{"id":934,"date":"2004-01-28T10:17:36","date_gmt":"2004-01-28T18:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2004\/01\/28\/booze-the-bible-and-bad-theology\/"},"modified":"2004-01-28T10:17:36","modified_gmt":"2004-01-28T18:17:36","slug":"booze-the-bible-and-bad-theology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2004\/01\/28\/booze-the-bible-and-bad-theology","title":{"rendered":"Booze, the Bible, and Bad Theology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I promised in last night\u2019s message <b><i>Booze, The Bible, &amp; Bad Theology<\/i><\/b>, here are some resources outlining what the Bible says about fermented beverages.<\/p>\n<p>* First, a list of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drbacchus.com\/bible\/\">every passage in the Bible that discusses alcohol<\/a>.<br>\n* Daniel Whitfield has a good essay <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drbacchus.com\/bible\/\">Alcohol and the Bible<\/a>\u2013well worth reading.<br>\n* Daniel Wallace wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bible.org\/docs\/soapbox\/alcohol.htm\">The Bible and Alcohol<\/a>, an extremely helpful article from a very solid scholar.<br>\n* The Christian Counterculture project has an insightful collection of articles in their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christiancounterculture.com\/cc_30812.html\">What Would Jesus Drink?<\/a> collection.<\/p>\n<p>There is diversity within the Christian camp on this issue, and a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=bible+alcohol\">simple google search<\/a> will find arguments from all corners. The ones I listed above are the ones I find most credible.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: I just ran across a fascinating article at Christianity Today that gives a solid historical overview \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2000\/114\/52.0.html\">Amassed Media: The Drink Debate<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I promised in last night\u2019s message Booze, The Bible, &amp; Bad Theology, here are some resources outlining what the Bible says about fermented beverages. * First, a list of every passage in the Bible that discusses alcohol. * Daniel Whitfield has a good essay Alcohol and the Bible\u2013well worth reading. * Daniel Wallace wrote \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2004\/01\/28\/booze-the-bible-and-bad-theology\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cBooze, the Bible, and Bad Theology\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spiritual-growth"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-f4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}