Poor Christian teetotalers

Those Christians committed to the notion that true disciples won't touch alcohol just can't catch a break from modern archaeology and anthropology. Another careful study purports to show that ancient Israelites not only drank wine ( a well established fact,) but also drank a great deal of beer. As disconcerting as this is to our puritan friends, who scorn God's creation by declaring bits of it evil, it really should surprise no one that a drink that results in an alcohol preserved form of grain for human consumption would become popular in a pre-refrigeration culture. Besides, if alcohol were evil why would the Holy Ghost inspire scripture passages like the psalm  "He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth;  And wine that maketh glad the heart of man," ( psalm 104, KJV,) or "Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake," ( I Tim.)

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