It can be assumed Jesus drank wine, both because of the processes and the custom available. He certainly offered it, as did God. It's a bringer of joy to the heart according to the Bible. The only self-prohibition from just drinking wine I know of was the Rekobites in Jerimiah. God specifically commanded they be offered wine, but they refused for their family beliefs. Daniel abstained temporarily because of who offered it, not because of what it was. Lot and Noah were drunks and abusers, but if anything, that served as a lesson. Leviticus does give a specific example of a time when God commanded certain people for a certain reason not to drink wine at all. I'm not Aaron or his sons, nor do I plan on entering the tent of meeting. Nor am I a king and ruler as it says in Proverbs (even though that was is so they don't "forget what has been decreed"). Still waiting for a valid verse. This seems a little futile. Are people arguing that wine is bad and a sin or that drinking wine is bad or a sin or that getting drunk is a sin?
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post
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