Those rejecting the new testament and seek to live under the old testament have the tendency to use old testament scriptures to validate drinking the booze getting drunk. Bottoms up!
If you look a little harder you can validate all forms of intoxication using old testament scriptures which are not applicable to born again believers in the new testament.
Just an example.
You could almost call Judaism and Christianity a drinking religion. When a drinking culture tells you not to be drunk or be a drunkard, it means something different than what most people understand.
Christ drank and drank with others.
Drinking wine was part of a very important Christian ritual.
One of Christ miracles was changing water into fine wine.
Christ used vineyards in his parables.
Paul told Timothy to drink wine on his travels for a very good reason…As you traveled back then each well had it own flora animal decaying in it….bird dropping….bugs….etc. Mixing water with wine helped neutralize the contaminates in the water.
Christianity built several symbologies from the wine, the grapes, the grapevines etc.
If I said that Christ embraced all aspects of the vineyards and wine it would be hard to disprove, because He used vineyards and wine to explain the meanings of Christianity and used wine as a center piece to propose the New Covenant.
Once actual Christian churches started to appear they had vineyards and winepress on the property and clergy skilled with the art of viticulture.
The belief that people back then were drinking grape juice is in error, unless they were drinking it from the press….and all presses were called winepresses and grape juice does not last in the summer….Try it....let grape juice sit in the heat for a couple days and drink it....and see what it does to you....it will remove all doubt that grape juice was a common drink. No refrigeration AHHH!