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BibleGateway.com - Passage*Lookup: Prov 31:6-7


Just a little some thing I came across... I just want to know your opinion on it... Could I be mis-interpreting it....

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Skrrp

I would say that's pretty cut and dried wasted.

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Madness

Sweet. God loves a tipple =D

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Skrrp

Hey, even the big J-man made wine for the wedding.

The real answer is a health one, not a religious one though. For a long period, the only way to make water safe to drink was either by boiling it or making beer. People generally drank nothing but beer or wine.

You might think they were all permanently sozzled, but for general use they made short beer, with a volume of about 1~1.5% (think even worse than American low-alcohol beers). They would drink this during the day while working, and move on to the stronger beers and wines at night, or for a festival.

When tea and coffee were discovered and trading began, there was actually something that would make boiled water interesting and the Temperance Movement was born. The trouble was, most of the Temperance cafes sold tea and coffee at higher prices than most pubs sold beer, so the poor people continued to drink the beer.

Fun fact: Scotland is renowned for its whisky production. The fact that there are so many distilleries there is that for a period (sometime in the 1700~1800s) there was no exciseman posted there, and every bugger started their own still.

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Stands_alone

To add on to skrrp, the wine was about as strong as grape juice back then and didn't really do much for you. There some stronger ones, but the "wine" Jesus made was probably like drinking grape juice to us.

The bible doesn't rebuke drinking, just drunkenness. Now the only reason I drink is to get drunk!

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Skrrp

Amen to that brother.

Mine's a double.

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SaiyajinPerfection

The Bible encourages quite a few things actually.

Leviticus says that eating shrimp is an abomination.

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Inu

Duane Garrett, Professor of Old Testament at the Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, summarizes the context.

“The queen-mother does not recommend a free beer program for the poor or justify its use as an opiate for the masses; her point is simply that the king must avoid drunkenness in order to reign properly. The comparison to the suffering poor and to their use of alcohol is meant to awaken Lemuel to the duties that go with his class and status rather than to describe some kind of permissible drunkenness” (“Proverbs,” The New American Commentary, Vol. 14. Broadman: Nashville, p. 246).

Does the Bible Recommend Drinking Alcoholic Beverages? : ChristianCourier.com

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Madness

It is. The fuckers look back at you O_O

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Skrrp

See the religion thread for all the batshiat crazy things Leviticus orders.

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gogitass4

i have never read the bible and i nevr will.

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SaiyajinPerfection

I read it simply for debate purposes.

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Skrrp

I will use it as a reference when people quote chapter and verse at me. Except I use an annotated one.

The trouble is, I start quoting it (usually in Skype religion rooms), and at least one whiny biatch will pipe up with 'well, that's not what's in my personal copy' (usually NAV). They can't hack the old style language.

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Empathy

If you take any short quote like that out of the Bible, you can claim the Bible encourages rape, murder, and stealing. It's called taking a quote out of context.

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SSJBulma

Oh what does it say about prawns

6 Give beer to those who are perishing,
wine to those who are in anguish

I think it's more of a 'love thy neighbour' thing than anything else.
Give someones a drink/comfort when they look like they need it. Not exactly "get em bladdered bitches"

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