Rewind: Is Drinking Alcohol a Sin?

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See website for details. Welcome to The Rapid Bull, daily edition, where we provide a quick biblical interpretations and applications.

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This is a ministry of striving for eternity. As we had a question that was emailed to us, can

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Christians drink alcohol? This week, we want to address that question. Yesterday, we saw that there is a distinction in the first century between wine and strong drink, and that people did drink wine commonly for the fact that they wanted to kill dysentery in the water.

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Now, we know that Jesus created water into wine, and we know that that wine did contain alcohol because we see that even at the wedding feast, the person in charge was surprised by the good taste in wine, saying that people bring the bad stuff later after people have drunk.

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And so, this clearly shows that they had this wine and knew that it had some alcohol content to it.

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The question is, is alcohol itself a sin? No, you do not see that in scripture.

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You see drunkenness as sin. In fact, Paul encourages Timothy in 1

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Timothy 5 .23. He says, no longer drink only water, but use a little wine for the sake of your stomach and your frequent ailments.

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In other words, he's telling him to drink a wine to prevent the dysentery, because to try to keep his testimony,

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Timothy was having only water, and he was getting sick. Paul is encouraging him to have wine for his stomach's sake.

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In other words, drink a little bit to kill the dysentery. Wine served that purpose, and so it is not always a sin.

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