Can you drink alcohol and still be right with God? Yes, you can.

The bible says the average person can drink. He does seem to discourage really strong drinks. But his issue is, being a drunkard. Don't drink so much that you loose yourself completely. Don't live in the bottle.
The ones he really has issues with is people of Authority. People who are in charge of making decisions. Those are the ones he really has a problem with drinking. He wants them to have a sober and clear mind at all times.
Kings and Princes, Priests and Prophets were all Men of authority in the bible days, and they would be equivalent to all our Government leaders, and Church leaders.


Proverbs 31:4-7 (King James Version)
4 It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong drink:

Ecclesiastes 10:17 (King James Version)
17 Blessed art thou, O land, when thy king is the son of nobles, and thy princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!

Proverbs 31:5
5 Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted.

Hosea 4:11 (King James Version)
11 Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.

Isaiah 28:7 (King James Version)
7 But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.

Proverbs 20:1 (King James Version)
1 Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.

Isaiah 56:10-12 (King James Version)
10 His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.

11 Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter.

12 Come ye, say they, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and to morrow shall be as this day, and much more abundant.

Proverbs 31:6
6 Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts.

Psalm 104:15 (King James Version)
15 And wine that maketh glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face to shine, and bread which strengtheneth man's heart.

Judges 9:13 (King James Version)
13 And the vine said unto them, Should I leave my wine, which cheereth God and man, and go to be promoted over the trees?

Proverbs 31:7
7 Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.

1 Corinthians 5:11 (King James Version)
11 But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolator, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.

Matthew 18:17 (King James Version)
17 And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the church: but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican.

Romans 16:17 (King James Version)
17 Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.

1 Corinthians 11:21 (King James Version)
21 For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper: and one is hungry, and another is drunken.

1 Thessalonians 5:6-7 (King James Version)
6 Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
7 For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.

Luke 21:34 (King James Version)
34 And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.

Acts 2:15 (King James Version)
15 For these are not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day.

Romans 13:13 (King James Version)
13 Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.

THE LAKE OF FIRE!!! Do you dare watch?

Study of the 10 Commandments

Exodus 20:1-26 (King James Version)

Exodus 20

¹ And God spake all these words, saying,

² I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

³ Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

⁴ Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.

⁵ Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;

⁶ And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.

⁷ Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.

⁸ Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.

⁹ Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:

¹⁰ But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:

¹¹ For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.

¹² Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

¹³ Thou shalt not kill.

¹⁴ Thou shalt not commit adultery.

¹⁵ Thou shalt not steal.

¹⁶ Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

¹⁷ Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.

¹⁸ And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw it, they removed, and stood afar off.

¹⁹ And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear: but let not God speak with us, lest we die.

²⁰ And Moses said unto the people, Fear not: for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not.

²¹ And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was.

²² And the LORD said unto Moses, Thus thou shalt say unto the children of Israel, Ye have seen that I have talked with you from heaven.

²³ Ye shall not make with me gods of silver, neither shall ye make unto you gods of gold.

²⁴ An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt offerings, and thy peace offerings, thy sheep, and thine oxen: in all places where I record my name I will come unto thee, and I will bless thee.

²⁵ And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it.

²⁶ Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon.

Not quite a year later but close enough

I haven't posted in a while. But nothing has changed much, my daughter is more like a teenager then ever before, and boy what a handful she is. She has given me a summer full of issues which I wont list here since this is an open forum. But kids are kids, and Moms are Moms. I can't wait until she gets through this ornery stage. It won't come a day too soon.