[roamer_1]

So, no, I do not and nd never will in this life come to believe that Jesus made alcoholic beverage for the Cana wedding. But thanks for offering your provocative, but unwarranted, presumptuous, and gratuitous opinion on the meaning of this passage, so that it can be contested out in the open forum.

WOW, d00d... Your provided translation is so very bent...

Of course he made wine... and drank wine. The only time that there could be grape juice is for a wee time in the fall... A matter of a couple weeks when grape juice was even possible... There was no means to preserve grape juice other than to make it into wine. Would it bother you to find out that YHWH commands bringing out the hard liquor (brandy) on the Great Eighth Day (the day after the week of the Feast of Tabernacles)? Not to spare it (liberal use)... specifically to PARTAY?

There ain't nothing wrong with having a beer or two once in a while and getting a little buzz on. There's nothing wrong with hauling out the champagne on special occasions. It's being a drunkard that is commanded against.

[imardmd1]

Thanks for your insights, but I see you haven’t studied Bible wines, wine-making, or preservation of grape syrup as practiced in Bible days. The Scriptures have a lot of things to say about wine consumption and abstinence from it. Maybe doing some study in that area would give a little depth to your understanding of those topics.

And how would you be able to judge whether the interpretation I gave was bent or not? Perhaps you liked the translation another poster gave that mine addressed?