Posted on 04/12/2006 8:29:39 PM PDT by Rodney King
I have officially consecrated my fifth maxim. My previous four are:
#1: Don't trust anyone who doesn't drink - unless he/she is a recovering alcoholic.
#2: Never take the side of the homosexuals- ever.
#3: Any guy who goes to see Bareback Mountin' is gay.
#4. There is no forgiveness without blame, so go ahead and point your finger.
A discussion of #4 can be found here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1544411/posts
Tonight, I was driving around in deep thought due to a divorce that is near to me (although not me) and I have been stressed at work. When stressed, I live to drive around in the country. Anyway, for various reasons, it hit me:
If God did not intend for us to drink, he would not have given us livers.
For those of you who do not believe in creation, I suppose you could modify it to "Evolution and the origin of species dictate that the liver exists for a good reason".
Anyway, that is Rodney King's maxim #5.
Works for me.
The typical wedding feast lasted days and the guests drank enormous amounts of wine. You can look at the Book of Esther to get a picture of eastern mediterranean celebrations in general (copious use of fermented beers, wines, and liqueurs, as well as ancient distilled spirits). And the story of Cana in the New Testament showed a steady supply of fermented wine as a natural, giving act of the host.
Jeremiah 13:12-14 sounds like a damn good party to me...and God says he will be the bartender to us sinners
Meanwhile Isaiah 25:6 shows paradise a feast of choice pieces, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of well-refined wines on the lees. Again, God's bartending but this time to the faithful.
Come to think of it, God is like a bartender: The Great Unseen Bartender
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