my boyfriend thinks consuming any kind of alcohol is a sin.?

Question

I'm not even a big fan of drinking but he says he wants me to never have any alcohol.

Answer 1

The sin isn't drinking. The sin is the actions taken after you get drunk. Jesus turned water into wine, didn't he?

Answer 2

Drinking is not a sin, however if you have too much, it may lead to other sinful things. You just have to know your limit. As for your boyfriend, some people think that it's bad to have any alcohol of any kind. This is not true. In fact there is a study that a glass of wine once per day is healthy for you. THis problem will be solved with time.

Answer 3

Relationships are all about give and take. People on both sides have to be willing to accept that the other person is independant from themselves. If your boyfriend asks you to never drink alcohol yet you have no real reason to, then it is up to him to accept that part of you rather than you changing your own habits for him. At the same time however you must be willing to keep an open mind about this situation. Talking further as to the reasons why he believes alcohol to be a sin not only offers you insight into his viewpoint, but also allows you to get to know him better. It could be that he manages to convince you, it could be you don't change your own viewpoint but learn to respect his, or it could be that you find yourself unable to change yourself adequately enough for what he expects of you.

Answer 4

You are responsible for your own definition of 'sin'. If your boyfriend has a convincing rationale for why drinking alcohol is a bad thing, he may be able to convince you. But just calling it a sin isn't enough. As adults, we have to make calculated judgements about what is right and wrong. Even for the most religious person, a scriptural prohibition won't account for the huge variety of human experience - EVEN for actions that many of us, religious or not, might agree on.

"Thou shalt not kill"/"thou shalt do no murder" seems simple enough, but what about self-defense? What about the death penalty? "Just" wars? The most straightforward rules turn out to be quite complicated.

Alcohol in and of itself isn't bad. It's a drug, though, and it can certainly be addictive. Misused, it can also complicate situations, be hurtful, and inappropriate. But whether or not it's wrong to drink is a matter of legality and personal choice.

It's a little worrisome that your boyfriend might want to impose this policy on you. Make sure that what's behind it isn't a larger, more serious question of limiting your control of your body. He is, by virtue of his being a man, no more qualified to make decisions about the way you live your life than you are to make decisions about his. Think of it this way: If you think drinking is okay, you wouldn't try to impose that view on him. That would be quite unfair. There's obviously no cultural or religious consensus on the use of alcohol; many quite good people drink. People who don't drink - in my experience, at least - don't have a monopoly on ethical behavior.

Also, there's no reason why you two shouldn't be able to think and act differently, with courtesy and respect. Preserve your self-respect, though.

Answer 5

Well to some people drinking alcohol is a sin. Is your boyfriend religious? Also, having a boy/girl friend is almost up there with having alcohol. Therefore, if he is living his life according to the Bible, he should live it fully not just certain information that will justify his life and complicate yours.

Answer 6

I myself drink so I definitely do not agree with him that consuming alcohol is a sin. But I will explain in another way:

At the end of three days, moving southward, you come upon Anastasia, a city with concentric canals watering it and kites flying over it. I should now list the wares that can profitably be bought here: agate, onyx, chrysoprase, and other varieties of chalcedony; I should praise the flesh of the golden pheasant cooked here over fires of seasoned cherry wood and sprinkled with much sweet marjoram; and tell of the women I have seen bathing in the pool of a garden and who sometimes - it is said - invite the stranger to disrobe with them and chase them in the water. But with all this, I would not be telling you the city's true essence; for while the description of Anastasia awakens desires one at a time only to force you to stifle them, when you are in the heart of Anastasia one morning your desires waken all at once and surround you. The city appears to you as a whole where no desire is lost and of which you are a part, and since it enjoys everything you do not enjoy, you can do nothing but inhabit this desire and be content. Such is the power, sometimes called malignant, sometimes benign, that Anastasia, the treacherous city, possesses; if for eight hours a day you work as a cutter of agate, onyx, chrysoprase, your labor which gives form to desire takes from desire its form, and you believe you are enjoying Anastasia wholly when you are only its slave.

The last line explains: "and you believe you are enjoying Anastasia wholly when you are only its slave".

Answer 7

Depends if you can compromise or it is really just a huge problem for him, see if you can talk and find a middle ground, or it may just be the one thing he cant deal with, and you need to decide whether its more important to be able to drink than to have time with your boyfriend. If thats how strongly he feels. Otherwise, try to get him drinking with you, a bottle of wine with a film perhaps, show him drinking doesnt need to be a huge sin. Good Luck.

Answer 8

This does variety from denomination to denomination. i bypass to a baptist church, and baptists are strongly against alchohol. for my section, i do no longer think of that alchohol is a sin. i think of it is ok to have a tumbler of wine at dinner, or to have a lager at a fish fry, or possibly a tumbler of champagne on New Years. i think of that the occasion way of existence is a difficulty and the Bible does say stuff approximately drunkeness. "and don't be below the effect of alcohol with wine, that's dissipation, yet be full of the Spirit." Ephesians 5:18. so a techniques as His miracle of turning water into wine, sure this became a fermented, alchoholic wine. the reason He did it became no longer for the occasion lots as for the HOST of that occasion. The host became throwing a marriage reception, and in those days, if he ran out of accomodations for his travellers, that they had the spectacular to rob his homestead. It became custom returned then. So it wasn't so as that folk ought to proceed partying lots because it became to guard the guy from dropping his homestead and money.

Answer 9

consuming alcohol in the right amount is gud for health..
but too much of it may even destroy ur senses and they may be a sin cos u know that drinking it too much will cost u a lot....and in this way it is a sin.....

afterall there is a limit for everything.....

Answer 10

Considering that they mostly drank wine in Jesus' time I hardly think it is a sin. If you consume too much then you might be pushing it a bit.