SR VII: It's extreme male brooding!

Ricochet wrote: Epignosis wrote: So I have been slacking in my beer consumption this week- things keep coming up. Now tomorrow, we are having a bunch of people from the church to help us move.  As far as I know, these people consider the consumption of alcoholic beverages a sin (something I never understood, since Jesus was a producer of them- see John chapter two). So now I have twenty beers in my refrigerator.  They need to be gone by tomorrow morning because I don't feel like hiding them from a bunch of people (including the pastor). What to do...what to do... You have to empty the fridge, so put the beer and everything in bags or such that don't interest any other person coming to help. Or drink it all tonight, that wouldn't be weird in your case. And really, pull the "Frankly, I don't give a ..." on this anti-alcohol nonsense. My best friend is such of a baptist, and we don't have problems (except he does remind me sometimes that getting even slightly dizzy from it is a sin hahaha). I mostly come with the argument that I like wine, and wine is pretty naturally produced - beer too, I know. So they should either start a crucade on producing beer and wine (& others) being a tool of the Devil (no, really, don't...), or STFU. I also came at one point with a counter-biblical argument, related to the expression of Jesus' blood as wine. At which my friend said there's evidence in the Scriptures that that Last Supper wine was actually 60% water and only a bit alcohol. ...huh? What do you think about this, Rob? Half of my class or my school was also full of baptists  - well, here, some folks were less illuminated as to leave me be.

 ²⁹ Who has woe? Who has sorrow?
       Who has strife? Who has complaints?
       Who has needless bruises? Who has bloodshot eyes?

 ³⁰ Those who linger over wine,
       who go to sample bowls of mixed wine.

 ³¹ Do not gaze at wine when it is red,
       when it sparkles in the cup,
       when it goes down smoothly!

 ³² In the end it bites like a snake
       and poisons like a viper.

 ³³ Your eyes will see strange sights
       and your mind imagine confusing things.

 ³⁴ You will be like one sleeping on the high seas,
       lying on top of the rigging.

 ³⁵ "They hit me," you will say, "but I'm not hurt!
       They beat me, but I don't feel it!
       When will I wake up
       so I can find another drink?"

Jewish writings state that there can be no celebration without wine- hence, Jesus's first miracle is a most appropriate one- Christianity is depicted in the Bible as a marriage between Christ and his church, so there would need to be wine to celebrate.

At the last supper, Jesus was described his blood as the wine- a perfect metaphor in keeping with the marriage analogy: In biblical times, when a man wanted to propose to a woman (after arrangements with the father had been made), he would offer a glass of wine to the woman.  She could refuse it, meaning she was rejecting the suitor, she could take a sip, which indicated she would consider him, or she could drink all of it, meaning she was devoting herself to that man.

Jesus offered his disciples the cup and instructed them accordingly:

And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it; (Matthew 26:27)

In other words, devote yourself wholly and completely to Christ forever.

Hope this helps.

Still sick, still feel like crap... King Crimson's Lizard only had a temporary effect, now my fever and headache is worse