{"id":85,"date":"2008-04-03T16:09:20","date_gmt":"2008-04-03T16:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/2008\/04\/03\/on-wine\/"},"modified":"2008-04-03T20:16:32","modified_gmt":"2008-04-03T20:16:32","slug":"on-wine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/2008\/04\/03\/on-wine\/","title":{"rendered":"On Wine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Referenced from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajjacobs.com\/books\/yolb.asp\">The Year of Living Biblically<\/a> by A.J. Jacobs. Reviewed by BWIII <a href=\"http:\/\/benwitherington.blogspot.com\/2008\/04\/year-of-living-biblically-ode-to.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Daniel Whitfield has made an astoundingly exhaustive study of every alcohol reference in Scripture&#8211; all 247 of them. I quote here his findings:<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-style: italic\"><span style=\"font-style: italic\"><\/span><\/span>            On the negative side:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>there are 17 warnings against abusing alcohol,<\/li>\n<li>19 examples of people abusing alcohol,<\/li>\n<li>3 references to selecting leaders,<\/li>\n<li>and one verse advocating abstinence if drinking will cause a brother to stumble.<\/li>\n<li>Total negative references 40, or 16%.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On the positive side:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>there are 59 references to the commonly accepted practice of drinking wine (and strong drink) with meals,<\/li>\n<li>27 references to the abundance of wine as an example of God&#8217;s blessing,<\/li>\n<li>20 references to the loss of wine and strong drink as an example of God&#8217;s curse,<\/li>\n<li>25 references to the use of wine in offerings and sacrifices,<\/li>\n<li>9 references to wine being used as a gift, and<\/li>\n<li>5 metaphorical references to wine as a basis for a favorable comparison.<\/li>\n<li>Total positive references: 145, or 59%.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Neutral references make up the other 25%. If I could add only one observation to Whitfield&#8217;s study: There is also one reference to medicinal alcohol: &#8216;No longer drink only water, but use a little wine for the sake of yopur stomach and your frequent ailments (1 Timothy 5.23).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My long and deeply thought-out conclusions: Wine is yummy! Drink it with meals and by itself! Enjoy it, just not too much. It makes for a nice gift too. Apparently God has cursed the baptists. So sad.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"\/coffee_images\/wine-sunset.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/corradogiulietti\/225950321\/\">Photo credit<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Referenced from The Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs. Reviewed by BWIII here. Daniel Whitfield has made an astoundingly exhaustive study of every alcohol reference in Scripture&#8211; all 247 of them. I quote here his findings: On the negative side: there are 17 warnings against abusing alcohol, 19 examples of people abusing alcohol, 3 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/2008\/04\/03\/on-wine\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;On Wine&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cooking-and-food"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}