1. According to Proverbs 20:1, what is wine (or alcohol)?
2. In the New Testament, the Greek word for wine (oinos) can refer to two different types of “wine.” What are those two types?
3. What does Ephesians 5:18 teach?
4. What is the thrust of 1 Peter 5:8 in regard to using alcohol as a beverage?
5. Why did Paul have to command Timothy “take a little wine” for his stomach’s sake (1 Tim. 5:23)?
6. According to Paul’s comments in 1 Corinthians 6:9-10, what fate awaits those who engage in drunkenness?
7. Explain the impact of Proverbs 23:29-35 on the drinking of alcohol as a beverage.
8. How does the use of beverage alcohol factor into a Christian’s example to those people around him (especially non-Christians)?
9. What would be wrong with drinking in the privacy of your own home, even assuming that you never got drunk?
10. What might happen to young, immature Christians if they were to see older, more mature Christians using beverage alcohol in their lives?
11. How might the drinking of beverage alcohol lower or weaken our moral standards?
12. Give two scriptural reasons why we know that Jesus did not turn water into alcoholic wine at the time of His first miracle in Cana of Galilee.
13. How does Isaiah 28:7 factor in to the concept that beverage alcohol can cause a person to lose touch with reality?
14. What does Proverbs 23:33 say will happen to people who drink beverage alcohol?
15. Why, in Leviticus 10:9-10, did God tell the sons of Aaron not to drink intoxicating beverages?
16. Proverbs 31:4-5 says that it is not wise for a king to use beverage alcohol. What does that tell us?
17. In Genesis 9:20-26 we learn that Noah was seen naked by one of his three sons. What caused this event to occur?
18. In Genesis 19:30-35 we learn that Lot had an illicit sexual relationship with his daughters. What caused this event to occur?
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