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$\"Tuscanwine.jpg\"$ <\/span>It seems every year someone brings up the Bible and alcohol (the drinking kind). My first response, kept to myself but now made public, is this \u201cYo, have you ever tasted Brunello or a South African wine or a good pint of Boddington\u2019s?\u201d But that doesn\u2019t seem to be the approach needed here.<\/p>\n

What I find every year in this conversation is a serious, but repeated mistake. The tack is this: If I take a stand more \u201cbiblical than the Bible,\u201d then I can\u2019t be wrong. That is, if I choose not to drink at all, I will keep myself from sin and all appearance of evil and will be safe. This is what I call the sin of \u201czealotry\u201d \u2014 the belief that if we are more extreme than the Bible, then we can\u2019t be wrong. Wrong.<\/p>\n

If God is God, and if God speaks to us in the Bible, then God spoke words that show that wine drinking is fine. One may choose not to drink, but that view is more extreme than what the Bible says. Drinking too much is contrary to the Bible, but not drinking at all is not what the Bible teaches (except for ascetic strands at time). <\/p>\n

But, let\u2019s not fall for the idea that being more biblical than the Bible is safe ground. Extremism is not righteousness; extremism is zealotry. Trust that what God says is what God wants. <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It seems every year someone brings up the Bible and alcohol (the drinking kind). My first response, kept to myself but now made public, is this \u201cYo, have you ever tasted Brunello or a South African wine or a good pint of Boddington\u2019s?\u201d But that doesn\u2019t seem to be the approach needed here. What I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":197,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nThe Bible and Alcohol<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"It seems every year someone brings up the Bible and alcohol (the drinking kind). 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