...wine was really grape juice stuff that filled the seminaries in the 1970s.
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I remember hearing that one from Baptists when I was a kid in the 1950s.
It was probably around then also. The big push arrived in the mid-70s though. And that might have been when the seminaries started having folks pushing it. It is a truly uneducated thing to even push and I shake my head every time it comes around...like a piece of spam e-mail. I'm thinking people probably started it as a way to respond to "why we don't drink alchohol". Again, certainly an uneducated argument. I also could never figure out if it wasn't really alcohol then why the admonishments about not getting drunk.in Scripture...unless it was too much "grape" juice can cause bowels discomfort - sarcasm.