DOES THE BIBLE CONDEMN THE USE OF ALCOHOL  OR THE ABUSE OF ALCOHOL?  READ CAREFULLY THE FOLLOWING VERSES FROM GOD’S WORD, THE BIBLE.

Genesis 9:20-21 Then Noah began farming and planted a vineyard.  He drank of the wine and became drunk, and uncovered himself inside his tent. (1st mention of  “wine” in the Bible; as intoxicating if abused)
Genesis 14:18 And Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine; now he was a priest of God Most High.
Genesis 27:25  So he said, “Bring it to me, and I will eat of my son’s game, that I may bless you.” And he brought it to him, and he ate; he also brought him wine and he drank.
Exodus 29:40 and there shall be one-tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with one-fourth of a hin of beaten oil, and one-fourth of a hin of wine for a drink offering with one lamb.
Leviticus 10:9  “Do not drink wine or strong drink, neither you nor your sons with you, when you come into the tent of meeting, so that you will not die-it is a perpetual statute throughout your generations-
Leviticus 23:13  ‘Its grain offering shall then be two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil, an offering by fire to the Lord for a soothing aroma, with its drink offering, a fourth of a hin of wine.
Numbers 6:20  ‘Then the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before the Lord. It is holy for the priest, together with the breast offered by waving and the thigh offered by lifting up; and afterward the Nazirite may drink wine.’
Numbers 15:5 and you shall prepare wine for the drink offering, one-fourth of a hin, with the burnt offering or for the sacrifice, for each lamb.
Deuteronomy 14:26  “You may spend the money for whatever your heart desires: for oxen, or sheep, or wine, or strong drink, or whatever your heart desires; and there you shall eat in the presence of the Lord your God and rejoice, you and your household.
Deuteronomy 15:14  “You shall furnish him liberally from your flock and from your threshing floor and from your wine vat; you shall give to him as the Lord your God has blessed you.
Isaiah 16:20 And Jesse took a donkey loaded with bread and a jug of wine and a young goat, and sent them to Saul by David his son.
Isaiah 25:18 Then Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves of bread and two jugs of wine and five sheep already prepared and five measures of roasted grain and a hundred cakes of figs, and loaded them on donkeys.
Proverbs 20:1 Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler, and whoever is intoxicated by it is not wise.
Proverbs 21:17 He who loves pleasure will become a poor man; He who loves wine and oil will not become rich.
Proverbs 23:20 Do not be with heavy drinkers of wine, Or with gluttonous eaters of meat;
Proverbs 23:30 Those who linger long over wine, Those who go to taste mixed wine.
Proverbs 23:31 Do not look on the wine when it is red, When it sparkles in the cup, When it goes down smoothly;
Luke 1:15  “For he will be great in the sight of the Lord; and he will drink no wine or liquor, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit while yet in his mother’s womb.
Luke 5:37-39  “And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the new wine will burst the skins and it will be spilled out, and the skins will be ruined.  “But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins.  “And no one, after drinking old wine wishes for new; for he says, ‘The old is good enough.’ ”
Luke 7:33-34  “For John the Baptist has come eating no bread and drinking no wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon!’  “The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Behold, a gluttonous man and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’
John 2:3 When the wine ran out, the mother of Jesus *said to Him, “They have no wine.”
John 2:9-10 When the headwaiter tasted the water which had become wine, and did not know where it came from (but the servants who had drawn the water knew), the headwaiter *called the bridegroom, and *said to him, “Every man serves the good wine first, and when the people have drunk freely, then he serves the poorer wine; but you have kept the good wine until now.”
Acts 2:13 But others were mocking and saying, “They are full of sweet wine.”
Acts 2:15 “For these men are not drunk, as you suppose, for it is only the third hour of the day;
1 Timothy 3:3 not addicted to wine or pugnacious, but gentle, peaceable, free from the love of money.
1 Timothy 5:23 No longer drink water exclusively, but use a little wine for the sake of your stomach and your frequent ailments.
Titus 1:7 For the overseer must be above reproach as God’s steward, not self-willed, not quick-tempered, not addicted to wine, not pugnacious, not fond of sordid gain,

The Bible clearly teaches that the abuse of alcoholic beverages is not an illness (alcoholism), but is a willful, deliberate violation of God’s commands and teachings found in His Word, the Bible.  Drunkenness is SIN and, in Galatians 5:21, this warning is given, “…envying, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these, of which I forewarn you, just as I have forewarned you, that those who practice those things SHALL NOT INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD!”   Galatians 5:16 gives us God’s solution to the sin of drunkenness:  “…walk by the Spirit, and you WILL NOT carry out the desire of the flesh.”

ABSTINENCE is never taught as a way of life for the Christian, although it may be chosen as a personal preference.  ABSTINENCE is condemned as false teaching in I Timothy 4: 1-4, and is said to have “NO VALUE” in Colossians 2:20-23.   ABSTINENCE is a religious tradition of men condemned by the Lord Jesus in Mark 7: 7-9, and is nowhere supported in the Bible.  Study the over 230 verses that mention wine, and learn the TRUTH!

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Isaiah 25:6  The Lord of hosts will prepare a lavish banquet for all peoples on this mountain; a banquet of aged wine, choice pieces with marrow, and refined, aged wine.
 

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