[RightOnline]

"He drank wine. Why not beer?"

Now now, my friend........you know better. That wasn't fermented wine as we know it; not the wine that Jesus drank. Well known fact, well established.

[Dinsdale]

Now now, my friend........you know better. That wasn't fermented wine as we know it; not the wine that Jesus drank. Well known fact, well established.

Nonsense. Jesus drank wine. Fermented wine with alcohol in it.

Jesus would drink better beer then Budweiser though.

[ItisaReligionofPeace]

Did people not get drunk in Jesus' times then? I have heard your argument (are you a Southern Baptist by any chance) before and I think there are many holes in it...

[AnAmericanMother]

Hang on a sec. I know some of my hardshell Baptist friends say that the wine in the Bible was "fruit of the vine" and therefore not fermented, but that can't be right in view of what the bridegroom's steward said at the Marriage at Cana in John 2 - to the effect of "everybody else serves the good wine first, and then when the guests are drunk and don't care, the rotgut. But you have saved the best for last." The Greek word in John 2:10 is methuo, which means drunk, intoxicated.

And surely what Jesus and the disciples were drinking at the Last Supper was wine . . . "fruit of the vine" is traditionally fermented (it didn't keep otherwise).

[StoneColdGOP]

Grape flavored "Kool-Aid", right?

[Conservative til I die]

The Last Supper says Hi. And the Catholic Church serves and has served wine as part of the Eucharist for the last 1950 years for a reason.