Is drinking alcohol a sin?
Friday, August 27th, 2010 at
10:38 am
Whenever I drink alcohol, I always feel guilty the next day. I don’t make a fool of myself or anything when Im drinking but guilt still overwhelms me…
Im curios if drinking alcohol is a sin cause in the bible many people drank wine. I recall a part in the bible where Noah was so drunk he fell asleep naked and later his sons saw him laying naked and covered him.
So what do ya think, is drinking a sin or what?
edit: curios=curious
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If and when you feel guilty, then it is a sin! (Just the alcohol itself in moderate, control is not until Convicted.)
No, but it’s pretty stupid to poison yourself.
Perhaps the lord is trying to help you learn the word of wisdom to keep your self healthy body spirit and mind. Drinking only lead to much pain and suffering in ones life. Do what the lord would have you do. Thru our guild he teach us what he wants from us and he is teaching you that drinking is no good for you heed his council and he will bless you in your life with good health.
well.. Jesus did turn the water into wine!
If you drink in moderate amounts, it isn’t considered sinful.
But if you get drunk all the time, then it is probabily a sin.
There is more Scripture condemning the use of alcoholic beverages than will be found on the subjects of lying, adultery, swearing, cheating, hypocrisy, pride, or even blasphemy.
1) Genesis 9:20-26 – Noah became drunk; the result was immorality and family trouble.
2) Genesis 19:30-38 – Lot was so drunk he did not know what he was doing; this led to immorality
3) Leviticus 10:9-11 – God commanded priests not to drink so that they could tell the difference between the holy and the unholy.
4) Numbers 6:3 – The Nazarites were told to eat or drink nothing from the grape vine.
5) Deuteronomy 21:20 – A drunken son was stubborn and rebellious.
6) Deuteronomy 29:5-6 – God gave no grape juice to Israel nor did they have intoxicating drink in the wilderness.
7) Deuteronomy 32:33 – Intoxicating wine is like the poison of serpents, the cruel venom of asps.
Judges 13:4, 7, 14 – Samson was to be a Nazarite for life. His mother was told not to drink wine or strong drink.
9) 1 Samuel 1:14-15 – Accused, Hannah said she drank no wine.
10) 1 Samuel 25:32-38 – Nabal died after a drunken spree.
11) 2 Samuel 11:13 – By getting Uriah drunk, David hoped to cover his sin.
12) 2 Samuel 13:28-29 – Amnon was drunk when he was killed.
13) 1 Kings 16:8-10 – The king was drinking himself into drunkenness when he was assassinated
14) 1 Kings 20:12-21 – Ben-Hadad and 32 other kings were drinking when they were attacked and defeated by the Israelites.
15) Esther 1:5-12 – The king gave each one all the drink he wanted. The king was intoxicated when he commanded the queen to come.
16) Psalm 75:8 – The Lord’s anger is pictured as mixed wine poured out and drunk by the wicked.
17) Proverbs 4:17 – Alcoholic drink is called the wine of violence.
18) Proverbs 20:1 – Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging.
19) Proverbs 23:19-20 – A wise person will not be among the drinkers of alcoholic beverages.
20) Proverbs 23:21 – Drunkenness causes poverty.
21) Proverbs 23:29-30 – Drinking causes woe, sorrow, fighting, babbling, wounds without cause and red eyes.
22) Proverbs 23:31 – God instructs not to look at intoxicating drinks.
23) Proverbs 23:32 – Alcoholic drinks bite like a serpent, sting like an adder.
24) Proverbs 23:33 – Alcohol causes the drinker to have strange and adulterous thoughts, produces willfulness, and prevents reformation.
25) Proverbs 23:34 – Alcohol makes the drinker unstable
26) Proverbs 23:35 – Alcohol makes the drinker insensitive to pain so he does not perceive it as a warning. Alcohol is habit forming.
27) Proverb 31:4-5 – Kings, Princes, and others who rule and judge must not drink alcohol. Alcohol perverts good judgment.
28) Proverbs 31:6-7 – Strong drink could be given to those about to perish or those in pain. Better anesthetics are available today.
29) Ecclesiastes 2:3 – The king tried everything, including intoxicating drink, to see if it satisfied. It did not. (Ecclesiastes 12:8)
30) Ecclesiastes 10:17 – A land is blessed when its leaders do not drink.
31) Isaiah 5:11-12 – Woe to those who get up early to drink and stay up late at night to get drunk.
32) Isaiah 5:22 – Woe to “champion” drinkers and “experts” at mixing drinks.
33) Isaiah 19:14 – Drunken men stagger in their vomit.
34) Isaiah 22:12-13 – The Israelites choose to drink; their future looks hopeless to them.
35) Isaiah 24:9 – Drinkers cannot escape the consequences when God judges.
36) Isaiah 28:1 – God pronounces woe on the drunkards of Ephraim.
37) Isaiah 28:3 – Proud drunkards shall be trodden down.
38) Isaiah 28:7 – Priests and prophets stagger and reel from beer and wine, err in vision, and stumble in judgment.
39) Isaiah 28:8 – Drinkers’ tables are covered with vomit and filth.
40) Isaiah 56:9-12 – Drinkers seek their own gain and expect tomorrow to be just like today.
41) Jeremiah 35:2-14 – The Rechabites drank no grape juice or intoxicating wine and were blessed.
42) Ezekiel 44:21 – Again God instructed the priests not to drink wine.
43) Daniel 1:5-17 – Daniel refused the king’s intoxicating wine and was blessed for it along with his abstaining friends.
44) Daniel 5:1 – Belshazzar, ruler of Babylon; led his people in drinking.
45) Daniel 5:2-3 – The king, along with his nobles, wives, and concubines, drank from the goblets which had been taken from God’s temple.
46) Daniel 5:4 – Drinking wine was combined with praising false gods.
47) Daniel 5:23 – God sent word to Belshazzar that punishment would be swift for the evil he had committed.
48) Hosea 4:11 – Intoxicating wine takes away intelligence.
49) Hosea 7:5 – God reproves princes for drinking.
50) Joel 1:5 – Drunkards awake to see God’s judgment.
51) Joel 3:3 – The enemy is judged for selling girls for wine.
52) Amos 2:8 – Unrighteous acts of Israel included the drinking of wine which had been taken for the payment of fines.
53) Amos 2:12
Doing anything in excess can be considered gluttony, which is one of the deadly sins. Drinking in moderation, such as a glass of wine or two at dinner isn’t considered a sin. Only when it gets to the point of hurting yourself or, as the bible calls it, “The Temple” is it bad.
Just drinking alcohol is not a sin in my eyes, but being drunk is. If it was a sin to drink alcohol, then, in some way it would be a sin to take Communion if you get technical about it. Jesus Himself drank wine, but He did not over indulge in it.
My thought is that if you drink, do not do so to where you become drunk.
P.S.
My dad drinks everyone once in a while, and he’s a Methodist Christian.
My ‘answer’ won’t help you. I’m going to give it biblicaly but you’ll need to
think about ‘why the guilt?’ Until you’ve traced this, I think you’ll be
harassed with this. You’re, of course, 100% on re: wine, alcohol etc.
You also recall Jesus turning the water into wine at the wedding feast,
right? And then the host (I think it was) being amazed at how this
was better than the original. You know the people never did that,
put out the best at the last because once the guests were imbibing,
it didn’t matter much what they served so they, of course, could
serve less than their best. This is literally, not said meanly or
sarcastically, OK?, your problem, not the bible. It could be
other family, or church but you’re getting flack somewhere likely
‘in the spirit’ realm from those who are against this, think they’re
right.
Not with in itself…But the consequences of drinking could very well be.
No. We’re told to ‘give a little wine to the poor in spirit’ and to take a little wine for the stomach.
Noah’s sons were not supposed to see him naked. We’re not supposed to be drunkards.
It is ok to drink but not to get drunk.
Drinking alcohol isn’t a sin. Drinking it to excess is.
Jesus not only made alcohol, he drank it himself. “The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners.”
According to Deut 14:26 “and thou shat bestow that money for whatever thy soul lusteth after, for oxen, for sheep, FOR WINE, or FOR STRONG DRINK… and thou shalt eat there befoe the Lord thy God and thou shalt rejoice, thou and thou household.
Judges 9:13, “And the vine said unto them, Should I leave my WINE, which cheereth God and man, and go to be promoted over the trees?”
According to Jesus, there will be wine served in heaven, “Verily I say unto you, I will drink no more of the fruit of the vine, until that day I drink it new in the kingdom of God.”
Alcohol is fine. Drunkennes isn’t.