Scott’s Journey Home
So it turns out another friend went on The Journey Home! Scott Weeman was recently interviewed about his struggles with addiction and his faith journey:
"We are travellers…not yet in our native land" – St. Augustine
So it turns out another friend went on The Journey Home! Scott Weeman was recently interviewed about his struggles with addiction and his faith journey:
Today I also wanted to share the story from the website Made In His Image. It is a guest post from my friend Scott and describes his battle with alcohol: Hello my name is Scott – I’m an alcoholic.
Out of all the “Out there” beliefs I’ve looked at so far, this one is by far the biggest head-scratcher. It is the belief that the Bible prohibits the consumption of alcohol.
I was rather blind-sided when I first came across this belief, initially not knowing what to say because it is rather equivalent to hearing somebody say that the moon is made out of cheese.
Here is a statement I recently saw:
“The Bible says alcoholic drink is evil. It is not just the amount one drinks that makes drinking a sin. God condemns the drink itself: ‘Wine is a mocker and beer a brawler; whoever is led astray by them is not wise'”
– Proverbs 20:1
Huh. Well, firstly, that passage doesn’t condemn alcohol outright, it just states that those who are “led astray” by it are not wise. This is hardly shocking stuff – I’ve witnessed enough nonsense spoken through an excess of wine and enough pointless fights started through beer-induced stupidity to know this to be true.
However, aside from trying to make this passage say something it doesn’t, Scripture presents many other problems with such an assertion. When Paul told Timothy to take wine for his stomach, was he telling him to ingest something morally evil (1 Timothy 5:23)? Should deacons only “moderately” indulge in this immorality (1 Timothy 3:8)? When Jesus transformed water into wine did he lead everyone at the wedding into sin (John 2:1-11)?
Read more“Bibe Cervesium Non Aquam” (“Drink beer, not water”)
– St Arnoldus
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“In the last analysis, no love is ever driven out; it is only conquered by another love. One cannot overcome a love of alcohol until he finds some other love which is more compelling”
– Fulton Sheen, Guide to Contentment
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