I really think this is urban legend based on a few fringe believers. Baptists know it is wine. And the reason that Baptists generally abstain from drinking alcohol is they abstain from anything that will lead them into temptation.
If you can’t “drink” alcohol without becoming intoxicated, leading you into sin, then you should not drink alcohol.
Educated Baptists know this.
But it is easier to make fun of what you think they believe than be willing to listen to the real message.
Whoah there!!! Don’t get on your high horse now! I have HEARD Baptists and others putting forth that very thing...all in the interest of promoting a teetotaler belief.
You’re shooting from the hip my friend. For one thing, temperance is the rule we all must follow...that I agree with 100%, but to disseminate outright wrong information,like maintaining biblical wine had no alcohol is just plain wrong....and it invites ridicule from the very factions that you would hope to convert.
Maybe I’ve been exposed to a few of those “fringe believers” that you talk of....but don’t you accuse me of making fun of, or ridiculing ANY Christian believers, ok?