Why Drinking Wine is Not a Sin

It is truly amazing how preachers can read Scripture but ignore its meaning or not see it. It must be a form of willful brainwashing, or willful delusion. I have heard it preached many times that Jesus did not turn the water into wine, but into grape juice, that wine was what they called grape juice. But let us examine with logic and reason what the Bible actually says on this subject.

First, let us examine the Scripture passage about Jesus' first miracle, where he turned the water into wine:

John 2:9 The person in charge tasted the water that had become wine. He didn't know where it had come from, although the servers who had poured the water knew. The person in charge called the groom
John 2:10 and said to him, "Everyone serves the best wine first. When people are drunk, the host serves cheap wine. But you have saved the best wine for now."

This was not grape juice, people cannot get drunk on grape juice. If drinking wine were a sin then Jesus just gave many gallons of wine to people for them to sin with; nonsense! Would Jesus give someone Cocaine today? NEVER!

Consider this fact, grape juice must be refrigerated or it will ruin, only by allowing it to ferment into wine will it last for a long period of time. Can you imagine growing many grapes and harvesting them only to drink the juice for a day or two and throw out the rest? Ridiculous! Since grape juice will ruin, it was always turned into wine.

Jesus even gave an illustration where he equated wine with the Holy Spirit!

And men do not put new wine into old wine-skins; or the skins will be burst and the wine will come out, and the skins are of no more use: but they put new wine into new wine-skins, and so the two will be safe. Mat 9:17

When grape juice ferments into wine it expands and gives off a gas that will tear open old leather bottles, but new leather will stretch. It is near blasphemy to call drinking wine a sin, because Jesus likens it to the Holy Spirit. He would have been a real dumb-nut to have done so if drinking wine were a sin. That would be like saying something really good for us that we should have is like Heroin or Cocaine; ridiculous!

Grape juice in the Bible is referred to as new wine, and after it has fermented it becomes old wine.

"No one who has been drinking old wine wants new wine. He says, 'The old wine is better!'" (Luke 5:39)

Wow! Jesus actually states that the alcohol type wine is better than grape juice, this PROVES that JESUS DRANK WINE! Yet fundamentalist Christians have the audacity to condemn people that drink wine.

Paul told Timothy to drink wine for his stomach (1Ti 5:23), not grape juice. In fact, grape jucie is acidic and drinking too much of it will actually cause stomach problems, like ulcers, worse. Just ask people that have stomach problems if they can drink grape juice, they will say NO! But they can drink wine. It is true that Paul said not be get drunk on wine,

Don't get drunk on wine, which leads to wild living. Instead, be filled with the Spirit. Eph 5:18

Why didn't he just say don't ever drink wine, but he did not, he said do not get drunk on it. Just as we are not supposed to over-eat, thereby becoming a glutton, so also we are not supposed to drink too much wine so as to get drunk, but this does not mean that you must never drink wine, that is nonsense.

There is much more evidence that drinking wine is NOT a sin, and that Jesus drank real wine, but many people will continue to believe what they want to believe. Christians have historically drank wine and other alcoholic beverages, it is only in recent centuries that SOME of them have rejected it because of the possibility of getting drunk.

Drinking a little wine each day has been proven to be healthy for your heart and new studies show that people who drink it have better cognative ability in their old age. God's drink should not be rejected as wrong, because it is good for us.