Is Drinking a Sin? | What Does the Bible Say About Drinking Alcohol or Wine? | GotQuestions.org

What does the Bible say about drinking alcohol? Is drinking a Sin? Is it ok drink wine? Can Christians drink alcohol, if so, how much? Those are real questions that deserve real biblical answers.

In this short video, Pastor Nelson with Bible Munch goes to the Bible for answers. So, if you have questions about, alcohol in the Bible, and whether or not it is a sin to drink wine, beer, or other alcoholic drinks, this video answers those questions and more.

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[WARUMUNGUMOB]

I AM A PREIST FROM THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST LDS, I AM GOING TO SHARE MY TESTAMONY WITH YOU. WHEN WE ARE BAPTISED AND WE HAVE THE HOLY SPIRIT WITH US WE MUST PROTECT IT BY ANY MEANS. ONCE YOU HAVE THE HOLY SPIRIT WITH YOU YOU DO NOT WANT TO LOSE THE BLESSINGS THAT YOU HAVE RECEIVED. FOLLOW ALL OF GODS COMMANDMENTS AND THE WORDS OF WISDOM. WE ARE TO BE CHRIST LIKE. I SAY ALL OF THESE WORDZ IN EVERYTHING THAT IZ SACRED HOLY AND TRUE IN JESUS NAME I PRAY AMEN 🙏🏾

[JJJere]

I have to be honest in what I believe as a believer. Pauls repeated focus point of the topic to the Church is not to be a drunk.
So the question for everyone is, can you drink without over drinking? Everyone is different, so it's not a simple answer. I personally recognized that hard alcohol has a very high alcohol content level, so I push to stay away from it. Wine has much less than the hard so achieving drunkenness is harder to do. Beer has less than half the alcohol content than wine so it's even harder to achieving drunkenness with beer. It is drunkenness that is to be avoided for multiple reasons like mental impairment, social impairment, potientially bad health/untimely death, wasting finances. The drunkenness part is what has to be attacked. Most churches just preach NO on the topic altogether to play it safe or to keep up with passed down traditions.

[sclerenasya]

Im an occassional drinker, i usually drink when my sleeping pills no longer take effect.
Ofcourse also after tiring works like exams or physical exhaustion.
I do feel resentful about it but the remedy it provides is something my mind and body requires.
But then yes the likelihood of getting drunk and doing something out of ordinary is also a possibility, because it act like a stimulant to think or act beyond normal.

[agonz__]

1. Psalm 104:14-15 (NIV): "He makes grass grow for the cattle, and plants for people to cultivate—bringing forth food from the earth: wine that gladdens human hearts, oil to make their faces shine, and bread that sustains their hearts." This verse highlights wine as one of the blessings provided by God that can bring joy.

2. John 2:1-11: This passage describes Jesus' first miracle, where He turned water into wine at a wedding in Cana. This act is often interpreted as an affirmation of the celebratory use of wine in social and religious gatherings.

3. 1 Timothy 5:23 (NIV): "Stop drinking only water, and use a little wine because of your stomach and your frequent illnesses." Paul advises Timothy to use wine for its medicinal properties, indicating its beneficial use in moderation.

These verses show that wine and alcohol can have positive roles when used responsibly and in moderation. Sin is what comes out not what goes in.

[antbanks]

I'm a drunk. I need the holy Spirit

[gnation]

It's the truth but conscience problems is what you need to address.

[Jonycor]

I’m kind of sad I got drunk but I love the Lord I feel like I let him down

[only-truth-]

Perfect 100℅ right in my view I m a Christian

[SKyNT]

If anyone knows Jesus, he knows God too and so Jesus dwells in him and he knows his body and what's in him. If I know my body, I will acknowledge that I was a sinner and know the degree of alcohol that always made me drunk, blackout, not even remember when I slept off, I know the amounts of bottles I drank and the alcohol percentages. So if I know all that, even now that am a new creation in Christ, alcohol is one of the easiest thing for me to control instead of the other way round in the past. And my theory is 3 bottles of beer is now 1 and in a 12% of alcholic wine, my 2 or 3 glasses is equivalent to a bottle of beer. I still be in control of my body and my spirit.

[prachimanghnani]

The fact that the bible is the only book that says "drink but dont get drunk" means a whole lot. Its like what a parent would tell a child. Its makes us responsible for our limit. Its more than just a simple "drink or Dont drink" command. God wants us to always be connected to him in spirit and be an innocent child in that. Yet he talks to us as an adult and leaves the decision on us in this area. Its a very deep charge for us if understood

[ikesters]

The wine from the Christ days was not the wine like today. It is a wine that is not made with old grape but fresh grape. So therefore it wasn't fermented for drunkenness. Any kind of drunkenness is considered harmful to yourself and therefore harmful to what is the temple of God (your body) is it a sin? I wouldn't harm God's temple would you?

[Verveversegrowth]

Well it is said that it would take about 23 glasses of the wine from Christ's Days to have a hit equivalent to one glass of our modern wine

[Jsmelser]

“Temperance is, unfortunately, one of those words that has changed its meaning. It now usually means teetotalism. But in the days when the second Cardinal virtue was christened 'Temperance', it meant nothing of the sort. Temperance referred not specially to drink, but to all pleasures; and it meant not abstaining, but going the right length and no further. It is a mistake to think that Christians ought all to be teetotallers; ... Of course it may be the duty of a particular Christian, or of any Christian, at a particular time, to abstain from strong drink, either because he is the sort of man who cannot drink at all without drinking too much, or because he wants to give the money to the poor, or because he is with people who are inclined to drunkenness and must not encourage them by drinking himself. But the whole point is that he is abstaining, for a good reason, from something which he does not condemn and which he likes to see other people enjoying. One of the marks of a certain type of bad man is that he cannot give up a thing himself without wanting everyone else to give it up. That is not the Christian way. An individual Christian may see fit to give up all sorts of things for special reasons -- marriage or meat, or beer, or the cinema; but the moment he starts saying the things are bad in themselves, or looking down his nose at other people who do use them, he has taken the wrong turning.” -C. S. Lewis

[IronMan-bldd]

So I am saved because I don’t drink alcohol? Or because Jesus died on the cross for my sin’s?

[pinkgardeniagirl]

All ethanol is processed by the liver to acetaldehyde. Both of these are toxic and solvents that are not stopped by the blood brain barrier. Eventually the acetaldehyde is further processed by the liver to acetone which then is burned off. Every drink, every liver. I would be asking any Doctor how ethanol, acetaldehyde or acetone is good for the heart. Doesn't add up.

[foreverbrokerecords]

Is being drunk a sin because some people act violent or sin because I drink two Bud lights five glasses of wine and a whole six pack of beer and I talked to someone about GOD for 2 hours straight

[LifeIsATestTheHereafter]

Drunkenness has its own spectrum. Where do you draw the line?

[enjoythedreamlife]

it is to be a hipocrite to think alcohol is not a sin. Alcohol has destroyed more lives and families! Alcohol is NOT your friend.

[questionsforchristians]

At times I wonder why Jesus didn't teach them how to purify water st that time (boiling/distilling, silver coins in barrel etc.) And while for most of my life I've been a totally sober Latter-day saint, I realized that Jesus brought the "best wine" to the party, Jesus is a Hebrew and all sorts of hebrew holidays are filled with wine, the last purge is called "the great wine-press" and when he comes again he will drink "of the fruit of the vine" with his saints and disciples. Soo ya, I agree drunkenness is bad (specifically condemned in the bible) but drinking wine is not.

[Blue_ocean]

Alcohol is a witchcraft potion. The biblical punishment for witchcraft was death.