Does Bible allows drinking of wine or not?

Answer 1

In the Bible especially in the Old Testament, we find that drinking wine is prohibited. We see this prohibition at least in five places in the Old Testament.
For example we read:
And the LORD spake unto Aaron, saying,

"Do not drink wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations": (Leviticus 10:9)

Notice that “God” Says that it shall be a statute forever throughout your generation. Which means also for the days of Jesus and even it is a statute in nowadays for us.
In another verse we read:

"Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise". (Proverbs 20:1)

No comments! Very clear verse concerning what wine really is, and what it cause to human being.
In the same book we read:

"For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence. (Proverbs 4: 17)

Here we have another description of wine, which is violent.
In Isaiah we read:
But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment. (Isaiah 28:7)

Here we have a detailed description of what damages and errors can occur through wine. We are told by “God” that the Priests and the Prophets erred, in other words wine brings “the incorrect” and the “error”, for example bible testify some “errors” from some prophets did through the wine:
The error of Prophet Noah:

-- And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:
-- And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.
-- And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.
-- And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness. ( Genesis 9 :20-25)

The error of Prophet Lot:
-- And the firstborn said unto the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth:
-- Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
-- And they made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.
-- And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
-- And they made their father drink wine that night also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.
-- Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father.
-- And the firstborn bare a son, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites unto this day.
-- And the younger, she also bare a son, and called his name Benammi: the same is the father of the children of Ammon unto this day. (Genesis 19: 31-38)

In The book of Joel we read:
Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth. (Joel 1:5)

Another clear prohibition of wine by “God” calling the one who drinks wine “drunkard” and “for it is cut off from your mouth” which means that wine is forbidden.
Interesting is also the comparison that “God” use in order to describe what wine is equal with:
Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart. ( Hosea 4:11)

In other words wine has the same results with prostitution! And they are equal.

In the Gospel of Luke, we read about the John the Baptist:
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. (Luke 1:15)
John the Baptist is described as an abstainer from wine and for that reason is great in the sight of the Lord.
As we noticed above from the biblical passages, it is quite clear that wine cause errors, and that “God” prohibited, condemn and many times curse it. Also it is prohibited “for ever throughout the generations” as mention in Leviticus 10:9.


But the real problem arise when “God” (Jesus according to Christians) came down and became human (only according to Christians) and BLESSED wine! As we read in the Gospel of John:
1. And the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee; and the mother of Jesus was there:
2. And both Jesus was called, and his disciples, to the marriage.
3. And when they wanted wine, the mother of Jesus saith unto him, They have no wine.
4. Jesus saith unto her, Woman, what have I to do with thee? mine hour is not yet come.
5. His mother saith unto the servants, Whatsoever he saith unto you, do it .
6. And there were set there six waterpots of stone, after the manner of the purifying of the Jews, containing two or three firkins apiece.
7. Jesus saith unto them, Fill the waterpots with water. And they filled them up to the brim.
8. And he saith unto them, Draw out now, and bear unto the governor of the feast. And they bare it .
9. When the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine, and knew not whence it was: (but the servants which drew the water knew;) the governor of the feast called the bridegroom,
10. And saith unto him, Every man at the beginning doth set forth good wine; and when men have well drunk, then that which is worse: but thou hast kept the good wine until now.( John 2: 1-10)
This is a famous miracle of Jesus, he changed the water into wine in order people to drink abundantly.
This is a clear contradiction. In one place we have “God” (Jesus according to Christians) who prohibited, cursed, and condemn wine in several places:
1) Leviticus 10:9
2) Proverbs 20:1 and 4:17
3) Isaiah 28:7
4) Joel 1:5
5) Hosea 4:11
6) Luke 1:15
And in other place the same God (Jesus according to Christians) bless the wine and changes the water into wine for people to drink abundantly:
1) John 2:1-10
The most important think to notice is that the same God after he prohibited in Leviticus 10:9 FOR EVER AND EVER, then he change his mind and bless it????
Another clear contradiction about the prohibition or if it is allowed the wine, we read the verse
And the vine said unto them, Should I leave my wine, which cheereth God and man, and go to be promoted over the trees? (Judge 9:13)

Here “God” described that Cheereth from wine. A total chaotic confusion. What is really going on with wine? Is it good or bad? Does God prohibited or allowed it? Is it cursed by God ? or Make God Chereeth?

If anyone can answer to this confusion that promotes Bible, which is obvious not the word of God, please contact me.

Answer 2

Yes, pretty clear. Jesus' first publicly documented miracle was of turning water into wine.

We are not to be drunk with wine, though, as 2 of Aaron's sons were struck dead.

Is it possible God gave Mohammed a prohibition to apply to a certain people, such as the Jewish "Nazirite" vow which forbade Nazirites from any "fruit of the vine"? Possibly. I have not read the entire Quran.

Answer 3

Good question... I'm aware of several times the Bible references Wine... I mean come on - Jesus didn't turn Water into... Water right? but there are churches condemning it... Same thing with Dancing too... I look forward to seeing more insight into this.

Answer 4

A friend of mine told me that before he became a Christian, he would take all the Scriptures about drinking totally out of their contextual setting, to justify drinking and getting drunk. After he became a Christian, he put away such foolishness.

You're going to get a LOT of answers telling you that the Bible allows you to drink and get drunk.

However, the Scripture says "Be not drunk with wine wherein is excess, but rather be filled with the Holy Spirit from God."

One additional comment to those who say that Jesus turned water into wine, making it ok: When you can turn water into wine, you can drink as much as you want. Until then ...

Answer 5

Yes it does!

Zacarias 9:17 (KJV-1611) For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! Corn (destilled, of course!) shall make the young men cheerful, and new wine the maids.

Proverbs 31:6-7 (NIV) Give beer to those who are perishing, wine to those who are in anguish; let them drink and forget their poverty and remember their misery no more!

Answer 6

Yes. It just frowns on drunkenness. In fact, in the Mosaic Law, when the feasts were handed down, it says to bring strong drink to the feast of Tabernacles. Sometimes it is actually encouraged. But there is a consistent thread against becoming a drunk.

Answer 7

And be no longer drunken with wine 'wherein' is extra, yet be crammed with the spirit. i do no longer see those verses as something better than warning us to no longer abuse alcohol and why. yet once you suspect ingesting is a sin, it relatively is a sin for 'you.' like the eating of beef. Or meats presented as sacrifice to idols. Does the bible condemn drug abuse? Does it condemn getting extreme off meth or cocaine? yet I undertaking to assert, in case you get ill, your regularly occurring practitioner might prescribe you a drug or a narcotic. particularly in case you have had surgical technique, or services to migraines. Even a chilly medicine might properly be abused. I do have confidence alcohol abuse is erroneous and that i do have confidence drug abuse is erroneous. i think of that's what God is warning us approximately and not something greater. yet, like I mentioned, in case you suspect it relatively is a sin, then, for you, it relatively is.

Answer 8

my bible does, and if you forgo wine, you have to atone for the sin of forgoing something that god made for you.


added:

check numbers 6:2-15

Answer 9

Yes

Answer 10

yes it only warns agianst drunkeness.
Galatians 5:19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, and they are fornication, uncleanness, loose conduct, 20 idolatry, practice of spiritism, enmities, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, contentions, divisions, sects, 21 envies, drunken bouts, revelries, and things like these. As to these things I am forewarning YOU, the same way as I did forewarn YOU, that those who practice such things will not inherit God’s kingdom.

Answer 11

Yes, it is allowed, but a loving Christian would abstain at a social event if it should stumble his brother. (Some people cannot drink because they lose control.)