That was not wine. It's what we would call grape juice.
"It's what we would call grape juice."
I read a book by a Biblical scholar that said this but he was not totally convinced. Do you have a source for this?
I'm Baptist, and believe wine back then was indeed alcoholic not grape juice. And I don't know any Baptists who claime it was grape juice. But I have heard that it might have been a lower proof than wine is today.
Wine was one of the few safe drinks in those days. Today the emphasis is on using alcohol to lower inhibitions. It's not the same environment as back then.
As a Baptist, I don't believe drinking alcohol in moderation is wrong. But having grown up in Louisiana which has the highest per capita alcohol in the nation despite the northern half being dry when I was young, I decided I was better off without it.
How did they keep it from fermenting?
You may be right.
Mash up some grapes. Store in a jug in the corner.
Strain some and drink when company comes. It is grape juice the first day. After that, it is fermented grape juice, which is wine.
My neighbor makes his own every year. He thinks it is delicious.
Wishful thinking put into your head by some backwards, agenda-pushing, self-delusional preacher...
"Every man serves the good wine first, and, when men have drunk freely, then the poor wine; but you have kept the good wine until now."
John 2:10
Plain grape juice, even when drunk in quantity, would not addle the brain into thinking bad grape juice was palatable.
Grow up. Think (and read) for yourself. And stop parroting some fundie's rants disparaging our Lord's miracles -- just to push an agenda...
Before you accuse me of advocating drinking, know this: I do not drink -- or advocate drinking alcoholic beverages... I just despise those who twist the Word for their own purposes.