What Does the Bible Say About Alcohol and Drugs?
by Jeffrey W. Hamilton
Biblical View of Alcohol
- Old Testament Beverages
- New Testament Beverages
- "Wine" Has Not Always Implied Alcohol
- Not What They Told You -- Alcohol
- I Peter 4:3 and "Social Drinking"
- Notes on Alcohol
- The Question of Wine and the Drink-Offering of the Old Testament
- Do you have sources showing that oinos and yayin can mean both fermented and unfermented drinks?
- What dictionary did you use to define the Hebrew words for wine in your article?
Could Fermentation Be Prevented in Ancient Times?
Jesus Making Wine at the Wedding Feast
- When the Guests are Drunk?
- Did Jesus drink wine at parties?
- Where did you find that the duties of the ruler of the wedding feast included discouraging drunkenness?
- How do you answer people who try to use Jesus turning water to wine as proof for drinking alcohol?
Responses to Arguments for Using Alcohol
- A Question to be Answered
- Does nothing defiles a man include things like alcohol?
- Elders, Deacons, Timothy, and Wine
- Was Timothy a Nazirite?
- Does Colossians 2:16 prove that drinking alcohol is permitted?
- If God doesn't tempt people with evil, then why did God command the Rechabites to drink wine?
- Does Proverbs 31:6-7 give approval to the use of alcohol?
- Social Drinking
- Does "wine on the lees" support the use of alcohol?
- Why is the qualification for deacons "not given to much wine?"
- What about deacons not being given to much wine, doesn't this allow for a casual drink?
- Could Paul have told Timothy to drink grape juice for his stomach's sake?
- Wasn't wine used during the Lord's Supper?
- Why wasn't Noah condemned for getting drunk?
- Does the Gospel Sanction the Use of Beverage Alcohol in Different Countries According to Local Customs?
- Can Romans 14:21 be used to justify the use of alcoholic beverages?
- How do you answer someone who claims "new wine" in Acts 2:13 must be alcoholic?
Sobriety Is Required
The Dangers of Alcohol
- Study Finds Alcohol Use Is Dangerous to the Heart
- The Cost of Drinking Alcohol
- No Safe Level of Alcohol Consumption
- Alcohol Causes More Deaths than Opioids
- Moderate Drinking Is Not Healthy
- The Value of Taking a Drink
- Flaws Found in Moderate Drinking Studies
- Alcohol Consumption Linked to Cancer
- Adolescent Alcohol Use
- They Know It Is Wrong, But They Don't Care
- Social Drinking
Dealing with Drinkers and Drug Users
- How do you quit drinking and smoking?
- How do I deal with my parents' drinking?
- How to deal with an alcoholic husband?
- Is it wrong to attend events where people might be drinking or smoking?
- Where should I go from here? I'm an alcoholic, my wife has left me, and I doubt my baptism
- Can a Christian be addicted to alcohol?
- Why doesn't God deliver the addicts in our congregation after all our prayers?
- Leaving the Pit
- How is smoking weed any worse than drinking once in a while?
- Can I be forgiven of my sins?
- I try not to drink or fornicate, I still end up doing it, and I really need help
- How can I be a good friend to a guy that has lots of problems with drugs and drinking?
- My husband, who is an addict, left me. What do I do?
- I'm addicted to alcohol. I want to quit, but I just can't seem to help myself
- How do I handle a husband with a drinking problem?
