[conculture] Digest Number 360

conculture@egroups.com writes:
> My current
>favorite are the logical contortions non-alcohol drinking people
>will go through to prove that all the references to wine in the Bible
>are in fact references to grape juice.
In my experience, it has been protestants of the evangelical sort that
consider refereneces to wine as really meaning grape juice. Some have told
me that Catholics are bad because wine is allowed at communion, and that
Jesus never drank wine (note, these are very extreme people, who I dont
waste my time with). I'm pretty sure the Greeks, Romans, and Hebrews had
different words for wine and grape juice, and that it would be very hard
to mistranslate something like that ;).

Question: What is "new wine"? I've never been able to figure it out.




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