Alcoholic beverages have been around since early days of Noah. Although, after the introduction of distilled spirits in the Middle Ages, alcohol problems increased significantly. Today, alcohol abuse has caused a disastrous problems and brought sorrow to many people today. Because the number of alcohol abuse problems, the Bible’s teachings on alcohol have become more relevant than ever. There are a number of bible verses that discuss the problem:
• The Bible states that avoiding alcohol is a way of conveying devotion to God.
The Nazirite vow, Daniel and John the Baptist are examples of this:
“The Lord instructed Moses: ‘…When a man or woman makes a special vow, a Nazirite vow, to consecrate himself to the Lord, he is to abstain from wine
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“Daniel determined that he would not defile himself with the king’s food or with the wine he drank. So he asked permission from the chief official not to defile himself” (Daniel 1:8).
John the Baptist
“But the angel said to him: Do not be afraid, Zechariah, because your prayer has been heard. Your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you will name him John.
There will be joy and delight for you, and many will rejoice at his birth.
For he will be great in the sight of the Lord and will never drink wine or beer. He will be filled with the Holy Spirit while still in his mother’s womb” (Luke 1:13-15).
The Bible also highlights the danger of
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They stumble because of beer, they are muddled in [their] visions, they stumble in [their] judgments” (Isaiah 28:7).
THE BIBLE ALSO FROWNS UPON DRUNKARDNESS
“For the drunkard and the glutton will become poor, and grogginess will clothe [them] in rags” (Proverbs 23:21).
“Let us walk with decency, as in the daylight: not in carousing and drunkenness…” (Romans 13:13).
“Do not be deceived: no sexually immoral people, idolaters… [nor] drunkards… will inherit God’s kingdom” (1 Corinthians 6:9-10).
“Now the works of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, moral impurity, promiscuity, idolatry, sorcery, hatreds, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambitions, dissensions, factions, envy, drunkenness, carousing, and anything similar, about which I tell you in advance—as I told you before—that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God” (Galatians 5:19-21).
The Bible provides us with reasons as to no drink alcoholic