Do Baptists believe Jesus drank wine or grape juice?

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Tonight I was speaking with a Baptist friend long distance and I don’t remember our topic of conversation, but I said something about Jesus drinking wine and I heard her gasp. She said Jesus didn’t
drink the wine like we drink today. I think she was offended I insinuated Jesus drank wine. Do Baptists or other protestants think Jesus drank grape juice?
I was not insinuating Jesus became intoxicated, but I don’t have a problem
that Jesus drank wine. Do Baptists?
My friend says they drank a different wine
back then. I always thought wine is wine.
 
7_Sorrows said:
Do Baptists or other protestants think Jesus drank grape juice?
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Since the 1800s Temperance Movement in the United States, there is a wide segment of Protestant churches that preach abstinence from alcohol in order to avoid sin and the social problems that can come from alcohol.

Some who take this position feel the need to offer scriptural justification for this practice which (to any rational reader of scripture) has very little to no obvious scriptural warrant. Therefore, one argument is that the wine back in Jesus’ time would have been much weaker than the wine we produce today.

Another argument is that the ancients did have ways to produce unfermented grape juice and they just called it wine, so wherever we have Jesus or Christians associated with the word “wine” we can safely assume that this is an unfermented grape juice product.
 
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Some Protestants, presumably including your Baptist friend, use grape juice instead of wine at their Holy Communion or Last Supper. But at the original Last Supper, that Thursday night in Jerusalem,they drank wine.
 
I have no problem with Jesus drinking real wine as I figure it was the custom of the day when breaking bread with friends.
I don’t think there is any scripture that would lead us to think that just because Jesus drank wine, he drank enough to become intoxicated.
 
Thanks for sharing this article @powerandglory

Do you know what magazine or website it
is from?
 
Did you know that people can survive a nuclear explosion by shutting themselves in a refrigerator?
 
One argument I have heard is that they will concede that ancient and medieval people drank alcoholic beverages (due to their antibacterial properties), but that in the present age, modern sanitation makes this unnecessary and therefore they say we should abstain from alcohol.
 
One final thought, who would serve grape juice at a wedding!

They often watered down the wine as they rarely drank pure water due to questionable sources which allowed them to drink larger quantities without getting drunk yet keep hydrated but everyone drank wine, including children.

Europeans drank beer for the same reason. They might not have a clue why water sometimes made them sick but they knew it did and they also knew that sewage was dumped in their water sources (rivers and lakes) as well.

It was wine. It could be stronger or weaker than ours today but it was wine! Cheers!
 
Non-alcoholic wedding receptions are the norm in fundamentalist circles. Nobody thinks there is anything strange about it.

As an aside, when my niece in Poland had her first communion many years ago, I noticed that the family reception had no alcohol. Let’s just say that at a Polish social gathering, the alcohol was conspicuous by its absence 😁 I asked about this and I was told the pastors had asked that first communion parties be alcohol-free. They said “it had been known to cause problems in the past”. I just smiled knowingly and continued to enjoy the reception. You’d have to understand Polish culture to get the irony of this.
 
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Non-alcoholic wedding receptions are the norm in fundamentalist circles. Nobody thinks there is anything strange about it.
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Not a Jewish wedding, though! I imagine that there has been one or two Jewish weddings without alcohol if a parent or some guests are recovering alcoholics but I have NEVER. been to Jewish wedding without wine or champagne.
 
I was told that at the kiddush in some synagogues, even some Orthodox synagogues, the rabbi blesses grape juice instead of wine.
 
That may be true now…I don’t know as I no longer attend shul (synagogue) but up until the seventies, it was always wine. Mogen David to the rescue!😂 (blech)
 
I think Mogen David might have been my intro to wine. Around age 6-7.

It got better.
 
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