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John UK wrote:
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2. "The law" is not found in Proverbs. If strong drink is so anathema to God, where in his "law" does he condemn it?
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So what the Proverbs don't apply to you?

Which one of the following Proverbs would you be inclined not to follow because they are not law?

Proverbs 3:1 My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments: ... 3 Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart: ... 5 Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. 6 In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. 7 Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil. ... 9 Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase: 10 So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine.

The Proverbs are replete with commands/instructions/law. I encourage that we read them, believe them and obey them.


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John UK wrote:
Thank you Frank, it seems clear to me also.
Besides, if sin is the "transgression of the law", then among the thousands of Jewish laws you would expect to find a prohibition law concerning strong drink.
I don't have PM's booklet about the subject.
There is a strong drink which the daughter's of Belial drink which the Godly Hannah would not drink.

1 Samuel 1:15 - And Hannah answered and said, No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit: I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but have poured out my soul before the LORD. 16 Count not thine handmaid for a daughter of Belial: for out of the abundance of my complaint and grief have I spoken hitherto.

Returning to wine. Take a look at Proverbs 23:29-35. Look at how it rightly describes the plight of a drunkard and the symptoms of drunkenness. Now what is the command for how you are to deal with the drink that causes those things? "Look not thou upon the wine..." If we are not to look at it then surely we are not to drink it. If it is not alcoholic wine being described then what is it?


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John Yurich USA wrote:
So you did not even attend your parents funerals if they are deceased? My brother is a Born Again Non Denominational Christian and yet when our father passed away and his funeral was held in the Catholic Church my brother and his family attended. And by the way my father was Born Again because he had embraced Jesus Christ as his Personal Lord and Savior in a fox hole in New Guinea during World War II.
America's stand is a right and noble one. I went to a Catholic funeral/mass once. One of the spookiest things I had ever witnessed and I likewise intend to never do so again.

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John UK wrote:
How about alcoholic white wine?
I am now reminded me of another verse.

Proverbs 20:1 - Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.


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John UK wrote:
Hi Rufus, I didn't grasp your first point, but no matter.
On the second point, you seem to be applying logic or scientific arguments rather than scripture only. I would rather just take the text and accept it.
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Alright, let's use scripture only.

Proverbs 23:31 - Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright.

The wine I do not look at is alcoholic wine. What is the wine you do not look at?


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John UK wrote:
Thank you Rufus, and Frank and Mike.
As I read through scriptures, I find things like this:
Ephesians 5:18 KJV
18 And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;
Now as far as I am concerned, this wine was obviously strong enough to get drunk on, and Paul exhorts not to drink too much of it....
He is saying do not drink alcoholic wine in this verse. He's not saying not to drink to excess he's saying wherein is excess. Having said that, there are warnings not to drink too much non-alcoholic wine as if one over consumes it can ferment in the body and cause drunkenness.

On the wedding, the moment one places alcohol to their lips their body is affected. This is something secular doctors will admit. Whether one drinks one drop or one gallon they are merely in different degrees of drunkenness. So are you advocating ...the guests had well drunk less potent alcohol and Jesus Christ brought them more potent alcohol? And do you still think this to be right behaviour our Lord? Every drunkard starts out with one drink, do you reckon Jesus Christ would be tempting folks with that second, third, fourth drink?


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Frank wrote:
Now there is nothing in scripture that says Jesus didn't make real wine and if He gave it those who were already buzzed, then it wasn't a sin. ...
He made real wine without a doubt. whether it is alcoholic wine or non-alcoholic wine it's still real. One will come with real curses, and one will come with real blessings.

If he gave alcohol to people who had already well drunk alcohol then he would be an accessory to sin, which would be sin.

Habakkuk 2:15 - Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness!

If we weren't destroyed for a lack of knowledge we would give non-alcoholic wine to relieve pain...

http://www.cancertutor.com/Cancer/GrapeCure.html

http://www.drgranny.com/2010/05/24/top-15-benefits-of-grape-juice/

http://www.juicing-for-health.com/grapes-nutrition.html


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John UK wrote:
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Reasoned argument is good so argue away my brother.

Isaiah 41:21 - Produce your cause, saith the LORD; bring forth your strong reasons, saith the King of Jacob.

Wine that is nonalcoholic grape juice has similar variants in quality as wine that is alcoholic grape juice. Surely aging is a factor but so too is the content of the juice. The best organic grape juice I can find in my local health food store is cut with water. According to Head & Shoulders , you never get a second chance to make a first impression. So at the beginning you bring forth the good wine and then after men have well drunk, had their pallete dulled from drink, eats and the distractions of the event, you bring out the wine that is cheaper, cut with water etc. and they would be likely not to notice the quality has diminished.

Now the wine is representative of the blood of Jesus Christ. Do we mix the blood with the water? Do we mix the blood with the curse of alcohol in it or is it the pure juice found in the cluster?

Isaiah 65:8 - ... As the new wine is found in the cluster, ...

If it was alcohol what say you to Jesus giving alcohol to people who had already well drunk alcohol? Did Jesus give buzzed/drunk people more booze?


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"The brief, which will be released later this evening, has signatures from more than 100 Republican and conservative activists."

If they are "conservative" what is it exactly they are trying to conserve?


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Christopher000 wrote:
By the way, I meant to ask yesterday a question concerning wine. It seems to me that a glass of wine is ok, no? ...
I have heard people say that the water changed into wine was unfermented wine. What is the proof for this?
There are two kinds of wine in the Bible which require rightly dividing. One you are not to look at and is the poison of asps and one that is good for your health and is representative of the blood of Jesus Christ. The one that is a poisonous curse is the alcoholic wine, the one that is a blessing, is the pure juice from the cluster.

Jesus did not turn water into alcohol as he was without sin and surely it would have been sinful to give alcohol to a group of folks that had already well-drunken (even if one believed in the "moderate" drinking of alcohol).

Deuteronomy 32:33 - Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.


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Mike wrote:
"a lawyer for the U.S. Justice Department told a federal judge that the Obama administration believed it could force the judge’s own wife—a physician—to act against her religious faith in the conduct of her medical practice."
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What is not stated out-loud but is quite clearly implied is..."we can force the judge's wife to act against her faith because we are your god now."

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When all things are revealed I suspect we will be surprised at what a terrible plague the corporation was.

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Mr. Lincoln,

Why do you continue to call Tim Tebow a pentecostal?

2/27/13

Jim Lincoln wrote:
I would wonder why a Baptist church would ask a Pentecostal to speak?...
12/8/11
Jim Lincoln wrote:
I finally did find out that he is a Baptist, I think, even if he does act like a Pentecostal. He leaves a lot of question in peoples minds just what he is....

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Frank wrote:
Very interesting discussion. But I am going to change it away from the context of the article and the discussion. The current discussion is interesting and probably even important, but is going nowwhere.
If you are not a bond-servant or slave of our Lord, then you aren't serving Him according to scripture.
If you are not serving Him as a slave, according to scripture, then you are not following Him.
If you are not following Him, then you are not one of His disciples.
If you are not His disciple, then you are not one of His sheep.
If you are not one of His sheep, then He is not your Shepherd.
If He is not your Shepherd, then ....
Now, all of us probably have differences of opinion regarding the history of slavery in cultures, but all of us probably agree with being bond-servants or slaves of our Lord?
Well said Frank. And if we are all bond-servants/slaves of our Lord, then that would make all these slaves our people and all the ethnic division ought to go by the way side.

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SteveR wrote:
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A Black woman entered this site in search of Spiritual nourishment, and was blindsided by self described Christians who think she & her people should share responsibility for the pre Civil war slave trade....
"Her people"? Why is "her people" based on pigment of skin / ancestory? Is this how we should all assess our skin color? Looking at one another and judging according to appearance who are "our people" and who are not "our people". I am not a great judge of these things but it sort of sounds racist to me.

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Mr b wrote:
I don't know if 70% of gays have HIV , but i do know homosexuality is not Gods way, and as for Islam Mormonism and Judaism , well if they ain't preaching Jesus as the way the truth and the life then they are filling the air with empty words. So the guy is partially right. I don't know if tebow did the right thing. He should just stand up for Jesus regardless of who or what he might lose.
Concur on all accounts.

I am uncertain what makes this pastor "controversial". I guess it is unusual for preachers to preach against sodomy and false religions?

As for Mr. Tebow not attending I would count that as a blessing. I would think he would need to repent of his lasciviousness and such like before he stood behind a pulpit.


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SteveR wrote:
Rufus Rufus Rufus(tsk tsk) very naughty
I cant believe you just indirectly referenced the validation for Slavery of Africans.
Just to catch everyone up to speed, slave owners abused their black slaves because in their eyes they were cursed from Gen 9
Genesis 9:25 And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.
Yes...and that was stupid. Historically every son of Noah has been enslaved to some degree. Now it is 2013, and now we're all slaves, it's evil and I wish it weren't so but it is what it is.

Regardless, my stepping into this is not to get into a "race" debate but to defend Christian charity. The ladies ugly comments were ugly. Telling someone who apologizes that he doesn't mean it and thus calling him a liar is also ugly. Calling folks that are "with" him racist is likewise ugly. Bringing this topic up in a "Feds run extortion scam on doctors" rings of someone having an agenda and a component of that appears to be to cause division and strife.

Today Dr. Natale is a Federal slave because the Feds are involved in something they have zero lawful authority to be involved in. If we all care about freeing slaves. What might we do for Dr. Natale?


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stand for God wrote:
Chris000 you talk very wicked and ignorant. Stop writing about apologizing because you do mot mean it at all. You are extremely racist and hateful. I have read your ignorant comments over the month. And all the hateful racist people whoare with you-- God sees your wickedness. I feel sorry for you all. I am glad I got a chance to address you all esp Chris. You need help sir. I pray for you.
You are out of line, ma'am. Christopher has demonstrated nothing but a meek, kind, Christian spirit in every post I've seen him engage in and has been of great encouragement to me and I expect others. Your over the top sensitivity does not help your cause and I implore you to choose charity towards your Christian brother above the cause of your "race". Christians are a part of a holy nation under a king who is no respecter of persons. Smiting one another over the issue of which of Noah's sons we came from falls short of exhibiting cerebral qualities.

1 Peter 2:9 - But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:


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TB wrote:
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That is a blessed scripture and a blessed epistle of which I disagree not at all.

There is a justification by works that James is referring to.

James 2:21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar?

...and there is a justification by faith alone referred to elsewhere.

Romans 4:2 - For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God.

The justification that James is referring to is not for eternal salvation but it is the salvation that is available to the brethren he is addressing his letter to. Mashing these justifications together as though they are one does not work, rightly dividing them does.

The following was written to believers, who were to pray, give alms etc. not for eternal salvation...

Matthew 6:33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

The kingdom of God being referred to is a temporal kingdom...

Rev 20:4 ...and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.

Eternity believers have by faith. It is the temporal Kingdom that is at stake for believers by faith + works.


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TB wrote:
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Your controversy is with the Bible: "Without holiness no one will see the Lord."

I have no controversy with the Bible. I am resting on the finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ for my eternal salvation. I have seen but a portion of my sin and have confidence that by my deeds I will not have eternal life but by His deeds I have received the unmerited favor of the perfect spotless lamb of God. Should I stumble (which I have), should I fall short of perfection (which I do) I will not need to get eternally saved again.

Further, I do not point you to my works to demonstrate that I am saved, I point you to my confession of belief in the shed blood of Jesus Christ and I point you to His work. This is the only thing sinful man can properly point to. He can not say look at me, I do not do [insert sin here] therefore I am saved or look at those sinners who do [insert sin here], they are not saved, for eternal salvation is not of works but by the grace of God (lest any man should boast).

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