On the other hand we should want to strengthen our brethren.
Alcohol is non-polar and the basis of many other medicines because (one of the reasons) it will dissolve other medicinal substances which are insoluble in water.
It is amoral.
Personally, I abstain but not because I believe that there is anything intrinsically evil about alcohol.
Matthew 15:16 And Jesus said, Are ye also yet without understanding?
17 Do not ye yet understand, that whatsoever entereth in at the mouth goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught?
18 But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man.
Romans 14:
14 I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean.
15 But if thy brother be grieved with thy meat, now walkest thou not charitably. Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom Christ died.
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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.
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.
God's word calls wine "pure".
It's our lack of love and concern for our brethren not the wine that is evil.
The use of alcoholic beverages can be wrong but not because alcohol is evil of itself.
To say that any substance is evil in and of itself is to go against the Scriptures.
Even drugs are amoral and are medicines to be used under the proper control of a doctor.
How would you like to have the dentist drill your teeth without novocaine (a derivative of cocaine)?
It is the misuse of the drug that is evil.
To flaunt one's faith liberty before a brother or sister is also evil.
HankD
Alcohol is non-polar and the basis of many other medicines because (one of the reasons) it will dissolve other medicinal substances which are insoluble in water.
It is amoral.
Personally, I abstain but not because I believe that there is anything intrinsically evil about alcohol.
Matthew 15:16 And Jesus said, Are ye also yet without understanding?
17 Do not ye yet understand, that whatsoever entereth in at the mouth goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught?
18 But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man.
Romans 14:
14 I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean.
15 But if thy brother be grieved with thy meat, now walkest thou not charitably. Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom Christ died.
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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.
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.
God's word calls wine "pure".
It's our lack of love and concern for our brethren not the wine that is evil.
The use of alcoholic beverages can be wrong but not because alcohol is evil of itself.
To say that any substance is evil in and of itself is to go against the Scriptures.
Even drugs are amoral and are medicines to be used under the proper control of a doctor.
How would you like to have the dentist drill your teeth without novocaine (a derivative of cocaine)?
It is the misuse of the drug that is evil.
To flaunt one's faith liberty before a brother or sister is also evil.
HankD
