Jesus was here

[Gore1FL]

[spin]

1. When you realize just how much water Jesus turned into wine at the marriage ....

you might understand that Jesus was not opposed to getting drunk occasionally.

[okasha]

2. Good one.

[edhopper]

3. This is one of those interpreted stories

Jesus regularly watered the vineyards, the grapes absorbed the water as they grew. Later when the grapes were crushed and fermented, the water within them turned to wine.
Of course this could not have happened with out God's intervention. Only explanation.

[cbayer]

4. Very funny!

[Brettongarcia]

5. Dionysiac/Bacchian influence on Christianity? Drinking wine is sacred. Maybe beer too.

Based on the water-to-wine episode, some scholars speculate that elements of the "Jesus Myth" were borrowed from the Greeks and Romans that occupied Jerusalem, c. 300 BC ff. And their worship of the "god" or "lord" who invented wine: Dionysius in Greece; Bacchus in Rome.

[okasha]

6. Jewish influence.

Jews had been drinking wine in celebrations and ceremonies for centuries before the Seleucid occupation. Wine and the vinyards that produced it were seen as a vital part of Yahweh's bessing on the land.

[Act_of_Reparation]

7. My knowledge of ancient Jewish libations is limited...

...but from what I understand of ancient Egyptian, Greek, Roman, and later European cultures, water was rarely consumed pure. Heavily dilute wine was far more common, both for its taste and resilience to stagnation.

If the same applied to Ancient Iudea, the whole water-into-wine story is less a matter of "OH TEH NOES! SOMEBODY MAKE A PACKIE RUN!", and more a matter of, "shit, there's literally nothing to drink."

[Brettongarcia]

8. Naturalizing religion:after a night of wine-drinking, water tastes like wine (from residue in mouth)

As I accidentally discovered one night