Gilberto Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
If you believe in the Bible, they weren't just mute on this particular
question. Important rituals in the old and new testament involve
drinking wine. If you do a search on "wine" in the Bible you actually
find a lot of quotes.Absolutely! But they are mute on PROHIBITING alcohol. Except for the verse telling people not to look upon the wine when it is red. Does that mean a Zinfandel or Liebraumilch is okay?There was no way to keep nutritive liquids without fermentation setting in. It's darned hard today to prevent fermentation, and totally impractical once the vacuum seal on a bottle is broken.There are good sources which claim mankind invented agriculture to procure steady sources of alcohol and mind-altering drugs rather than food. Egypt one of the two great inventor cultures brewed beer and made wine routinely. No hops in the beer of course, but they brewed it anyway.Viniculture raised grapes and there was no way to eat the whole crop at once. The only way to save it was juice which naturally fermented.In the time of Moses and of Jesus, alcohol was a fact of life. Even Muhammad in the Qur'an declares a certain quantity of water to be clean under all circumstances. That is scientifically baseless. Stagnant water will grow all kinds of cultures even when it is the quantity declared by Muhammad. In other words the technology of the dispensation demanded alcohol as a purifier of water.The Arabs had access to coffee and other hot drinks which caused the water to boil. Palestine and Egypt did not have such potables and the water was not boiled except in food preparation.Moses and Jesus could not declare a ban on alcohol. Society could not have handled it. Pestilence and malnutrition would have been the result.Regards,Scott
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