Dear Brother,
You have plucked one verse out of a passage and taken it out of context. That’s what cults due! Here is the whole passage:
Proverbs 23:29-35
29Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?30 They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine. 31 Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright. 32 At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder. 33 Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things. 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. 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.
This passage is referring to drunkenness. Verse 29-35:
“Who hath woe? Who hath sorrow? ..” “..They that tarry long at the wine”
Verse 33: “Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.”
Verse 35: “..they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.“
I’m still waiting for the verse (or passage) that says that any drinking by a Christian is sin. I will give you a hint, you won’t find one. Instead the Bible offers MANY STRONG warnings about alcohol and there are MANY examples of abuse in the Bible. I don’t know why GOD did not make all drinking sin. I am not to question Him. I just take His word by faith.
In the love of Christ!