We as Christian teetotalers deny that any alcohol “a mocker” is something God created for man to drink. I cannot suppose Catherine and William Booth of the Salvation Army are supposedly guilty of teaching “doctrines of demons”! But Greg Price makes a nasty claim against our teaching: “to teach that it is sinful to use …
Christian teetotalers NEVER teach “doctrines of demons”! (1 Timothy 4:1) Read More »
Is yayin alcoholic always? יין Yayin did not first become “wine” only if it fermented later, after it was pressed. Both simple grape juice and intoxicating juice were called yayin in the original Hebrew of the Old Testament. (Both were called οινος oinos in the original Greek of the New Testament.) See also: Shekhar – meaning sweet drink or strong drink in …
יַיִן Grape juice already called YAYIN (wine) in the press! (Hebrew meaning of yayin) Read More »
See: 1 Timothy 5:23 why non-alcoholic wine for Timothy’s stomach Tertullian (c. 160-220 AD) strikingly compared the strong penalty of the Levitical priests to ministers in the Church. ‘For abstinence from wine withal has honourable badges of its own… So true is it, that such as shall have ministered in the Church, being not sober, …
Tertullian said Timothy not drinking would help his stomach (160-220 AD) Read More »
John of Lycopolis (c. 395 AD) ‘if there is any sharp wine I excommunicate it, but I drink the good.’ (‘The Lusiac History’, Ch. 35, John of Lycopolis)
Methodius of Olympus (311 AD) ‘…he who has devoted and offered himself to the Lord shall not take of the fruits of the plant of evil, because of its natural tendency to produce intoxication and distraction of mind. For we perceive from the Scriptures two kinds of vines which were separate from each other, and …
Methodius of Olympus (311 AD) Christian against tasting alcohol Read More »
Tertullian (c. 160-220 AD) Tertullian strikingly compared the strong penalty of the Levitical priests to ministers in the Church. ‘For abstinence from wine withal has honourable badges of its own… So true is it, that such as shall have ministered in the Church, being not sober, shall “die”’. (Tertullian, Fasts, Ch. 9, ‘From Fasts Absolute Tertullian …