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Originally posted by spookyfish
I'm just wondering, has anyone ever asked one of these folks to explain why Jesus changed water into wine at the Wedding at Cana, and if the Bible meant "grape juice" wouldn't it have just said so?
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Most of my extended family does not drink for religious reasons (although for my mom it is more that her dad was an abusive alcoholic and ruined her childhood). I didn't start drinking until I was an adult and even now whether I have a drink or not isn't a big deal for me.
Anyway, when I was younger I questioned this with the multitude of wine references in the Bible and was told that "wine" back then didn't have the same alcoholic content as now and was more like slightly fermented grape juice. This didn't make sense to me because the Biblical prohibitions are not against drinking wine, merely on being drunk and it didn't seem to be possible to get drunk if it was only slightly fermented. I think it is a situation where people have set up a rule to make sure there is no chance of violating what is in the Bible -- if you don't drink at all, there is no chance you will get drunk. Kinda of like Jews who keep strict kosher have separate dishes for meat and dairy when the actual law was to not boil a kid in its mother's milk.
As you may recall, I love love love LOVE jewelry so I am glad I've never gone to a no jewelry kind of church.
