Jesus turned water into unfermented wine and not fermented wine.

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Two weeks ago I would have said 'drinking's fine, Jesus turned water to wine', but after reading some materials, I'm not so sure about alcohol or meat being respectable consumptions.

Eusebius, one of the transcribers of the Biblican Canon, wrote in his 'Demonstratio Evangelica', that 'the apostles lived with fasting and abstinence from wine and from meat'. St Clement wrote that Matthew only ate seeds, nuts and vegetables, 'without the flesh', and there's also strong evidence the first christians were vegetarian; the Essenes, the Nazarenes and the Ebionites.

Jesus said he came to do away with, among other things, sacrificing, and the first instances of meat eating were to do with sacrificial animals, a punishment in and of itself for Adam and Eve, having to kill another living thing just to sustain themselves with life, becoming harbingers of death on all fronts. Destroying a life just to continue their own.

There are also indications that many Jews of the time ate the passover like the Qumran, without lamb, against the practices of Herod's temple.

The Old Syriac gospels show Jesus explicitly going against meat, and the Gospel of the Holy Twelve has a story about Jesus coming across a man flogging a donkey and stopping that man from his cruelty, and in the Hebrew Bible, there is a verse about killing animals that says 'whoever slaughters an oxen is like one who kills a human; whoever sacrifices a lamb, does like breaking a dog's neck'.

'Be thou not among flesh eaters and wine drinkers'.

There are also several accounts of Jesus 'fish and bread' story that say the food was actually 'grapes and bread', or 'olives and bread'.

The more I look, the more evidence I find of this.
Eating meat is Biblical. Peter was told by the Lord in a vision to eat unclean animals. This was to show that they were under a New Testament whereby the Greeks (who were not God's chosen people) were now to be accepted as equally as the Jew because we are all joint heirs in Jesus Christ.
 
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Joh 6:55 For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink.
Joh 6:56 Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him.
 

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Two weeks ago I would have said 'drinking's fine, Jesus turned water to wine', but after reading some materials, I'm not so sure about alcohol or meat being respectable consumptions.

Eusebius, one of the transcribers of the Biblican Canon, wrote in his 'Demonstratio Evangelica', that 'the apostles lived with fasting and abstinence from wine and from meat'. St Clement wrote that Matthew only ate seeds, nuts and vegetables, 'without the flesh', and there's also strong evidence the first christians were vegetarian; the Essenes, the Nazarenes and the Ebionites.

Jesus said he came to do away with, among other things, sacrificing, and the first instances of meat eating were to do with sacrificial animals, a punishment in and of itself for Adam and Eve, having to kill another living thing just to sustain themselves with life, becoming harbingers of death on all fronts. Destroying a life just to continue their own.

There are also indications that many Jews of the time ate the passover like the Qumran, without lamb, against the practices of Herod's temple.

The Old Syriac gospels show Jesus explicitly going against meat, and the Gospel of the Holy Twelve has a story about Jesus coming across a man flogging a donkey and stopping that man from his cruelty, and in the Hebrew Bible, there is a verse about killing animals that says 'whoever slaughters an oxen is like one who kills a human; whoever sacrifices a lamb, does like breaking a dog's neck'.

'Be thou not among flesh eaters and wine drinkers'.

There are also several accounts of Jesus 'fish and bread' story that say the food was actually 'grapes and bread', or 'olives and bread'.

The more I look, the more evidence I find of this.
i've been expecting a post like this sooner or later.

the whole case for misreading the story seems to me like a newly converted Pharisee who can't believe that pork is now OK to eat and trying to interpret Peter's vision to mean vegetables and fruit.

if the disciples became vegetarians it wasn't for their own conscience's sake but taking care not to offend the "weaker brethren." you referenced apocryphal material -- there's a reason it wasn't canonized.

but whatever anyone can't receive thankfully, they should avoid.
 
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Hmm, I always thought the event where Jesus turned the water into wine was merely a manifestation of him being the Christ. The governor of the wedding unkowingly confirmed this when he said "you have kept the good wine until now." This is just another supporting sign that indeed Jesus is Messiah for Jesus is the good wine.
 
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What I believe is that you are wresting scripture to conform and validate your own personal belief. Jesus made the wine out of water out of insistence from His mother. He was honoring her. Perhaps you should take this up with her. I advise to be gentle though, as Jesus is protective of Mom.
I believe it is unbiblical to pray to the dead. Such a thing would be making Mary into a god. She cannot possibly answer my prayers because she in not like God where He can answer millions of prayers at once. Only Jesus is the only mediator between God and man. So I would recommend that a person only talks to Him and nobody else. Otherwise, one is being misled by a false spirit.
 

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Hmm, I always thought the event where Jesus turned the water into wine was merely a manifestation of him being the Christ. The governor of the wedding unkowingly confirmed this when he said "you have kept the good wine until now." This is just another supporting sign that indeed Jesus is Messiah for Jesus is the good wine.
I agree with you. Jesus is the good wine.
 
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Look at Paul´s?


1Ti 5:23 (No longer drink only water, but use a little wine for the sake of your stomach and your frequent ailments.)

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I have already said that a person can use wine as a medical treatment and I endorse this passage. But you have to understand it was a LITTLE wine. Also, did Timothy have a chronic stomach ache? From the text, we get the impression that this was occasional and not a chronic problem for Timothy. So I don't see alchohol as a cure all solution for chronic pain. I believe Paul was saying to use a little wine to relieve temporary moments of stomach pains (Which was probably because of the bad water).
 
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Hollywood is not exactly into the fact giving business. They primarily sell fantasies and fiction to entertain audiences. While Hollywood has made and continues to make movies based on real life stories (A lot of times, even these real life stories are distorted or changed in some way from the real thing). I say this because there are historical documents from men in Biblical times (Including Pliny, who was a Roman), who considered the best wine to be that which did not inflame the senses.
I just figure drinking wine back then would be equivalent to our drinking tea today. [At least it seems that way from TV shows depicting Rome!] I mean what did they have to drink back then? Grape juice, wine, goat's milk or water . . . .
That was actually meant as somewhat of a joke . . . .

but if Jesus changed the water into grape juice why didn't He say grape juice? I accept it for what scripture says - 'wine' - fermented or unfermented - scripture does not specify - so I can not, nor anyone else for that matter, say for a certainty that it was fermented or if it was unfermented.
 
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Context and truth dictates other wise and you point is moot and rather hilarious because Jesus himself is the one that CONTRADICTED himself against John...so like I said, go ahead and go to seed on a few scriptures while rejecting obvious, plain and truthful scriptures by the Lord himself...Whatever........!
You are just stating an opinion and are beating your chest and you are not really offering me any Scripture to back up what you believe is actually true.
 
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That was actually meant as somewhat of a joke . . . .

but if Jesus changed the water into grape juice why didn't He say grape juice? I accept it for what scripture says - 'wine' - fermented or unfermented - scripture does not specify - so I can not, nor anyone else for that matter, say for a certainty that it was fermented or if it was unfermented.
This is the same excuse that Ant-Trinitarians use to prove that there is no Trinity. They believe that just because the word "Trinity" is not in the Bible, then the Scriptures do no teach such a thing. However, the Bible does use the word "Godhead", though (3 times). The point I am getting at is that the Bible was not preserved in the English language using our modern lingo. Look up the word "wine" in a dictionary and you will see that it can refer to either fermented or unfermented wine.
 
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Hmm, I always thought the event where Jesus turned the water into wine was merely a manifestation of him being the Christ. The governor of the wedding unkowingly confirmed this when he said "you have kept the good wine until now." This is just another supporting sign that indeed Jesus is Messiah for Jesus is the good wine.
Our thoughts are not God's thoughts. The true test to see what God says on this matter is to ask Him (Jeremiah 33:3) and to study the Scriptures from an unbiased viewpoint and or from the view that glorifies Jesus Christ and His goodness.
 
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First, you are being condescending by calling me your son.................
I did not say, my son, I said son. Yes it was condescending. You, as a tyro, have the audacity to dispute clear analysis of your interpretation of scripture. You need milk, not strong meat.

I am certainly no Job, but you don't even deserve to mentioned in the same breath as Elihu, much less, to act as he did.
 
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Joh 6:55 For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink.
Joh 6:56 Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him.
Drinking his blood is in reference to having faith in His blood by the fact that it cleanses and washes away our sins (Romans 3:25).

Eating his flesh is in reference to John 4:34. For just as it is Christ's meat to do the will of the Father, it is our meat to do the will of Christ and to be conformed to His image.
 
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So, was it fermented wine or not?

Was He wrong, instead or the records?

No man can make Him holier. GOD chose Him for a reason.

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Mat 9:17 Neither is new wine put into old wineskins. If it is, the skins burst and the wine is spilled and the skins are destroyed. But new wine is put into fresh wineskins, and so both are preserved."
 
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Our thoughts are not God's thoughts. The true test to see what God says on this matter is to ask Him (Jeremiah 33:3) and to study the Scriptures from an unbiased viewpoint and or from the view that glorifies Jesus Christ and His goodness.
Aye this is true. Therefore let us examine the scriptures more closely of this same chapter (John 2)

[SUP]3 [/SUP]And when they wanted wine, the mother of Jesus saith unto him, They have no wine.
[SUP]4 [/SUP]Jesus saith unto her, Woman, what have I to do with thee? mine hour is not yet come.

Therefore I still believe Jesus is the good wine. We can also support this with the verses brother hermit posted from John 6.
 
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I did not say, my son, I said son. Yes it was condescending. You, as a tyro, have the audacity to dispute clear analysis of your interpretation of scripture. You need milk, not strong meat.

I am certainly no Job, but you don't even deserve to mentioned in the same breath as Elihu, much less, to act as he did.
Well, we are getting off topic, but who was more justified in the Parable of the Tax Collector and the Pharisee? Was the one who exalted himself or the one who humbled himself before God? (See Luke 18:9-14).

In other words, when one is condescending, they are exalting themselves. I am nothing. We are both nothing. Jesus Christ is everything. To put me down as if I am lesser than you is to defeat that purpose. We who are truly are in Christ are all a part of one body, my friend.
 

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Well, we are getting off topic, but who was more justified in the Parable of the Tax Collector and the Pharisee? Was the one who exalted himself or the one who humbled himself before God? (See Luke 18:9-14).

In other words, when one is condescending, they are exalting themselves. I am nothing. We are both nothing. Jesus Christ is everything. To put me down as if I am lesser than you is to defeat that purpose. We who are truly are in Christ are all a part of one body, my friend.
I am in agreement with you on this, brother. Well said.
 
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So, was it fermented wine or not?

Was He wrong, instead or the records?

No man can make Him holier. GOD chose Him for a reason.

PS

Mat 9:17 Neither is new wine put into old wineskins. If it is, the skins burst and the wine is spilled and the skins are destroyed. But new wine is put into fresh wineskins, and so both are preserved."
Wine is mentioned in the Bible as being either fermented or unfermented. It depends on the context.
Just as "sons of God" can refer to either angels or believers. It depends on the context.

In the case with putting new wine into old wine skins. You have to understand that fermented wine is already fermented. It is the unfermented wine that would go thru the process of fermentation that would stretch the old wine skin bottles and make them to burst because the old wine skins had already been stretched by the process of fermention already (from a previous batch).
 
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Well! fermentation is the problem?



Mat 16:12 Then they understood that he did not tell them to beware of the leaven of bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.