What did Jesus have against beer? Why turn water into wine?

Answer 1

This is an excellent question....and as a former member of a Zymurgy club (Zymurgy is the science of beer brewing) I think this is one of the many reasons that he is not the prophet as foretold by the Torah.

When a saviour does return, he/she will drink beamish, and hop devil.

Errrrrr.....I don't think there is ever going to be a saviour....but I do think I'll drink another Beemish.

Answer 2

Jesus had nothing against beer. He drank alcohol himself.

He did warn though against too many beers, getting yourself drunk and causing all sorts of trouble for yourself.

Water into wine - because his mother asked him to do something about the wine running out at the wedding he was partying at.

Answer 3

Beer was Egyptian -- wine was Jewish.

"The Egyptian era
Some 5,000 years ago in the Imperial Egypt of the Pharaohs, beer was already an important food item in the daily diet. It was made from lightly baked barley bread, and also was used as a sacrament.

People gathered in the evening to drink at a 'house of beer'. Beer was the natural drink of the country, a basic in the diet of the nobility and of the fellah (the peasant). As well as being a drink, beer was also used as medicine. A medical document which was written in about 1,600 BC lists about 700 prescriptions of which about 100 contained the word 'beer'.

The Egyptians also provided their dead with food and beer. An old Egyptian tomb bears the inscription: "....satisfy his spirit with beef and fowl, bread and beer". In the taverns or houses of beer in Egypt, the favourite toast was "Here's to your ghost".

Beer also had status - a keg of beer was considered the only proper gift to be offered to the Pharaoh by a suitor seeking the hand of a royal princess. 30,000 gallons a year was also offered as a fitting gift to the Gods by Pharaoh Rameses II (1,200 BC). It is recorded that a similar amount was also offered to appease the gods when they became angry.

Isis, the nature goddess, was Egypt's patroness of beer brewing and an important civic official was charged with the task of maintaining the quality of beer, an integral part of everyday life and religion.

Other references to beer from Egyptian times include mention of beer brewed from barley in the Egyptian's Book of the Dead, and many ancient Egyptian wall hangings also depict the brewing of beer."

Answer 4

This is, perhaps, the most Jewish thing ever reported in the life of Jesus. The verse is a metaphor...although one never taught in christian circles as they prefer to accept the miracle of good catering instead.

The metaphor is thus: water is an allusion to the Torah...on a simple level. Wine is an allusion to the Torah on a deeper level. To say one 'turned water into wine' is to say that one expounded upon the hidden meanings in the Torah. Of course, the metaphor has its dark side...because if one isn't careful and takes too much wine too fast, one becomes 'drunk' and misuses what he has learned. Jesus' followers were guilty of this in their zeal to elevate Jesus to the status of the divine.

Answer 5

there are 2 kinds of wine in the bible the old wine and new wine, but the one prohibited by God is the old wine. In 1Corinthians 6:9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
1Co 6:10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
1Co 6:11 And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
Saint Paul was talking to the early Christian, you will see on that verse that he only mention some wrong doing and telling them that some of them are like that before, right. As a Christian we must be clean in the eyes of the Lord, so to avoid committing sin we must avoid where a sin starts, when we drink liquor there is possibility that we will be got drunk in became drunkards, so to avoid being drunkards we should get away from drinking liquor, right, read this verses
Eph 5:18 And be not drunken with wine, wherein is riot, but be filled with the Spirit;
1Th 5:22 abstain from every form of evil.
So there is a form already or appearance of evil in drinking liquor, you might be drunk, so avoid it, as it is written in 1Th5:22.


1Ti 3:8 Likewise must the deacons be grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;
In this verse it is said WINE , there are two kinds of wine in the bible, one is the new and old,
Luk 5:37 And no man putteth new wine into old bottles; else the new wine will burst the bottles, and be spilled, and the bottles shall perish.
Luk 5:38 But new wine must be put into new bottles; and both are preserved.
Luk 5:39 No man also having drunk old wine straightway desireth new: for he saith, The old is better.

So God allow the early Christian to drink wine the new one which you will not be intoxicated or got drunk, unlike the alcohol you talking about.

Luke 1:15 For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink; and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother's womb.

See that in Luke 1:15, WINE or STRONG DRINK.

So used common sense or logic: What will God let his people drink or used as symbol of prosperity and security. the new wine or the old wine that can make you drunk in can cause trouble.

In the bible it is not specific whether it is a new wine or old wine, however you your self know what kind of wine was used in the verses, When Jesus make the water into wine

Answer 6

Nothing, probably. But it was the Egyptians who loved their beer. Hebrews, Greeks, Romans, etc. preferred wine for daily AND celebratory use. NOBODY drank the water!

Answer 7

The wine they'd drink then grew to become into diverse from the wine of right this moment. It grew to become into generally a sparkling press, so greater like grape juice then wine. It had lots much less alcohol, and by using the unsanitary circumstances of water, grew to become into under the effect of alcohol greater. i do no longer think of that's a sin to drink, yet I prefer to no longer. i think of ingesting isn't amazing, and because i comprehend that alcoholism has ran in my kinfolk, i do no longer even p.c. to offer an threat for that to ensue to me. Wine, whilst used interior the ultimate way, and interior the ultimate context, isn't undesirable. it is whilst it is taken to get right of entry to that's the challenge.

Answer 8

I don't think he had anything against beer. The people wanted wine so he delivered, I believe.

Answer 9

I thought you needed something to ferment to make either. Did what did Jesus put in the bacteria infested water to make it wine?

Answer 10

No beer back then....beer came later according to the travel channel.