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Originally Posted by chette777
there are however Biblical guidlines for drinking. the Bible says wine is to be given those with a heavy heart and strong drink to those who are dying.
God never says the sin is drinking, again it is drunkeness for if drinking were a sin and look at this verse if God were against the drinking he would be wrong to say this to Israel, And thou shalt bestow that money for whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strongdrink, or for whatsoever thy soul desireth: and thou shalt eat there before the LORD thy God, and thou shalt rejoice, thou, and thine household, Duet. 14:26.
Great to hear you are set free fro the sin of drukeness and given your background even one drink would be to much for your adictive personality. most of us have that problem and it is best we don't drink at all. My testamony of coming out of drug addiction and alcoholism points only one sorce of my deliverance and that is my Lord Jesus Christ.and he drank wine ocasionally
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God did indeed tell the Israelites to go and buy wine and strong drink. But He certainly was not condoning an alcoholic wine or alcoholic strong drink.
Deuteronomy 29:6 tells us they drank no wine, nor strong drink.
Deuteronomy 32:14 tells us what they drank... the pure blood of the grape.
Clearly, they did not drink alcoholic wines or alcoholic strong drinks, but rather the unfermented juice of the grape!
Deuteronomy 32:33 calls the alcoholic wine poison, yet what the Israelites drank was pure... not poisonous.
And we know alcohol is poisonous to the organs of the body.