Posted on 04/02/2015 2:21:42 PM PDT by EveningStar
Full title: What would Jesus drink? Experts guess what wine was like in ancient times and what modern ones are similar
Christ was a vintner.
And if you heed the Scriptures, quite a good one, according to the maitre d' at the wedding in Cana. "... the headwaiter called the bridegroom and said to him, 'Everyone serves good wine first, and then when people have drunk freely, an inferior one; but you have kept the good wine until now.'" (John 2:9-10).
In ancient times, wine was precious and revered, mentioned more than 140 times in the Bible. As Easter and Passover draw near, thoughts turn to the vine and curious minds reel.
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He drank whatever wine was offered to Him... Yes it was alcoholic not grape juice..
We had a SBC pastor preach to us years ago on the wedding. He said, “An then Jesus turned the water into pure unfermented grape juice!”
We tried not to laugh in church.
I think wine and beer were watered-down a lot more in the past than they are now. In many cases, the water was not safe to drink without getting sick.
I just read where they found some ancient grape seeds from that area. The wine was famous back then. The modern grapes are very different I guess. They hope to replicate the old grapes from the seeds they found.
Yeah, I’ve always wondered how the Baptists get that stuff about “non-alcoholic” wine from anyway?
And why would the Bible have admonitions about the overindulgence of wine? “Be not drunk on wine”...and other examples?
Jesus has the speed advantage, but I can turn water into potable alcohol in three days.
The water wasn't always safe back then. Instead they drank the juice from the grapes. As the juice aged, it naturally turned to wine because of the natural yeast it has on it's skin and the natural sugar contained in the fruit.
When the wine turned, it was still safer to drink than the water. The bible does say not to tarry too long at the wine flask, though. After it turned, people were not to go crazy with it.
Had they a way to keep the grape juice fresh so it wouldn't ferment, I'm sure they would have preferred the juice rather than the wine, because the next stage of the ferment is vinegar. (The wine/vinegar mix they offered Christ to drink while hanging on the cross).
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Apparently the Baptist belief grew out of the American temperance movement in the 19th Century. Even the early Mormons drank wine. Throw in the teetotaller’s prescription that all, any, alcohol is both evil & sinful, and......
Baptists will turn into pretzels trying to explain the wedding feast at Cana. The colloquy between the chief steward & the bridegroom (who was criticized for wasting the fine wine on already sozzled guests) drives them nuts until one exclaims, “Would Jesus create something as evil as alcohol?” They also seize on the “new wine in new wineskins” verse & assert that wherever the term “new wine” appears, it really means grape juice.
Dude was a walking dispenser machine.. Dontcha know. He farted rainbows and turned grapes into mighty fine wine. He made a goat into a unicorn once.. Mattel didn’t buy the concept. Whos gonna buy into a crazy concept like that?
If nothing else he could read a man’s heart.. And accept the fate of each man’s soul. And never miss a beat.
One thing Jesus didn’t do was mix truth with lies.
Remember how and why Michael Jackson gave little boys Jesus juice?
The translation “drink freely” of John 2.10 is ambiguous. You could “drink freely” of water. The implication is that the guests are getting drunk.
Hey, my tee-totaling Baptist Grandmother assured me that the wine mentioned in the Bible was just grape juice like Welch’s/
Thanks EveningStar.
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