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A researcher penned down these words on alcohol… “In the American society alcohol has become its number-one public enemy, costing over $117 billion a year, disabling over 1, 000 persons, and claiming at least 100, 000 lives, 25 times as many as all illegal drugs combined. www. clearbibleanswers. org
The real human cost of alcohol transcends these statistical figures of dollars, disabilities and death. No one can count the real cost of alcohol to our society in terms of retarded children, violence in the home, child and spouse abuse, divorce, rape, robberies, murders, sickness and death. ” Answer from clearbibleanswers. org
The Hindu Online edition of India's National Newspaper Saturday, May 03, 2008 “India is one of the largest producers of alcohol in the world and there has been a steady increase in its production over the last 15 years, according to new statistics. There has been a steady increase in production in the country. Production doubled from 887. 2 million litres in 1992 -93 to 1, 654 million litres in 1999 -2000. It was expected to treble to 2, 300 million litres by 2007 -08. ” Answer from clearbibleanswers. org
Alcohol has also had a phenomenal impact on the crime world. A study by the British Medical Association showed that alcohol was present in 64% of all public offences and 40% of all violent assaults. Alcohol was also present in 60 -70% of homicides, 75% of stabbings, 70% of beatings, and 50% fights (IAS). Answer from clearbibleanswers. org
How can one look at that and say that alcohol is Safe and Social? ? Answer from clearbibleanswers. org
Many Christians quote the Bible to justify their drinking Answer from clearbibleanswers. org
They say Jesus turned water into wine and made people drunk at a wedding feast at Cana. Answer from clearbibleanswers. org
They say, wine is used to symbolize the blood of Jesus, and we are told to drink wine in remembrance of His shed blood during Communion Service Answer from clearbibleanswers. org
If God permits alcohol, then God is responsible for all the evil caused by alcohol in the world! Answer from clearbibleanswers. org
In Part 1 of our study we will look at Bible passages from Genesis to Revelation that condemns alcoholic drinks directly or indirectly, and paints a negative picture about it. Answer from clearbibleanswers. org
There are more Scriptures condemning the use of alcoholic beverages than will be found on the subjects of lying, adultery, swearing, cheating, hypocrisy, pride, or even blasphemy. Answer from clearbibleanswers. org
The result was immorality and family trouble. Gen 9: 21 “And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent. ” Answer from clearbibleanswers. org
that he did not know what he was doing. It lead to incest. Gen 19: 32 “Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father. ” The descendents of Lot—the Ammonites and the Moabites were enemies of the children of Israel. Answer from clearbibleanswers. org
By getting Uriah drunk, King David hoped to cover his sin. 2 Samuel 11: 13 “And when David had called him, he did eat and drink before him; and he made him drunk: and at even he went out to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord, but went not down to his house. ”
Amnon was drunk when he was killed. 2 Samuel 13: 28 “Now Absalom had commanded his ervants, saying, Mark ye now when Amnon's heart is merry with wine, and when I say unto you, Smite Amnon; then kill him, fear not: have not I commanded you? be courageous, and be valiant. ”
Daniel and his godly friends refused to drink wine, because it defiles a person! Daniel 1: 8 “But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king's meat, nor with the wine which he drank: therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself. ”
Eli the priest accused Hannah of being drunk. 1 Samuel 1: 14 “And Eli said unto her, How long wilt thou be drunken? put away thy wine from thee. ” If wine was permitted why the accusation?
An Evil Servant Drinks. Mt 24: 48 -51 “But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken;
The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of, And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. ” We need to be good servants who don’t drink!
A drunken son was stubborn and rebellious. Deut 21: 20 “And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard. ”
Intoxicating wine is compared to the poison of serpents, the cruel venom of vipers Deut 32: 33 “Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps. ”
Wine Deceives Proverbs 20: 1 “Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise. ” If Jesus gave fermented wine to people at the wedding of Cana, it means he was deceiving and mocking people!
Fools are in the company of winebibbers Proverbs 23: 19, 20 “Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way. Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh. ”
Drunkenness causes poverty Proverbs 23: 21 “For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags. ”
Drinking causes woe, sorrow, etc Proverbs 23: 29 “Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes? ” Proverbs 23: 30 “They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine. ”
Don’t even look at it Proverbs 23: 31— 33 “Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright. At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder. Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things. ” Answer from clearbibleanswers. org
Kings forbidden to drink Proverbs 31: 4, 5 “It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong drink: Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted. ” If Kings and Princes haven’t to drink, wine or strong drink, can the King of kings and the Prince of peace drink and give others to drink, as assumed in the wedding of Cana?
A land is blessed when its leaders do not drink Ecclesiastes 10: 17 “Blessed art thou, O land, when thy king is the son of nobles, and thy princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!”
Woe is to the ones who drink Isaiah 5: 11 “Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them!”
Woe to the cocktail drinkers Isaiah 5: 22 “Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink”. Answer from clearbibleanswers. org
Drunkards shall be trodden down Isaiah 28: 3 “The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet” Answer from clearbibleanswers. org
Wine cause error in judgment Isaiah 28: 7 “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. ” Answer from clearbibleanswers. org
A blasphemous king drinks wine and is destroyed Daniel 5: 1, 4 “Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before thousand. They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone. ”
Intoxicating wine destroys true love Hosea 4: 11 “Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart. ”
Wine leads people to scorn Hosea 7: 5 “In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners. ” Answer from clearbibleanswers. org
It’s a false prophet that encourages people to drink Micah 2: 11 “If a man walking in the spirit and falsehood do lie, saying, I will prophesy unto thee of wine and of strong drink; he shall even be the prophet of this people. ”
Wine leads to transgression Habakkuk 2: 5 “Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, he is a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all people”.
No making others drink Hab 2: 15 “Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness!” Wouldn’t Jesus get a “woe” if he made people drunk with alcoholic wine at the wedding of Cana? Answer from clearbibleanswers. org
The Lord Jesus warns against drinking Luke 21: 34 “And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares. ”
Drunkenness is dishonesty Romans 13: 13 “Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. ”
Drunkards will not go to heaven 1 Corinthians 6: 10 “Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. ”
Drunkenness belongs to the night; Christians belong to the day 1 Thessalonians 5: 7, 8 “For they that sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night. But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation. ”
Even in symbolism wine is associated with God’s enemies Revelation 14: 8 “And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication. ”
The Lord’s anger is pictured as mixed wine poured out and drunk by the wicked Psalm 75: 8 “For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture; and he poureth out of the same: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them. ” The wicked is compared to the wine.
Keep distance from drunkards says the Apostle Paul 1 Corinthians 5: 11 “But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat. ”
Traffic Signs Even the traffic lawmakers know the dangers of drinking. They place billboards everywhere….
The Divine Lawgiver too does not want us to drink in the pathway of life! It’s dangerous for both us and people around us! Proverbs 20: 1 “Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise. ” www. clearbibleanswers. org
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