The Wedding Feast At Cana...

[sandyRoe]

By the time the water was turned into wine the wedding guests must have already had a few. How could they have known that what they were drinking was better, unless the first drinks they were offered were dire?

[woofgang]

keyplus, wine and beer were used to make water safer to drink and also as a valuable source of calories and vitamins.
You might as well say that God didn't create tobacco, marijuana and arsenic!

[mikey4444]

Sandy...It could have been Ribena, for all we know !

[sandyRoe]

Isn't there an account in the apocrypha of the wedding feast? If that's to be believed it definitely wasn't Ribena the guests were supping.
The best man got into a fight with the brides father while her mother spent the rest of the evening shouting: 'Leave it, Simon of Hebron, leave it. He's not worth it,'
You wouldn't get into that state on a blackcurrant drink.

[BlackadderV]

//Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities.//

Spot on, Sandy. I have a large stomach and loads of infirmities. Cheers!

[sandyRoe]

BlackadderV, you can find good advice and comfort in the Bible if you just know where to look

[BlackadderV]

Please don't tell me you're morphing into Goodlife!☺

[sandyRoe]

If he would lighten up, let his hair down, and heed the adage, A day without wine is a day without sunshine, he be a much better Christian.

[BlackadderV]

I remember being shown years ago (and it is correct) that if you read Psalm 46 in the AV, then, counting from the start the 46th word is Shake, and, counting backwards from the end the 46th word is Speare. Odd, or what?

[sandyRoe]

Didn't James 1 commission the best writers of their day to produce an updated version of the text? The Bard might have put his own name in as a bit of a joke.

[The Builder]

"Give beer to those who are perishing, wine to those who are in anguish; let them drink and forget their poverty and remember their misery no more."

Proverbs 31

[BlackadderV]

I don't think he was involved. There is no evidence to suggest that Shakespeare was an expert in Hebrew, Latin and Greek.

[sandyRoe]

While it's said he had little Greek and less Latin he might not have needed them. With his masterly touch he could have taken a drab, pedestrian, piece of prose and turned it into something magical.

[keyplus90]

God did create Majuana, tobacco ets. Yes but God gave people brain to see what is right and what is wrong. But fortunately I still have to see someone who says that he is destroying himself with tobacco or majuana because God created it. However I know so many Christians who solely drink Wine (Alcohol) because Jesus turned water into wine. And then comes sandy's next point about "moderation", I have spoken to many alcoholics who started with moderation. There is no moderation when it comes to any addiction.

[vulcan42]

Every form of addiction is bad, whether it be alcohol, tobacco or postulating on chat sites.

[Old_Geezer]

I reckon they just popped out to the offie for a bit, and no one noticed.

[Ric.ror]

Don't the rivers of Paradise flow with the finest wine according to the Koran?

[Tilly2]

Never mind the water into wine, what about the wine into blood bit?

[sandyRoe]

Indeed, at that solemn moment in The Mass when the celebrant utters, 'Hoc est corpus meum', and a piece of bread is transubstantiated into the body of our saviour while a chalice of so-so wine suddenly becomes his precious blood, that's a miricle that's performed each and every day.

[Old_Geezer]

Have they ever tested it to see what type it is ? Could be useful if short for a transfusion at the local hospital.

[sandyRoe]

It's a class of metaphorical blood. I can't see the transfusion people having much use for it.