You need booze to understand Watchtower doctrine.
Don't take my booze!
by David.L.Henson 13 Replies latest jw friends
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Disillusioned JW
The Seventh-day Adventists are against drinking alcohol (and strongly promote vegetarianism, and Ellen G. White even promoted veganism) and medical studies on longevity have shown that the Seventh-day Adventists are one the groups of people with the longest longevity in the world! [Also from very early times the SDA has forbidden smoking, whereas the WT didn't forbid it until the 1970s.] See https://www.adventist.org/official-statements/historic-stand-for-temperance-principles-and-acceptance-of-donations-statement-impacts-social-change/ and https://www.adventist.org/official-statements/drugs/ . One of the Bible-based arguments the SDA use is that the body is the temple of God. Maybe the JWs would live longer if they adopted that view regarding alcoholic drinks. [However, some SDA literature discourages the use of spices, whereas modern science has shown that some spices have major health benefits.]
The SDA teach that Jesus did not use fermented grape juice (wine) during the last supper. The NT verses about the last supper say the "fruit of the vine" [see Matthew 26:29 (NASB-Updated) for example] - they don't specifically say wine, thus scripturally wine is not required. For two or three years, after I stopped considering myself a JW and before I became a nontheist, I celebrated the Memorial by myself (and conducted it myself) using juice I freshly squeezed from red grapes and I partook of the emblems.
Regarding the longevity of the SDA see https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-7731947/Seventh-Day-Adventists-longer-life-expectancy-lower-cancer-risk-study-finds.html and https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/25/health/longevity-blue-zone-wellness/index.html .
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BluesBrother
I agree with Disillusioned JW ... I lost count of the number of times he called intoxicating liquor “ evil “
The article does not promote drinking or violating prohibition laws . He is saying that such laws do not come from God , which I gather some were saying at the time. It is a diatribe against the Government. This was before they fathomed out that they were the “superior authorities “ to be obeyed.
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dropoffyourkeylee
I despise Rutherford, but he wasn’t alone at the time in opposing Prohibition. It did little except foster crime and proved unworkable.