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Jesus making wine from water in The Marriage at Cana, a 14th-century fresco from the Visoki Dečani monastery. Christian views on alcohol are varied. Throughout the first 1,800 years of Church history, Christians generally consumed alcoholic beverages as a common part of everyday life and used "the fruit of the vine" [1] in their central rite—the Eucharist or Lord's Supper.
[9] [10] They held that both the Bible and Christian tradition taught that alcohol is a gift from God that makes life more joyous, but that over-indulgence leading to drunkenness is sinful or at least a vice. [11] [12] However, the attempt has often been made to prove that the wine referred to in the Bible was non-alcoholic.
Teetotalism is the practice of voluntarily abstaining from the consumption of alcohol, specifically in alcoholic drinks. A person who practices (and possibly advocates) teetotalism is called a teetotaler (US) or teetotaller (UK), or said to be teetotal .
Abstinence is the practice of self-enforced restraint from indulging in bodily activities that are widely experienced as giving pleasure.Most frequently, the term refers to sexual abstinence, but it can also mean abstinence from alcohol, drugs, food, or other comforts.
Removing alcohol from your life for a short period of time can help you assess your drinking habits and identify potential problems, especially if you’re concerned about something like binge ...
The surgeon general's recent warning that alcohol can cause cancer reiterated for a lot of people something they already (begrudgingly) knew: Drinking is not good for you. The proportion of ...
The Doctrine of Concomitance has been used to justify communion under one kind of species, saying that the Christ is fully present in each species alone. [2] Further application allows those who are allergic to gluten, are alcoholics, or otherwise wish to abstain from alcohol consumption to receive one species alone with the assurance of the fullness of the sacrament.
Frequency of alcohol consumption rose by 14 percent for adults 30 and older during the early months of the pandemic, according to a study published in September 2020 in JAMA Network Open. The ...