Did Jesus Drink Alcohol?

[1holycatholic]

A methodist minister I know argues that grapes are grapes and it doesn’t matter if one uses wine or grape juice. How does one respond to that??

Grapes are grapes and wine is wine. The Sacred Tradition (oral and written) indicates that wine is to be used.
2 Thess 2:15:

Therefore, brothers, stand firm and hold fast to the traditions that you were taught, either by an oral statement or by a letter of ours.

It appears that he would prefer to substitute the traditions of men in place of Sacred Tradition.

Ask him why he isn’t in the one Bible believing Church - the Catholic Church.

 

[Starwynd]

Boy, this is a great example of the phrase “we all make God in our own image”.

 

[Spirithound]

A methodist minister I know argues that grapes are grapes and it doesn’t matter if one uses wine or grape juice. How does one respond to that??

Full wine, usually 10% to 18% (I think) alcohol content is the usual thing to be used. In the Catholic Mass, the bishop may grant permission for “mustum” to be used, which is “beverage of grapes” whose fermentation has been naturally halted, and so has a lower alcohol content. The reason that “grape juice” of today is not allowed is because preservatives and stuff is added now which makes it not historically accurate. Similarly, our Communion wafers are made from flour and water, just as the matzoh of the Jewish Passover is made.