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To: elcid1970

I don’t think it’s wise to try to apply the circumstances of a wedding feast as a general rule of living. People also gorged themselves on food that night, surely, and yet the lack of denouncement from Christ does not equate to an endorsement of gluttony, or of tempting others to gluttony. There are plenty of verses that demonstrate drunkenness is not approved by God, and verses enjoining us to lead by example and not to lead others into temptation even though we have some leeway in our behavior due to Christian liberty.

Personally, I think the teetotaling churches are foolish, but I was just saying that there is some scripture which they can try to appeal to in order to support their position. I don’t think they are correct, but at least they can make a Biblical argument.


63 posted on 06/12/2012 9:57:45 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Boogieman

Drinking and dancing at a wedding feast: OK.

Going to town on Saturday to sell your crops, coming home shitfaced, and screaming at your wife and family in a drunken rage for hours on end: Not Ok.


71 posted on 06/13/2012 12:38:41 PM PDT by ichabod1 (Cheney/Rumsfeld 2012)
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