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Beer is also mentioned in the Bible

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There’s another alcoholic beverage mentioned in the Bible called “strong drink. The Hebrew word for “strong drink,” shakar, refers to fermented barley, which is why some translations call it “beer.” Shakar had an ABV of around 6-12 percent, similar to a Belgium Tripel Ale or a Double IPA. Like all alcoholic beverages, the Bible prohibits abusing beer (Isaiah 5:11; 28:7; Proverbs 20:1; 31:4). But in moderation, drinking beer was encouraged (Proverbs 31:6). In fact, Deuteronomy 14:26 actually commands Israelites to use some of their tithe money to buy some beers and celebrate before the Lord. (Ever hear that verse being read as the ushers are passing the plates?) They were also commanded to offer up two liters of beer to God six days a week and even more on the Sabbath (see Numbers 28:7-10). This is why the absence of beer (and wine) was an outcome of God’s judgment on the nation.
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Let's talk about beer here - about wine in the other thread.

Beer is fine and wine is fine - but never the twain should get mixed. :)
 
Now I have opened this thread, I ask: What is your favourite beer? Or beers?
 
When in France, we usually drink Belgian beer (if we don't drink wine) :)
 
Munro said:
When in France, we usually drink Belgian beer (if we don't drink wine) :)
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Belgians whites are excellent and very clean tasting- refreshing.
 
Belgian beer is often made in former monasteries - same here in Germany. :)
 
Munro said:
Belgian beer is often made in former monasteries - same here in Germany. :)
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Heineken was my favorite beer as a teenager and when I went clubbing in the 70's. Becks was also one I enjoyed :)
 
preacher4truth said:
Me and my buddy went to a place called Claim Jumpers in the Bay area after a Raiders game years ago. Ever been there?
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No I have not is that in the East Bay ? I moved out of the Bay in 1998 into the Central Valley.
 
Concerning any consumption of alcohol...

Pro 20:1, Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.

Pro 23:29, Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?
Pro 23:30, They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.
Pro 23:31, Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright.
Pro 23:32, At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
Pro 23:33, Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.
Pro 23:34, Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast.
Pro 23:35, They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.

Eph 5:18 (nlt), Don’t be drunk with wine, because that will ruin your life. Instead, be filled with the Holy Spirit,
 
Mat 24:45, Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?
Mat 24:46, Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.
Mat 24:47, Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods.
Mat 24:48, But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;
Mat 24:49, And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken;
Mat 24:50, The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of,
Mat 24:51, And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
 
In posts 11 and 12 the warning is about being drunk, not the consumption of alcohol.

Deuteronomy 14:26
You may spend the money for whatever your heart desires: for oxen, or sheep, or wine, or strong drink, or whatever your heart desires; and there you shall eat in the presence of the LORD your God and rejoice, you and your household.
 
Fred said:
In posts 11 and 12 the warning is about being drunk, not the consumption of alcohol.

Deuteronomy 14:26
You may spend the money for whatever your heart desires: for oxen, or sheep, or wine, or strong drink, or whatever your heart desires; and there you shall eat in the presence of the LORD your God and rejoice, you and your household.
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So, the obvious solution is, when you drink, don't drink enough to get buzzed.
 
Fred said:
That is not why I choose to do so.



Some can choose to do so if they want.

Others can drink both.

Still others can drink neither one if they so choose.
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Everyone is free to choose whatever the choice may be. ;)
 
Rom 14:20, For meat destroy not the work of God. All things indeed are pure; but it is evil for that man who eateth with offence.
Rom 14:21, It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.
Rom 14:22, Hast thou faith? have it to thyself before God. Happy is he that condemneth not himself in that thing which he alloweth.
Rom 14:23, And he that doubteth is damned if he eat, because he eateth not of faith: for whatsoever is not of faith is sin.

It has been said that if you only drink socially, you are not an alcoholic; but if you drink also in private when no one else is looking, you may in fact be an alcoholic.

Here, we find that we are not to drink socially because that may stumble a fellow believer who is an alcoholic.

That leaves no room for drinking...whether in private or in public.
 
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