John Hamel wrote:The fermentation of wine is an aging process that happens over an extended period of time. It is a process of decay, which is rooted in death. Satan is the author of death, not Jesus or His Father.
First, at the wedding feast of Cana Jesus created premier quality grape juice instantly, not over time - without decay, without death and without the help of Satan.
Second, as stated, death and decay do not come from God. Death and decay come only from Satan. To say that Jesus created fermented, decayed wine is to say He did so with the help of Satan, for Satan alone is the author of death and decay.
However;
Mark 11:12-23 CNT wrote:12 And in the morning upon His coming out from Bethania He hungered. 13 And seeing a fig tree from afar off having leaves He went, if then He should find something in it, and coming to it He found nothing except leaves – for it was not the season for figs. 14 And responding He said to it: “No longer forever should anyone eat fruit from you!” And the students heard Him.
15 And they come into Jerusalem. And upon entering into the temple He began to cast out the dealers and buyers in the temple, and He overturned the tables of the bankers and the seats of those selling doves, 16 and He did not allow that anyone should carry baggage through the temple. 17 And He instructed and said to them: “Is it not written that ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the Nations’? But you have made it a den of robbers!” 18 And the high priests and the scribes heard it and they sought how they could destroy Him, for they feared Him, for all the crowd was astonished by His teaching.
19 And when it became late, they went outside of the city. 20 And passing by in the morning they saw the fig tree had withered from the roots. 21 And Petros remembering says to Him: “Rabbi, look! The fig tree which You have cursed is withered!” 22 And responding Yahshua says to him: “Do you have faith in Yahweh? 23 Truly I say to you, that he who should say to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea’, and does not doubt in his heart but would believe that that which he speaks shall happen, it shall be for him.
Many judeo preachers especially in the big cities prey on alcoholics and drug addicts because they are easy targets. Their minds are so messed up that concepts like "grafted in niggers" make sense. I think this "wine is really juice" stuff is just the product of their desire to control their flock.
I used to drink about 12 beers a week up until the summer of 2014. I stopped completely except for one night my wife and I went to a restaurant and also at Hatefest 2015 where I fell in with some rapscallions
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It's a personal choice. If you can live without alcohol great. If you enjoy some now and then great. Drunkenness is a problem, not casual consumption, imo.