Firstly: nobody is disputing that alcoholic wines existed (but non-fortified). Yet here is some of the evidence why anybody who wished to avoid all alcoholic wine was able to avoid this type in Biblical times. …the Roman writer Cato, in his treatise On Agriculture, gave this prescription: ‘If you wish to keep new wine sweet …
Some ancient wines not even mildly intoxicating. Others were intoxicating. Read More »
See also: Bible says be sober again and again. WHEREAS, Years of research confirm biblical warnings that alcohol use leads to physical, mental, and emotional damage (e.g., Proverbs 23:29-35); and WHEREAS, Alcohol use has led to countless injuries and deaths on our nation’s highways; and WHEREAS, The breakup of families and homes can be directly …
No Drinking: Southern Baptist Convention – Resolution on Alcohol (2006) Read More »
Giving at one view Version, Criticism, and Exposition, in regard to all passages of Holy Writ bearing on ‘wine’ and ‘strong drink,’ or illustrating the principles of the temperance reformation. By Dr. Frederic Richard Lees, F.S.A. and Rev. Dawson Burns, M.A., 1870, National Temperance Society and Publication House, New York. View Contents on books.google.com (1868 …
The Temperance Bible-Commentary – Dr. F.R. Lees & Rev. D. Burns Read More »
The head of WA’s [Western Australia’s] Aboriginal Health Council is calling for alcohol to be made illegal in indigenous communities across the State as the Government considers implementing liquor bans in at least three more townships. Henry Councillor said the early success of a complete alcohol ban imposed on the remote east Kimberley outpost of …
Some of the infamous violent people who give religious ‘fundamentalist’ people a bad name are drinkers themselves – not teetotallers! Yet certain media reporters may have forgotten this. If a terrorist be Islamic and a non-drinker, then secular media may be tempted to sneer at teetotallers generally or Christian ‘fundamentalists.’ Many Christians frown on drinking …
JOHN N. HURTY, M.D. ‘Twas a dangerous cliff, as they freely confessed, Though to walk near its crest was so pleasant. But over its terrible edge there had slipped A duke and full many a peasant. So the people said something would have to be done, But their projects did not at all tally, Some …
Throughout his late teens, Welch was active in the Underground Railroad that transported escaped slaves from the south into Canada. In fact, he was not the only Wesleyan Methodist connected to the “Underground Railroad.” At age 17, Thomas Welch joined the Wesleyan Methodist Connexion, founded the same year (1843). From its beginning, the Wesleyan Methodist …
Thomas Welch: Wesleyan Methodist, Anti-Alcohol, Anti-Slavery Read More »
Is oinos alcoholic always in the Greek meaning? Jesus turns water into wine, but which type of wine? NOT ALL oinos wine is alcoholic. (See also: broad meaning of wine (oinos) – documented.) ‘The burden of proof here rests with the advocate of alcoholic wine…’ —Frederick Richard Lees & Dawson Burns, The Temperance Bible-Commentary When …
See also: Bible says be sober again and again. See also: History of Wesleyan Church Beliefs on drinking (1843-2016). ‘…We believe that the sale and trafficking of tobacco, alcohol and other nonmedicinal drugs is a social evil which is draining and corrupting to society, and thus we believe that the best position is to practice …
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