Rewind: Did People Drink Alcohol in the First Century?

Christians and Drinking Alcohol in the First Century

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Wine, Strong Drink, and the First-Century Use of Alcohol

This week we'll deal with the question of Christians and drinking of alcohol. Now first, anytime we have to deal with this, we have to first start with the fact that there are some people who believe that in the first century Jesus did not drink alcohol and did not make water into wine.

There are some people who try to argue that no one that's a Christian should ever drink alcohol nor ever did drink alcohol. That wouldn't be true. In the first century, alcohol had a very specific benefit.

It was to kill dysentery in the water. And the majority of people would drink wine. The wine was water with a little bit of alcohol. Now it is not the same alcohol content we have today. However, as we see in such as Proverbs 20 verse 1, it says, wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler, and whoever is led astray is not wise.

What you see there is two different distinctions. Wine and strong drink. Wine was what would be watered down wine to the wine we have today. But there was alcohol that people drank and they did it to get drunk.

That would be your strong drink as opposed to the water they would have which would have some alcohol content in it. Now later in the week we're going to address the question of can a Christian drink alcohol?

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