You call wine grape juice do you not? You say the Bible does. Since rum is made from molasses, should we call molasses cookies rum cookies? Since whiskey is made from wheat, corn, or barely, would it be right to call our bread ‘whiskey dough’?
My wife has made both--cookies from molasses and rum cookies. (rum flavoring).
You misrepresent me.
Neither Lot nor Noah can get drunk on grape juice. The context must determine the meaning of the word. Please remember that.
[FONT="]Matthew 16:6 Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.[/FONT]
[FONT="]Matthew 16:11 How is it that ye do not understand that I spake it not to you concerning bread, that ye should beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees?[/FONT]
[FONT="]Matthew 16:12 Then understood they how that he bade them not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.[/FONT]
[FONT="]Mark 8:15 And he charged them, saying, Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and of the leaven of Herod.[/FONT]
[FONT="]Luke 12:1 In the mean time, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.[/FONT]
[FONT="]1 Corinthians 5:8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.[/FONT]
[FONT="]From the above verse we note:[/FONT]
[FONT="]1. [/FONT][FONT="]Leaven symbolizes false doctrine. [/FONT]
[FONT="]2. [/FONT][FONT="]Leaven symbolizes hypocrisy.[/FONT]
[FONT="]3. [/FONT][FONT="]Leaven symbolizes malice and wickedness. [/FONT]
[FONT="]Concerning the Passover:[/FONT]
[FONT="]Exodus 12:15 Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.[/FONT]
[FONT="]--Absolutely no leaven was allowed. Unleavened bread represented sincerity and truth; leaven represented corruption, malice, hypocrisy, false doctrine. [/FONT]
[FONT="]In the NT the Passover was replaced by the Lord’s Supper. The Lord’s Supper was to be in remembrance of his death; the blood that was shed, the body that was sacrificed. [/FONT]
[FONT="]No unleavened bread was to be used because his body saw no corruption. [/FONT]
[FONT="]Likewise no “unleavened” wine or fermented wine would be used for it would symbolize corrupted blood. But his blood was not tainted with a sin nature. It was divine and pure. Leaven symbolized malice, false doctrine, and hypocrisy. Certainly this symbolism would not be made in reference to the blood of Christ. It would be blasphemous to do such. [/FONT]
[FONT="]The process of fermentation is described here. [/FONT]
[FONT="]Proverbs 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.[/FONT]
[FONT="]--Don’t even look upon fermented wine, much less drink it.[/FONT]
[FONT="]--when it turns its color, that is when it has begun the fermentation process.[/FONT]
[FONT="]--when it moves itself aright, that is when the yeast has begun and the fermentation has begun.[/FONT]
[FONT="]Proverbs 23:32-33 At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder. Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.[/FONT]
[FONT="]--The result is given of drinking fermented wine. [/FONT]