Posted on 12/10/2013 11:03:54 AM PST by Laissez-faire capitalist
If a person starts out at point x (the level at which their present imbibing of alcoholic beverages will get them drunk) and ups it to point y over a period of time (be it a short or long period of time), will God judge them by the point x sin of drunkenness or the new point at which they get drunk (point y)?
If a person gets drunk at point x, and social drinking over a period of time unintentionally causes them to develop more and more tolerance to alcohol, then must they stay at point x?
If not, is God judging some by one standard and others at a different standard? What if someone can never develop tolerance or more and more tolreance, be it intentionally or not? Can some do certain things while others can't
Can this apply to many other areas of life, where some can get away with things and others can't?
I agree with him. Go clean out your garage or something.
Without driving? While it wouldn't surprise me if Cali had a law defining drunkedness in general, not all law is godly law.
If you want to “negotiate” with God as to what level of drunkeness is “sinful,” you go right ahead. But I think you are asking the wrong question.
I just can’t help myself.....this is the absolute dumbest thing I’ve ever heard in regards to faith.
totally untrue...if you blow a breathalizer at .08, you are intoxicated, if you don't, you go on your merry way and no arrest is, nor can be, made.
Didn’t you post some other threads and get told they were dumb and inane?
Read for another year or two.
Better question, why would a Christian even consider doing this?
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Illness. PTSD and self-medication doesn’t make one any less of a Christian than cancer does for those who take radiation and chemo.
Talk about the body being a temple! Discuss.
This isn’t a question about alcoholism. I believe that there will be some alcoholics in Heaven and plenty of sober folks in Hell. Some Christians will beat alcoholism, some won’t.
This is a question about playing around with God’s law, streching the boundries to redefine what God intended.
Let’s rephrase the question just a bit to demonstrate my point.
-What does it mean to lie? If I just tell a white lie..
-How far is too far, kissing isn’t adultry, is it?
-The cashier gave me too much change. It’s not stealing, she should have been more careful!
The issue is what we saw in the garden, “did God really say… “
We could at least drink and smoke during the last great depression.
Jesus explains it to where even i can understand it.
Mathew 15
10 When He had called the multitude to Himself, He said to them, “Hear and understand:
11 Not what goes into the mouth defiles a man; but what comes out of the mouth, this defiles a man.”
I just can’t help myself.....this is the absolute dumbest thing I’ve ever heard in regards to faith.
Mathew 23
24 Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.
25 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.
19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
“. . .tolerance does increase the amount you can drink before those symptoms begin to manifest.”
Yes. . .it’s called “masking”
No, this is something completely different. Your liver actually can get more efficient at processing alcohol, so that you can drink more without reaching the concentration of alcohol in your blood (or more importantly in your brain) that would cause symptoms to appear. Of course, with sustained heavy drinking, your liver will get less efficient, so there is a point of diminishing returns.
B.S. "impaired" means impaired by coffee, tea, otc or prescription medications, body fat or whatever the cop on the side of the road wants you to be "impaired" by.
There are a lot of cases out there where people were prosecuted for DWI with a 0.000% breath or blood alcohol content.
nonsense...they were either under the influence of drugs or had an incompetant attorney!
B.S. It happens.
And by the way the word is "incompetent".
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