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Interesting. I debated this topic at least weekly while I attended a Private University. I respect your thoughts... and here's mine.
Jesus did turn water into wine and there have been many people who have debated on whether or not it was just regular grape juice (fruit of the vine translation) or alcoholic (fermented translation). These are both debatable. What is not debatable is the fact that drunkenness IS a sin and drunkards will not inherit the Kingdom of God. This is made clearly in the Bible in several books (Galatians 5:19 is one of them).
19The acts of the sinful nature are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; 20idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions 21and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.
The Old and New Testament both state that "priests should not take in wine or strong drink." It's interesting that they used 2 separate descriptions of the subject. If this is true, and Jesus is our "High Priest" as referred to several time in the Bible, then did he really turn harmless water into alcohol? Just something to think about.
This clearly states that drunkenness is a sin. So what about drinking in moderation?
If this were the case, then this is the grayest subject in the Bible. What is moderation? Did God really give us the power to define a sin by allowing us to conclude what moderation is?
For some, drunk is 15 beers. For some, drunk is 2 beers. Does that mean that 2 beers is a sin for some and not for others? What is drunk? Does buzzing count?
The Bible also teaches us to judge everything we partake in by the fruit that it produces. Take into account all of the death, destruction and division that alcohol has caused in families, marriages and lives and I have to ask myself one question: Why would I want even an ounce of that in my body? That’s not very good fruit.
Here’s some fruit to help judge:
· More than 100,000 U.S. deaths are caused by excessive alcohol consumption each year. Direct and indirect causes of death include drunk driving, cirrhosis of the liver, falls, cancer, and stroke.1
· At least once a year, the guidelines for low risk drinking are exceeded by an estimated 74% of male drinkers and 72% of female drinkers aged 21 and older.2
· 65% of youth surveyed said that they got the alcohol they drink from family and friends.7
· Nearly 14 million Americans meet diagnostic criteria for alcohol use disorders.5
· Youth who drink alcohol are 50 times more likely to use cocaine than those who never drink alcohol.3
· Among current adult drinkers, more than half say they have a blood relative who is or was an alcoholic or problem drinker.1
· Across people of all ages, males are four times as likely as females to be heavy drinkers.1
· More than 18% of Americans experience alcohol abuse or alcohol dependence at some time in their lives.6
· Traffic crashes are the greatest single cause of death for persons aged 6–33. About 45% of these fatalities are in alcohol-related crashes.4
· Underage drinking costs the United States more than $58 billion every year — enough to buy every public school student a state-of-the-art computer.2
· Alcohol is the most commonly used drug among young people.1
· Problem drinkers average four times as many days in the hospital as nondrinkers — mostly because of drinking-related injuries.1
· Alcohol kills 6½ times more youth than all other illicit drugs combined.2
· Concerning the past 30 days, 50% of high school seniors report drinking, with 32% report being drunk at least once.2
You think stats exist like this for the subject of obesity? Not even close, and 99% of the time, obesity only effects the individual… it doesn’t kill the people they run into.
U.S. College students spend 66 billion dollars a year in alcohol, 60% of all high school students get drunk before the time they graduate, 8% of the 60% become alcohol dependent for LIFE, only 12% of all alcohol consumers drink leisurely and are considered “sober drinkers.” If a Christian is arguing that drinking is ok as long as you don’t get “drunk,” then they are only standing up for 12% of the drinking population.
Yes, we should let the focus of our Christian walks be to grow in Christ and follow him with a reckless abandon, but could it be possible that things such as alcohol have put us into an invisible vice? I’ll never say that drinking alcohol is a sin or leads you to hell. I will say to do some research and make a wise decision. If alcohol is such a taboo topic in the world of believers, then why entertain it?
Lastly, The Bible tells us to do things that are wise, even if the outcome may not be considered a sin. After researching the Bible and life statistics, drinking alcohol just doesn’t seem very wise.
~TRADITION VERSION:
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.
Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed. The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.
Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be warm and well fed while others are cold and starving.
CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food.
The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing up the last bits of the ant's food while the government house he is in, which just happens to be the ant's old house, crumbles around him because he doesn't maintain it.
The ant has disappeared in the snow. The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the once peaceful neighborhood.
MORAL OF THE STORY: Be careful how you vote in 2008.
I just spent an hour filling out the Survivor application and answering all of it's non-sense questions that it had for me! I'll shoot the video tomorrow and send it in VIA OVERNIGHT since it is due July 15th!Fox News:
"McCain called the decision “an assault on law enforcement’s efforts to punish these heinous felons for the most despicable crime.”
The court’s 5-4 decision Wednesday struck down a Louisiana law that allows capital punishment for people convicted of raping children under 12, saying it violates the Constitution’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
The ruling spares the only people in the U.S. under sentence of death for that crime — two Louisiana men convicted of raping girls 5 and 8. It also invalidates laws on the books in five other states that allowed executions for child rape that does not result in the death of the victim.
Obama said that had the court “said we want to constrain the abilities of states to do this to make sure that it’s done in a careful and appropriate way, that would have been one thing. But it basically had a blanket prohibition and I disagree with that decision.”
Obama has long supported the death penalty while criticizing the way it is sometimes applied.
As an Illinois legislator, he helped rewrite the state’s death penalty system to guard against innocent people being sentenced to die. The new safeguards included requiring police to videotape interrogations and giving the state Supreme Court more power to overturn unjust decisions.
He also opposed legislation making it easier to impose the death penalty for murders committed as part of gang activity. Obama argued the language was too vague and could be abused by authorities.
But Obama has never rejected the death penalty entirely. He supported death sentences for killing volunteers in community policing programs and for particularly cruel murders of elderly people.
“While the evidence tells me that the death penalty does little to deter crime, I believe there are some crimes — mass murder, the rape and murder of a child — so heinous, so beyond the pale, that the community is justified in expressing the full measure of its outrage by meting out the ultimate punishment,” he wrote in his book “The Audacity of Hope.”"











In 1986, Peter Davies was on holiday in
On a hike through the bush, he came across a young bull elephant standing with one leg raised in the air. The elephant seemed distressed, so Peter approached it very carefully.
He got down on one knee and inspected the elephant's foot and found a large piece of wood deeply embedded in it. As carefully and as gently as he could, Peter worked the wood out with his hunting knife, after which the elephant gingerly put down its foot. The elephant turned to face the man, and
with a rather curious look on its face, stared at him for several tense moments. Peter stood frozen, thinking of nothing else but being trampled. Eventually the elephant trumpeted loudly, turned, and walked away. Peter never forgot that elephant or the events of that day.
Twenty years later, Peter was walking through the Chicago Zoo with his teenaged son. As they approached the elephant enclosure, one of the creatures turned and walked over to near where Peter and his son Cameron were standing. The large bull elephant stared at Peter, lifted its front foot off the ground, then put it down. The elephant did that several times then trumpeted loudly, all the while staring at the man.
Remembering the encounter in 1986, Peter couldn't help wondering if this was the same elephant. Peter summoned up his courage, climbed over the railing and made his way into the enclosure. He walked right up to the elephant and stared back in wonder. The elephant trumpeted again, wrapped its trunk around one of Peter legs and slammed his stupid butt against the railing, killing him instantly.
Probably wasn't the same elephant.
This is for all of my friends who send me those heart-warming stories!
FARM KID
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Dear Ma and Pa,
I am well. Hope you are. Tell Brother Walt and Brother Elmer the Marine Corps beats working for old man
I was restless at first because you got to stay in bed till nearly 6 a.m. But I am getting so I like to sleep late. Tell Walt and Elmer all you do before breakfast is smooth your cot, and shine some things. No hogs to slop, feed to pitch, mash to mix, wood to split, fire to lay. Practically nothing.
Men got to shave but it is not so bad, there's warm water. Breakfast is strong on trimmings like fruit juice, cereal, eggs, bacon, etc., but kind of weak on chops, potatoes, ham, steak, fried eggplant, pie and other regular food, but tell Walt and Elmer you can always sit by the two city boys that live on coffee. Their food, plus yours, holds you until noon when you get fed again. It's no wonder these city boys can't walk much.
We go on "route marches," which the platoon sergeant says are long walks to harden us. If he thinks so, it's not my place to tell him different. A "route march" is about as far as to our mailbox at home. Then the city guys get sore feet and we all ride back in trucks.
The sergeant is like a school teacher. He nags a lot. The Captain is like the school board. Majors and colonels just ride around and frown. They don't bother you none.
This next will kill Walt and Elmer with laughing. I keep getting medals for shooting. I don't know why. The bulls -eye is near as big as a chipmunk head and don't move, and it ain't shooting at you like the Higgett boys at home. All you got to do is lie there all comfortable and hit it. You don't even load your own cartridges They come in boxes.
Then we have what they call hand-to-hand combat training. You get to wrestle with them city boys. I have to be real careful though, they break real easy. It ain't like fighting with that ole bull at home. I'm about the best they got in this except for that Tug Jordan from over inSilver
Be sure to tell Walt and Elmer to hurry and join before other fellers get onto this setup and come stampeding in.
Your loving daughter,
Alice
It all fits in this bag.
Cleaning it out because about 50 people slept in this thing from college.
Taking it down.
Is this for real? Solar lights duct taped and jigga rigged to the sign?
