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?
Not accusing you, you just happened to be the post I finally replied to. Just tired of things being thrown out there as “look how silly those Baptists are.”
And, unfortunately, as happens in all religions, bad leaders can take their flock way off the tracks and make them seem silly and uneducated. Focus us on their naivete.
I have been Baptist all of my life, and I know there are some that say that the wine in the Bible was just grape juice. But, the scripture clearly says wine, and I believe the accuracy of the text, and the needs of food preservation at the time. And I have never been around many Baptists that subscribed to that interpretation.
And, when that falsehood is what is promoted, the real message of control, self-restraint, temperance is missed. And by many not understood.
How can I teach my children to be wise in their decisions if I deny realities that they will easily see through?