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index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ With the rampant abuse of alcohol in this country, resulting in shattered lives and tens of thousands of deaths each year, any person with a conscience should be deeply concerned about this issue.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ Our attitude toward alcohol may well be conditioned by our culture more than we realize.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ Many of these folks rightfully abstain for fear of their own tendencies to abuse alcohol.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ I have a friend who used to be an alcoholic and now cannot even gargle (since mouthwash usually has a large amount of alcohol) or else he could go into a drinking binge.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ Naturally fermented wine is between 10 percent and 14 percent alcohol.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ The high alcoholic drinks called hard liquor today (40 percent to 50 percent alcohol, or 80 to 100 proof) did not exist in Bible times.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ And because of the enormous destruction caused by alcohol abuse today, many people have decided that it is better to abstain even if the Bible does not require us to.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ Alcoholics, or anyone who reacts adversely to alcohol for any reason, should not drink alcohol privately or socially at all.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ Nor should a person use alcohol in the presence of a recovering alcoholic.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ Drunkenness is discouraged and not infrequently portrayed, and some biblical persons abstained from alcohol.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ Certain persons were forbidden in the Hebrew Bible to partake of wine because of their vows and duties.^9 Kings were forbidden to abuse alcohol lest their judgments be unjust.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ Alcohol was used in ancient times for various medicinal ends, and the Bible refers to some of these practices.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ The Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences estimates that each year alcoholism and alcohol abuse in the United States cost society from $40 to $60 billion, due to lost production, health and medical care, motor vehicle accidents, violent crime, and social programs that respond to alcohol problems.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ One-half of all traffic fatalities and one-third of all traffic injuries are related to the abuse of alcohol.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ One-third of all suicides and one-third of all mental health disorders are estimated to be associated with serious alcohol abuse.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ Clearly, alcohol has had a devastating effect on society in general and millions of unfortunate families in particular.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ Consequently, it is not surprising that many people, Christian and non-Christian, take strong stands against alcohol.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ Many Christian denominations prohibit or discourage the use of alcohol altogether, and those which don't proscribe its use caution against drunkenness.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ This preponderance of evidence has been sufficient for many people to conclude that the use of alcohol is a sin.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ Despite the documented evidence of the damage alcohol has inflicted on society, some segments consider moderate use of alcohol to be completely acceptable while others consider any use of alcohol whatsoever to be sinful.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ On the negative side, there are 17 warnings against abusing alcohol, 19 examples of people abusing alcohol, 3 references to selecting leaders, and one verse advocating abstinence if drinking will cause a brother to stumble.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ All but one of the 40 negative references to alcohol in the Bible concern the abuse of alcohol.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ There are 17 warnings against abusing alcohol, 19 examples of people abusing alcohol, and three guidelines for selecting leaders.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ Some maintain that alcohol is causing much more damage to modern society than ever before, that technology has allowed the effects of alcohol to become vastly more destructive than in Biblical times.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ Where is the evidence that shows that a smaller percentage of the population abused alcohol in Biblical times?
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ We must admit that the converse of our axiom is also true: if something is a sin now, it was a sin in Jerusalem 30 AD Since the Bible doesn't suggest that all use of alcohol was a sin during Biblical times, how can it be now?
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ However, due to the biblical concerns regarding alcohol and its effects, due to the easy temptation to consume alcohol in excess, and due to the possibility of causing offense and/or stumbling of others, it is usually best for a Christian to abstain entirely from drinking alcohol.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ And satan loves it when you drink alcohol and use drugs because he knows that with your inhibitions lowered and your judgment gone, you will sin and get into things that you would have avoided had you not been intoxicated.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ Easy access to cheap alcohol sharpens the warnings of the Bible and makes them much more difficult to take other than seriously today.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ If any think to consume alcohol today, my counsel would therefore be not to do so, but if you do, do so privately and with heavy restrictions upon yourself, based on your own temperament and physiology -- not because the Bible has changed, but because social factors have changed that the Bible's writers could not have envisioned.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ This use of alcohol resulted in incest and the formation of a nation that caused Israel many problems.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ It should be stressed in the midst of these major references, there are other references to alcohol being used in offerings.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ When Samson was dedicated to the Lord, he was not to drink alcohol.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ 91% of alcohol consumed by the human body is processed by the liver which has no mechanism for handling it
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ Alcohol affects the brain (loss of memory and brain injury), the muscles (loss of muscle tissue), the heart (high blood pressure), the lungs (increases the likelihood of infection), the stomach (ulcers), the intestines (ulcers), the nervous system (tingling and loss of sensation in the hands and feet), the skin (flushing, sweating, and bruising), the liver (severe swelling and pain, hepatitis, and cirrhosis), the pancreas (pains), the testicles of men (shrinking), and increases the risk of foetal damage to pregnant women.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ In fact alcohol is actually a depressant.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ Too many missionaries have been sent back home as alcoholics from cultures where drinking was integral to the culture, after having been told that alcohol was amoral and only subject to cultural context.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ After the introduction of distilled spirits with their much higher alcohol content (up to eight times higher than wine) in the Middle Ages, the problems caused by alcohol increased significantly.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ Today, alcohol abuse has caused catastrophic problems and brought suffering to millions of people worldwide.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ The Nazirite vow included abstinence from alcohol.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ Daniel made a personal choice to abstain from drinking alcohol.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ John the Baptist abstained from drinking alcohol.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ The problem, as I see it, is this: People who regularly drink alcohol as a lifesyle choice too often "fall off the wagon." (I did not say everyone who drinks a glass of wine falls off the wagon--but there are dangerous tendencies for those who regularly drink to have problems related to alchohol.) The influence of others can also be problematic.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ Finally, my perspective is this: If your ultimate goal is to glorify God, all things considered, the best choice may be not to drink alcohol.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ I wonder if those who are so open to drinking alcohol have ever had to sit with a four year old child to tell them daddy would not be coming home that night because he had been killed by a drunk driver or deal with a family whose lives had been destroyed because dad or mom took a couple of drinks or prayed for the physical healing of a mother because she had been beaten by a husband who was a social drinker.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ As a Pastor, I have and is why I appreciate this stance on alcohol.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ The only full proof method of not becoming addicted to alcohol is to not take the first drink.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ Alcohol has no nutritional value and can actually aggravate some medical conditions.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ The only purpose I can see for drinking alcohol is to use a drug to artificially change your mood and demeanor.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ I am not talking about getting drunk, even if this is a form of abusing alcohol, but I am thinking of those alcoholics who can't leave a day without some grades in their veins.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ Ultimately alcohol is a killer, causing many deaths and suffering in many different ways, yet it is allowed to thrive unchallenged, and by most people who take it never seen as something bad.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ I was once admitted to an alcohol treatment rehab but a preacher visited one day and reminded me about the word of God which has helped me understand all of this.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ When I was sixteen years old, I received the tragic news that a certain member of my family, to whom I was very close, was dying of alcohol-induced liver cancer.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ However, when I saw what years of drinking had done to my above mentioned relative, my decision never to touch alcohol was set in stone.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ He sees the jobs lost, the families shattered, and the lives destroyed by alcohol, and He wants to protect us from these things.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ He has a plan for your life that is far greater than any bottle of alcohol could ever possibly give.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ I would put it this way - the camaraderie and fellowship of drinking becomes the goal - a goal that is thought to be lessened without the presence of alcohol in the mix.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ There is a reason for this - alcohol is a drug (so, by the way, is caffeine and my 5 cups a day should tell you I am not "drug free"), a drug that enhances enjoyment of companionship and loosens inhibitions.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ For me, I abused alcohol in college and have a parent that drank heavily a good portion of my life.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ Former alcoholics know that alcohol abuse can damage and destroy people, even innocent bystanders.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ Should Christian missionaries drink in an Islamic culture where alcohol is forbidden?
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ On a Native American reservation where alcohol abuse is destroying the culture?
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ Are churches wrong to prohibit alcohol on the church campus?
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ The Bible contains lots of warnings about how tempting and dangerous it is to get involved with alcohol.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ Alcohol can easily seduce you, and before you know it, it controls you.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ I heard one preacher say that alcohol and drugs were given by God for the unregenerate man to find some form of peace.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ When you have no fear, guilt, or judgment (caused by false beliefs you were brainwashed with by society); and when you follow God's good advice in the Bible, then you will feel free and peaceful inside of yourself and will have no need or desire to smoke marijuana or drink alcohol or take any kind of drug.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ Therefore everyone should watch out not to let alcohol or marijuana, or sex or whatever else, to get them out of their good path.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ But while others don't have such an addiction or are not tempted along those lines, yet their free exercise of their right to partake of alcohol may lead those who are weak into temptation and into addiction.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ I do not believe anyone starts out to become an alcoholic, but it does not take long for most people to start to have problems with alcohol.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ Then, too, even a glass once in awhile can start to build an ethyl alcohol addiction in our bodies.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ Unfortunately, moderation has led over 18 + million Americans [U.S.A.] to become immoderate drinkers, because alcohol is a habit-forming narcotic which weakens ones capacity for self-control."
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ This means that more than 61+ million Americans are affected by some alcohol-related problems such as retarded children (Fetal Alcohol Syndrome), divorce, and violence in the home, crime, sickness and death.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ I have to say, No thank you, often when I am at a wedding or at a place where they are drinking alcohol, but it has always been a good testimony when I kindly say, No thanks.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ The term alcoholism was first used by Magnus Huss and may be defined as any change in the condition of the body or in its physical or mental activities caused by ethyl alcohol or alcoholic beverages.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ It is the ethyl alcohol in beer, whiskey, and other liquors that causes intoxication.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ It is ethyl alcohol that cause addiction.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ The double solubility of alcohol in water and fat enables it to invade the nerve cell.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ The primary alcoholic can be attracted to alcohol from the first drink and keep right on drinking until he is a slave to it.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ There are scientific reasons for this, no one thinks that they will be an alcoholic or have problems with alcohol when they start experimenting with alcohol, but ethyl alcohol is very addictive.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ Ethyl alcohol, when taken into the body, goes almost immediately into the bloodstream and up to the brain.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ The anesthetic effect of alcohol slows mans reactions measurable.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ Until recently it was assumed that the deleterious or harmful effects of alcohol were largely due to nutritional deficiencies.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ During the past several years, however, it has become clear that alcohol itself is a toxin to many body organs and that proper and adequate nutrition does not protect the drinking individual from the effects of alcohol
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ The Alcoholism Report published in December of 1983 made this startling comment in reviewing the Consumers Federation of Americas report: Alcohol was third, behind automobiles and cigarettes in the top ten most hazardous of consumer products.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ Medical researchers have directly linked heavy consumption of alcohol to heart disease, hepatitis, cirrhosis of the liver, and to cancer of the mouth, esophagus, larynx, liver and other organs.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ Even small amounts of alcohol during pregnancy can be detrimental to the unborn baby.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ Alcohol consumption during pregnancy can also cause physical and mental birth defects.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ In addition, alcohol is a major factor in crime.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ Eighty six percent of homicides involve alcohol.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ Getting alcohol is no problem for most youngsters.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ Mothers and fathers are often so concerned about marijuana, cocaine, and other drugs that they are almost relieved to learn that their children are only dabbling with alcohol.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ They may not realize that alcohol is also a drug, with the potential to destroy the lives of the unwary, and in a number of ways is more dangerous than the drugs every parent fears.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ We often fail to consider that the effect of alcohol on an individual has a direct relationship to his body weight.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ There is mounting evidence that people who start drinking early are more likely to become alcohol dependent, Hingson and his team note in the July issue of the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ The researchers found that 47 percent of people who had started drinking before age 14 met criteria for alcohol dependence within 10 years (God is for the alcoholic)
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ Other effects of binge drinking include unwanted pregnancy, feeling bad about yourself afterwards (such as shame or embarrassment), feeling vulnerable and out of control while intoxicated, losing friends or loved ones as a result of your behavior, loss of valuable items such as a car after a smash or personal items such as jeweler, or financial losses through reckless spending on alcohol or having to have time off work to recover from a binge.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ Schools that try to control alcohol in the dorms have been forced to set up security guards in an attempt to keep it out.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ Their purpose is to cloak their product with some semblance of respectability and to foster the notion that successful social occasions call for alcohol.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ No one thinks he will become a slave to alcohol.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ The dependent drinker turns to beverage alcohol when things start to build up; when the problems he faces get to be too great for him.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ The disappointments and frustrations dont seem so great under the temporary glow produced by alcohol.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ But we must always keep our attention focused on this one fact: the most important thing we can do for the alcohol addict is to speak to him her of Christ at the earliest possible moment.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ Some pastors solve the problem by forming a team of concerned men within the church to work with the individual alcohol addict and help him out of alcoholism" (God is for the Alcoholic Jerry Dunn with Bernard Palmer)
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ And the Bible hints that alcohol consumption impairs judgment and so should not be consumed by those in leadership positions, lest it affect their ability to rule:
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ I have a cousin, a mother of three, who the Lord recently saved and delivered at the age of 49 from a decades-long alcohol addiction.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ Your cousin and others like her would have found some substance, be it alcohol, drugs or even food to abuse.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ Others who oppose any use of alcohol do so with the idea of "building a hedge around the scriptures," making sure people don't accidentally violate scripture by getting too close to the edge.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ Abstentionists and prohibitionists are sometimes lumped together as "teetotalers" (compare list of teetotalers) and share some similar arguments for their positions, but the distinction between them is that the latter abstain from alcohol as a matter of law (that is, they believe God requires abstinence in all ordinary circumstances), while the former abstain as a matter of prudence (that is, they believe total abstinence is the wisest and most loving way to live in the present circumstances).^5
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ The Bible warns that alcohol can hinder moral discretion.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ Over 50% of 8th graders and 8 out of 10 12th graders report having tried alcohol.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ Even young teens report irresponsible use of alcohol -- 25% of 8th graders have been drunk.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ But even with declines in alcohol use, two of three American adults drink alcoholic beverages.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyAlcohol @ About half of all alcohol consumed in this country is ingested by heavy drinkers, estimated to be between 6.5 and 10 percent of the total population.