Are Christians allowed to drink wine?

[Skye1300]

Are Christians allowed to drink alcohol-containing grape-juice = wine?

Some think that Christians are not allowed to drink wine.

And that when the Bible speaks of wine, the Bible speaks of non-alcoholic grape juice.

What do you think?

They drank real wine in the Bible. Jesus turned the water into real wine. Catholic communion uses real wine for the blood. Drinking wine is not a sin.

 

[Red Gold]

They drank real wine in the Bible. Jesus turned the water into real wine. Catholic communion uses real wine for the blood. Drinking wine is not a sin.

Yes - enjoying a good wine is like praying!

 

[Red Gold]

p.s. - we (here is the States) refer to Schorles as "Spritzers" (though our spritzers are typically freshly made, rather than bottled or canned, they are still the same thing, wine mixed with some kind of mineral/carbonated water).

Yes, I also know the word "Spritzer". I know it as the Austrian word for our Schorle.
It is unclear where the word "Schorle" comes from.
Some say that it is what Germans understood when they heard a Frenchman say: "Toujours l'amour!"

 

[Red Gold]

And now?

 

[Red Gold]

No wine?

Baháʼís are forbidden to drink alcohol or to take drugs, except by a doctor's order, because God has given human beings reason which is taken away by intoxicants that lead the mind astray.[19] The non-medicinal use of opium and other mind-altering drugs is particularly condemned in the Baháʼí scriptures.[19] Baháʼís are also asked to try to avoid working in jobs that involve the manufacturing or large-scale sale of alcohol and to avoid any involvement in the drug trade.[19] Smoking tobacco is not forbidden but is discouraged

Baháʼí laws - Wikipedia


Then the Bahai Faith is nothing for me.

 

[Red Gold]

A Bahai Law: "Smoking tobacco is not forbidden but is discouraged"

Smoking is always unhealty!
Wine is not.

Imho those Bahais made the wrong decision.

 

[Red Gold]

Jews drink wine
Christians drink wine

Muslims do not drink wine.
Bahais do not drink wine.

It is a pity that the Bahais side with the Muslims here, that persecute them.

 

[carrico]

Sometimes I dilute my wine with mineral water.
A mixture of wine and mineral water is called a "Schorle" in German.

I stick to a sangria, so I like to dilute my wine too, LOL! Actually, if I drink wine, I have instant ear ache and headache. I looked it up and perhaps I have an allergy to it

 

[Red Gold]

Now 19 say: Yes!
And nobody says: No.

 

[Neostarwcc]

Jesus drank wine so, yes. There's a difference between drinking wine for the sake of enjoying wine and drinking wine to the point of drunkenness. Getting drunk off wine is a sin but enjoying a glass of wine with dinner is not.

 

[Red Gold]

When some people hear the word "wine", their next thought is "drunkard!"
Not with me!

 

[Tuur]

So far 7 out of 7 say: yes

As a Christian, I am allowed to drink wine, but as a Christian I wouldn't do so. First, one side of my family has a problem with alcohol, as warned me by a grandfather who once had a drinking problem. Second, I am no longer physically able to imbibe alcohol. Third, I live in an area where tea-totaling among Christians is the norm. If I could drink wine, I wouldn't do so because it would be a stumbling block.

 

[dzheremi]

If it is good enough for our Lord's miracle at the wedding at Cana, then who are we to say otherwise?

 

[Rev. Adam McKay PhD]

Being a gluten in general is a sin.

When it comes to sin I try to be gluten-free.

 

[Red Gold]

When it comes to sin I try to be gluten-free.

Somebody here mixes up gluten with glutton ....

 

[Red Gold]

Wine does not contain gluten

 

[Neostarwcc]

God drinks wine so why not? The point is to not drink to the point of drunkenness. Drunkenness is a sin. Drinking wine is not and has health benefits.