My Baptist coworkers insist that Jesus turned water into grape juice at Cana, never mind what the chief steward said to the groom about wasting the best wine on guests who were already snockered.
Yeah... I don’t go for that line of theological oenology.
Martin Luther seems to have had a good idea of moderation. And Jesus personally got involved enough in food and drink celebrations that He was accused of being a winebibber (and a glutton for that matter). Too much Welch’s? It doesn’t sound like it, in an age where refrigeration didn’t exist unless, maybe, you were like Rome and were powerful enough to get slaves to bring ice in.
I wouldn’t argue, but just let the grace of God make appropriate testimony. Moderation, whose exact definition depends in part on a personal toleration for alcohol, is great. Overindulgence (for whatever reason) is bad and a sin.
With tongue in cheek, the Old Lutheran website offers this:
Alcohol sterilizes. That was one of the reasons for using fermentation.
