Do you think it is a sin to drink?

Question

Personally, I don't drink...anymore...not because of a religious conviction but from an addictive personality. However, I don't think it is a sin to drink...Jesus turned water into wine and he was without sin. I've heard people claim that he did that because the water was polluted...okay...why the hell didn't he just make clean water? Don't be an idiot. Jesus turned water into wine at a celebration...a wedding to be correct. I don't believe drinking is a sin...I do think drinking too much is a sin. Excess is gluttony...think about it

Answer 1

i drink, therefore i am.

Answer 2

Drinking or getting Drunk?

Fine line 4 sure ... but prior to the Industrial Revolution when Water Sanitation Plantations were created and mass distributed ... well, fermenting grapes and grains was the way mankind got liquids.

Ah, each individual has a sin/ vice/ addiction that they are more afflicted with than most. So, when I drink my 3 ounces of red wine with my 5 ounces of steak ... I'm not getting drunk or damaging my body. In fact research says this is healthy and the red wine is healthy to keep me young and fit.

Now, when my buddy who is a recovering alcohalic drinks that wine with me ... they might go on a drinking binge and not stop at 3 ounces ... finish the bottle ... get more ... and in a drunken state hurt others. Then drinking is bad (sinful).

Again, each of us has a unique attraction to sin (addiction, vice, wrong-doing) and each sin is tailored to the person. Yes gluttony when they binge drink ... also lust when they watch a commerical and drool over beer ... some recovering alcohalics are overly judgemental ... so, alcohal is very subjective to the individual.

Answer 3

Jesus grew to grow to be water into wine at a wedding ceremony, and He gave wine to his disciples on the perfect Supper, so ingesting wine fairly is clearly ok. I presume beer is wonderful, too, because it has even decrease alcohol content cloth than wine. notwithstanding it is also clean that acquiring inebriated habitually is a sin, and the Bible incorporates numerous warnings adverse to imbibing "solid drink." So, if someone can't end at some drinks, it *might want to* be a sin for them to drink in any respect.

Answer 4

It is the results of excess drinking that can be seen as a sin. When you drink to a point where you are drunk, you are no longer thinking like "'you". Of course you are the same person, inside and out, but your mind is impaired to a point where your decisions and thoughts are not "normal"....

Answer 5

First off, the wine was unfermented. Like juice. And yes, getting drunk is a sin. Having a drink - not a sin. God bless you.

Answer 6

No, it's not a sin to drink. Even in the Christian context, it isn't a sin. According to Christianity, idolatry is a sin, and being drunk would be idolatry. None of this matters, however, since the idea of "sin" is an imaginary concept. Sin is only real if God is real, and all religions are equally uncontaminated by evidence, unless of course you consider ancient books written by primitive men to be evidence.

For a belief function logically (indeed, for them to be beliefs at all) one must also believe that they faithfully represent states of the world. We know, for instance, that the earth is round and not flat because we have evidence to support that assertion. Although there is room for intelligent dissent on certain issues, people who believe that the earth is flat are not dissenting geographers. Additionally, people who deny that the holocaust ever occurred are not dissenting historians.

Unfortunately, religious beliefs have a "protected status" in our society. We cannot question people unfounded religious beliefs, but we can question their unfounded beliefs about physics and math. Think about it. The evidence of God is about as abundant as the evidence for Zeus, Apollo, and Ra. One might as well believe in an invisible spaghetti monster. That's basically what our notion of God is; an invisible man in the sky who knows our every actions, loves us, and will condemn us to eternal suffering for failing to believe in him.

It is worth remembering that if God created the earth and all things in it, he also created smallpox, AIDS, and the plague. Any human who intentionally unleashed such horrors on the earth would be ground into dust. The supposed deity who stalked the Middle East millennia ago—and who seems to have abandoned them to bloodshed in his name ever since—is no one to consult on questions of ethics (i.e. is drinking wrong?).

In the face of God's obvious inadequacies, the pious have generally held that one cannot judge the creator of the universe by earthly norms. This argument loses momentum when we notice that the "Creator" is consistently ruled by human emotions—jealousy, wrath, suspicion, and a lust to dominate. If these are the characteristics of God, then the worst among us are created in his image more than we ever could have hoped.

I believe that Christopher Hitchins put it best when he said, "What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence."

Answer 7

I feel that a lot of sins are anything that can take over your mind. Having a couple beers a time or two a week shouldn't take hold of your mind, but when alcohol overcomes you and comes between you and other things, especially God, it is very dangerous.

Answer 8

i believe ur body is a temple which the holy spirit dwells which is clean i think alchol smokin drugs is a unclean substance it would never been my place to tell a fellow br or sis in Christ i have enough faith in GOD and the HolySpirit will lay on ur heart whats right and what is wrong

Answer 9

It's not a sin to drink but it is a sin to become drunk.

Answer 10

Here's my thinking...it was the Pharisees who called Jesus nasty names for drinking. Which side of that argument do you want to be on?

Answer 11

Cheers!