when her oldest son went away to college. He met a lot of people there and joined a fraternity. He decided to start drinking becuase he didn't want to be different from his friends. It was very important to him that he fit in with them. He also hung out with the wrong crowd. He ended up having sex before marriage. This was not the way he raised.

It is very sad, but some strong Christian parents do end up with children who become wild. You will find that some pastors' kids have become wild. I think the main thing that messes up them is when they want to do things their own way and hang out with the wrong crowd. Look at this verse: Do not be deceived: "Bad company corrupts good morals." (1 Corinthians 15:33) College can be a bad influence on young people.

I am so grateful that my parents never drank alcohol while my sister and I grew up. My dad did drink alcohol earlier in his life and before he became a Christian and got married. I asked him why he used to drink and he said that he just followed what his dad did. I have no idea if my dad ever got drunk, but he believes that drinking alcohol moderately is wrong.

In my research, many young people who drink usually come from homes that were not really strict about drinking alcohol.

 

That was interesting. I don't agree with her on some things. I do agree that women should not dress like a man. But the truth is I think that many of the pants and shorts you find are feminine. I think it is important that women dress modestly. Leslie Ludy who wrote "When God Writes Your Love Story" with her husband, Eric has strongly encouraged women to dress modestly. But she doesn't hold the belief that pants or shorts are wrong. I've seen her two times in person. She wears pants. You can find some information about Eric and Leslie Ludy's ministry at http://setapartgirl.com/home.html.

I think that many modern swimsuits are immodest.

My mom wears dress pants to church. She has a bad hip problem and it is very hard for her to fit on a dress for that reason.

I feel this is not related to drinking alcohol at all, but I thought I'd share how I feel about this.

I have started a new posting about women dressing modestly at http://www.baptistboard.com/showthread.php?p=1589164#post1589164.

 

You have a very good point. I agree with you. I think many people have misconceptions about alcohol. It is so sad about how many young people end up drinking. One of my sister's friends believed in drinking moderately, but he ended up drunk. Many young people who believe in drinking moderately end up becoming drunk.

Here's some information I've researched:

I read how Noah made some wine from vineyard in the bible a while ago. It was alcoholic of course because he got drunk. I believe that it became fermented in heat so it became fermented wine. But I don’t think it became fermented wine immediately because the fermentation process takes a while. I believe Noah drank a lot of fermented wine. Lot certainly got drunk. His daughters had incest sex with him (what a horrible thing). But there are some puzzling things to me. It is my understanding that the alcoholic content today is much higher than the drinks in the bible because wineries and breweries often add more alcoholic content to them. When I was in college, one day the teacher had a class discussing different alcoholic drinks. The students talked about how better drinks were when they had higher alcoholic content. There was no distilled alcohol then. The wine was made from grapes and fermented in heat. We know it was very hot in Egypt and Israel at times of course.

I do believe that there were some alcoholic drinks in the biblical times. But I don’t think that 100% of the wine was fermented because it usually takes a few days for it to become fermented. The grapes must rot and ferment. Both unfermented wine (Grape juice) and fermented wine existed. There is one thing we need to also consider about the biblical times. Water was bad. There was no purification system then. It was actually best to drink unfermented or fermented wine then. There is one positive thing about alcohol is that it kills germs. You know nurses often rub alcohol on your arm before giving you a shot. Dr. John MacArthur, a pastor in California talks about how people often diluted alcohol in the bible with water.

I have done some research on the wedding that Jesus was at and I found a good article at http://www.learnthebible.org/jesus-and-wine.html. I think the wine at this wedding was unfermented and high quality grape juice because He made it immediately and didn’t use fermentation. I also think if it was alcoholic that some people at the wedding would have gotten drunk. Jesus is perfect and sinless. He certainly would not have made alcoholic wine to lead people to become drunk. There are a lot of scriptures especially in Proverbs that talk about the dangers of wine. I decided to experiment tasting two different grape juices recently. One tasted sour and one other tasted very good. I have never tried wine and I am not going to do that. I really believe God is grieved at how many alcohol problems we have in the world today.

I have found some articles on how to make wine at http://www.ehow.com/how_2258656_make-grape-wine.html and http://www.winehaven.com/WineMakingProcess2378.php (winery).