As I pointed out, the word for drunken is 'methuo.'
'Methuo' has other meanings as well; one of them being 'drink well.'
When ye come together therefore into one place, [this] is not to eat the Lord's supper.
For in eating every one taketh before [other] his own supper: and one is hungry, and another is drunken. What? have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or despise ye the church of God, and shame them that have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I praise [you] not.
(1 Corinthians 11:20-22)
If Paul was speaking of drunkenness, he would have not told them they could drink at home; he would have told them drunkenness was a sin.
He did not tell them drunkenness was a sin.
He did not reprimand them for drunkenness.
He reprimanded them for their gluttony.
If it was for drunkenness, the context would show Paul was saying don't get drunk at church, stay home and get drunk.
Context shows that
Paul was addressing gluttony, not drunkenness.
But he DID tell them they could drink at home! Not in a drunken and gluttonous manner but they could drink.
And I think from the text it is clear that they could drink more at home appropriately than at church.
moderation fits every passage.
Your view requires a twisting of every passage.
Wrong!
if Paul was addressing their drunkenness, then context would be telling them to sin.
Paul would be saying, "For in eating every one taketh before [other] his own supper: and one is hungry, and another is drunk.
Do you not house to get drunk in?"
Context and common sense shows they were not drunk.
It changed from juice to alcohol when man decided he wanted to bring his vices into the sanctuary and defile God's Church.
It changed again when the temperance movement began back in the 1800's.
Sadly, the temperance movement was again eventually recanted and people once again began disobeying God's Word by bringing alcoholic beverage into the institution known as the Lord's Supper.
Going from wine to grape juice is a fairly recent event....now SFIC must show that for hundreds of years all churches were wrong and had defiled the Church.
Leviticus 10:8-11
8And the LORD spake unto Aaron, saying,
9Do not drink wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations:
10And that ye may put difference between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean;
11And that ye may teach the children of Israel all the statutes which the LORD hath spoken unto them by the hand of Moses.
SFIC has a Biblical case. Why would God tell His priests not to drink it and then God the Son do so at the Last Supper? Answer is, He wouldn't. Verse 9 says do not drink it. It says nothing about drunkenness. Then in context verse 10 gives us reason why. To know what is clean and unclean, holy and unholy. Therefore it is Unholy to do so. Was Christ unholy? I should think not.
That actually proves the point of moderation. It was ok at normal times but not then.
And even at that, it does not prove your point: look at this passage about meats: