[geeks] OW.

[bill pointon]

i am reading and responding late as usual but we seem to have a 
misunderstanding of the term wine as often used in the bible --as they 
lived in a desert region the availability of water was limited so they 
used wine often to drink - but in this case it meant unfermented fruit 
juice ---- wine coming from the same root word as vine - meaning fruit 
of the vine -- billp
On Friday, March 8, 2002, at 09:25 , Joshua D Boyd wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 12:30:57AM -0600, Geek wrote:
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>>> After all, it *was* Jesus who turned water into wine.  Drink up!
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>> As I was told when I questioned that, I was told simply that where
>> and when he did that, they couldn;t drink the water. Thus, wine was
>> the only way to avoid dehydration. Not my point, just a quote.
>
> If that was the only reason for drinking wine, then why wouldn't Jesus 
> have
> just purified the water?
>
> Arguments like that (and I realize that you are just passing on someone 
> elses
> for interests sake) really annoy me.  Drinking wine is a quite 
> persistant
> theme in the old and new testments, and what it does say is not to be 
> drunken
> or let your mind be clouded if you have important things to do.
>
> --
> Joshua D. Boyd
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