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Sweet Soberness!
> SWEET SOBERNESS! (1/3)
Reply to a message by a Curious Questioner-- Subject: (3) Be sober!
>>RC> (Unlike cane sugar, grape-sugar does not need to go through any conversion process in the body to gain the healthful benefit, and was a common cure for stomach problems in those days.)
>CQ> Care to give a SCIENTIFIC or MEDICAL reference to this statement?See scientific references: Isa.43:24; Luke 10:34; 1Tim.5:23, etc.
Around 170 A.D., Galen, (considered the foremost medical authority of the ancient world), recommended "sakcharon from India and Araby" for the STOMACH, intestines, and kidneys. (Collier,V.21,p.606)
There are several hundred different forms of sugar found in nature. Common table sugar is sucrose, which is a combination of glucose (dextrose - right-handed sugar) and fructose (levulose - left-handed sugar). Your body prefers the right-handed variety, so the carbohydrates in your food goes through a conversion process to convert it to glucose (blood-sugar), which in turn is distributed throughout your body, where it is combined with oxygen (oxidized, i.e. burned) to produce energy, with the by-products of water and carbon-dioxide, which you breathe out.
Levulose (left-handed) is the form of sugar helpful to diabetics. (Didn't you learn this already in Grade school? :)
Grape juice also has vitamin-G! (Neato! Nifty-keen! :)
"Fruits differ from practically all other foods by the fact that their nutritive elements exist in the soluble forms of organic sugar, dextrin and fruit acids, which are found almost exclusively in their juices." - "The almost immediate effects experienced by a fatigued person after taking pure fruit juice is due to the nutritious energy released by its fruit sugar content, almost instantaneously utilized by the body." (About Raw Juices, p.16,17) (Read 1Sam.30:12! raisins are found in clusters too! :)
Grape vines are Dextrorse (right-rotating) vines, and crystalline glucose is a dextrorotatory (right-rotating) sugar. The Lord Jesus is called the true vine, and also the right hand of God.
(BTW: The tree of the knowledge of good and evil is thought to be a "vine tree" by well-read Bible students. But wouldn't you rather stick with the sincere "lactose/milk-sugar" of the word? :)
Timothy was told to -USE- a -LITTLE- wine for his stomach's sake and the associated infirmities. (Grape juice in larger quantities tends to get the juices flowing too quickly, so be near an outhouse. :)
Use a LITTLE Honey with lemon juice for an overworked throat.
"It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search their own glory is not glory." (Prov.25:27)
> SWEET SOBERNESS! (2/3)
>>RC> "Nature does NOT form spirituous liquors, but rots the grape upon the branch." As long as the "skin" of the grape is not broken, there is no way that it can become alcoholic in nature.
>CQ> Hardly. Yeasts are small enough to penetrate said grape. Its not the skin that is the problem it is the point where the branch laches onto the grape.The new wine which is found in the cluster is non-alcoholic. Even the "must" that naturally exudes from ripe grapes is non-alcoholic.
>CQ> Plus, If you can, without utilizing modern chemical knowledge or equipment make grape juice and keep it for one month unrefrigerated free from fermentation I might consider believeing you.If you don't believe the word of God, why would you believe anyone? Men have known how to keep grape juice fresh for thousands of years. The grape juice found stored at Masada was just as sweet and fresh as the day the provisions were laid in about a hundred years before.
>CQ> But considering that I have tried, and I can't make it happen, I don't see as how some grape grower 2000 years ago could pull it off.Professor Donovan, in "Domestic Economy", mentions three methods, used by the ancients, by which all fermentation can be prevented:
- "1. Grape-juice will not ferment when the air is completely excluded.
- "2. By boiling down the juice, or, in other words, evaporating the water, the substance becomes a syrup, which if very thick will not ferment.
- "3. If the juice be filtered and deprived of its gluten, or ferment, the production of alcohol will be impossible." (Anti-Bacchus, p.162)
"The ancients had a motive for boiling the unfermented juice. They knew from experience that the juice, by reason of the heat of the climate and the sweetness of the grapes, would speedily turn sour. To preserve it sweet, they naturally resorted to the simple and easy method of boiling. The art of distillation was then unknown; it was not discovered till the ninth century." (--Bible Wines, p.29)
>CQ> The skin of a grape is not a sterile container.Neither is your mouth.
"And be not drunk with wine wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit; Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord." (Eph.5:18,19)
> SWEET SOBERNESS! (3/3)
>CQ> It may interest you to know, Richard, that there is a blessing spoken by Jews, carried down from the beginning of Judaism, which is spoken whenever wine (fermented grape juice) which is "Blessed art Thou, O Lord God of the Universe, who brings forth fruit from the vine."The corruption, Friend, of fermentation converting grape juice into poisonous alcoholic wine could hardly be considered a blessing. The Lord makes the pure juice of the grape which is a blessing, but your alcoholic wine has cursed many people through the ages.
"Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is NOT wise." (Prov.20:1)
>CQ> Jews have always drunk alcoholic wine at Passover, during their shabbat meal, and at all other religious occasions, as well as at other times.Drunkards shall not inherit the kingdom of God. Of the many places in the Bible speaking of the passover, not once is drinking of any kind of wine (alcoholic or non-alcoholic) ever mentioned. There are hundreds of passages in the Bible condemning the Jews for their religious abominations and spiritual whoredom. Be not like unto them.
>CQ> Jesus was a Jew,He was, in the flesh, a Jew. (but see 2Cor.5:16)
>CQ> and He did drink alcoholic wine,NO MENTION in the Bible of him ever committing that sin. Show me one place that clearly mentions ANYTHING that he drank, besides the vinegar that he received on the cross as he was dying under the burden of your sins. Jesus himself "did no sin." Be not deceived.
>CQ> , as well as turn water into alcoholic wine--His first miracle was just that.Not true at all. The vines of the earth draw up water and convert it into the pure blood of the grape, which is non-alcoholic wine. Jesus is the true vine, and as such - converted water into new wine, not some stinking alcoholic corruption of wicked men.
"Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes? They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine. Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright." (Prov.23:29-31)
Not only is it wrong to drink it, you are not even supposed to "look" upon it. Remember that Jesus is the Lord and sober up! Grace be unto you for Jesus' sake. Amen. --Richard
(-17 Please see Sober Raccoons! next. Thanks. :)
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