Wow.
I don’t know of alcoholism so I don’t know that a sip can send you back down to hell.
How sad. I feel for them.
I guess the equivalent non religious example would be me buying a one dollar scratch off and ending up in Atlantic City losing the mortgage money.
I DID lose rent money once upon a time when i was younger.
On more than one occasion.
It ended quite a few years before first house.
It had to be God listening to my mom, because I didn’t pray over it and she did.
I JUST LOST INTEREST one day, and I had a bad habit.
I KNOW it was God, I just don’t know why he did me the favor of letting it leave my body when I wasn’t very religions or spiritual at the time.
That helped.
With the teeny tiny cups generally used in modern Protestant communions, that’s probably true. That’s not enough alcohol to even get sleepy. They contain maybe a tablespoon at most.
There’s another modern factor, though, and that’s Antabuse. This could result in sickness even with one of those teeny tiny cups of wine. So it’s smart to use a no-alcohol symbol. I had an uncle who took Antabuse and went to a Roman Catholic church, and he would just wave the chalice by and take the wafer.
Your testimony isn’t uncommon. Praise the Lord. After enough practice taking in the Holy Spirit, the temptation is washed away.