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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.
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.
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.
I don’t know what He drank, but for the last few years I’ve favored watered down wine. Anywhere from 50 to 75% water, depending on the wine. It keeps the clean high notes intact and slakes my thirst far better than plain water.
I’m guessing the wine at Cana was a 100 on the Robert Parker scale.
Whatever the varietal, what is certain is that there was “barnyard” on the nose.
Though wild grapevines have grown on the Italian peninsula since prehistory, historians are unable to determine precisely when domestic viticulture and winemaking first occurred. It is possible that the Mycenaean Greeks had some influences through early settlements in southern Italy, but the earliest recorded evidence of Greek influence dates to 800 BC. Viticulture was widely entrenched in Etruscan civilization, which was centered around the modern winemaking region of Tuscany.
Because the ancient Greeks saw wine as a staple of domestic life and a viable economic trade commodity, their settlements were encouraged to plant vineyards for local use and trade with the Greek city-states. Southern Italy’s abundance of indigenous vines provided an ideal opportunity for wine production, giving rise to the Greek name for the region: Oenotria (”land of vines”).
Source: Wikipedia
I imagine the “wine he created” would be an ideal or “perfect” wine and not the relative swill of the day.
Of course, if he were here now: Stoli martini, two olives.
These days?
He might be hitting the white lightning out of despair for humanity.