Drinking Alcohol
Some may ask is it alright me being a Christian to drink alcohol? Well seeing that we that are saved has that true peace, love, and joy within us, that only comes from God, not what the world can give, and we have that true comfort that only comes from God's Holy Spirit. I think a better question would be why would a Christian want to drink alcohol, seeing that we are filled with God's love, peace, joy, and comfort. So why would we seek these things from an alcohol bottle that can never give us these things that only comes from God.
My question is why would we want to take part in something that has destroyed millions of lives already, and is destroying lives daily. Do you not know that alcohol is one of the leading causes of broken up marriages, domestic abuse, driving fatalities and injuries, and not to mention underage drinking which kills more youth than all other illicit drugs combined. And they usually start drinking because they see their dad, mom, or other family members doing the same.
Here is just a few Alcohol Statistics
More than one-half of American adults have a close family member who has or has had alcohol addiction.
Alcoholism and alcohol abuse are the third leading cause of the preventable deaths in the United States.
More than 100,000 U.S. deaths are caused by excessive alcohol consumption each year. Direct and indirect causes of death include drunk driving, cirrhosis of the liver, falls, cancer, and stroke.
Approximately 14 million people in the United States are addicted to alcohol or abuse alcohol.
Traffic crashes are the greatest single cause of death for persons aged 6-33.
About 45% of these fatalities are in alcohol-related crashes
Between 48% and 64% of the people who die in fires have blood alcohol levels indicating intoxication.
Underage drinking costs the United States more than $58 billion every year - enough to buy every public school student a state-of-the-art computer.
Youth who drink alcohol are 50 times more likely to use cocaine than those who never drink alcohol.
Alcohol kills 6½ times more youth than all other illicit drugs combined.
(1) The Bible does teach total abstinence from alcohol. Both the main Hebrew word for wine and the Greek word for wine can mean either fermented grape juice or intoxicating wine. The English word wine originally had two meanings also - Non-fermented juice or alcoholic drink.
(2) In the Bible, verses to show God approves of wine are speaking about non-fermented juice. Verses that expose the evils of wine are speaking about intoxicating wine.
(3) The Bible says alcoholic drink is evil. It is not just the amount one drinks that makes drinking a sin. God condemns the drink itself. (Prov 20:1) Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
(4) God does not lead us into evil; He delivers us from it. He does not teach us to practice evil in moderation. Jesus did not make, use, approve, commend, or tell us to use intoxicating wine.
(5) God made man to have fellowship with Him. Alcohol goes directly to the brain, the communication center of the body. It interferes with God's purpose for mankind.
Proverbs 23:29-30 - Drinking causes woe, sorrow, fighting, babbling, wounds without cause and red eyes.
Proverbs 23:31 - God instructs not to look at intoxicating drinks.
Proverbs 23:32 - Alcoholic drinks bite like a serpent, sting like an adder.
Proverbs 23:33 - Alcohol causes the drinker to have strange and adulterous thoughts.
Proverbs 23:29-33 Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes? They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine. 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.
Galatians 4:9 But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?
Galatians 5:1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
Romans 12:2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.