Did Jesus make wine or grape juice

by jam 14 years ago 25 Replies latest 14 years ago jw friends

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  Scully 14 years ago

  I think someone peed in a cup and they called it champagne.

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  jam 14 years ago

  The word translated "wine" cannot, with any degree of

  certainty, be proven to be either intoxicating or not

  intoxicating. The greek word "oinos" is A generic term,

  which designates the grape in all it stages, (according

  to William Patton, Bible wine, Star Bible Publications).

  OK, so it was wine that was water down.

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  Haulin Oats 14 years ago

  I asked a mormon guy I worked with why they don't drink but yet Jesus (their leader in part) turned water in to wine. He said it was grape-juice not wine. Ok. So last time i checked, Welch's never made me hallucinate or see visions. I wonder what he would have said if I asked him what HE thought Jesus made at the festival.... Oh, well. You can't save 'em all.

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  TTWSYF 14 years ago

  I remember reading somewhere that the wine would kill germs [like from the plague or something] and that grape juice wouldn't so the non-catholics would get sick more often in the dark ages.

  Anyone ever hear such things before?

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  thetrueone 14 years ago

  This part of the bible story always got to me as a bit weird, Jesus making wine for people to get drunk on, why did a perfect unsinful man

  do that. A good god would have turned that filthy intoxicant back into fresh and healthy grape juice.

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  jam 14 years ago

  TTwsyf; You may be thinking of about the "Four Thieves

  historic Anti Plague remedy". Original recipe for the Four

  thieves formula, included 3 pints of white wine vineger.

  Supposedly this remedy work for some doing the black plague.

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  badseed 14 years ago

  Jesus turned water into wine cause he was just as pissed off as the rest that they had run out. He wanted the party to continue.

  Grape juice, ya right.

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  losthobbit 14 years ago

  If I were Jesus, I would have turned water into an eternal fountain of strawberry milkshake...

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  metatron 14 years ago

  They didn't put "new wine into old wineskins" because it would go ka-boom.

  metatron

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  ProdigalSon 14 years ago

  Did anyone ever wonder, since Jesus had the power to raise the dead and cure leprosy, that his first miracle would be to appease a bunch of already-trashed party-goers?

  It ain't a literal story folks. Thankfully, Jesus didn't diss his mom. "Turning water into wine" has its origination in Alchemy....

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alchemy

  You might find this interesting....

  http://www.thealchemycode.org/?q=node/1651

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