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Wwjd? Should We?

Many times I hear the statement, "What Would Jesus Do?". While I believe this is a good basis for every decision we make I must ask another question.

If WWJD is the only criteria that we use to examine our decisions are we truly doing everything correctly? As Christians the bible tells us to be as Christ like as possible yet we also know that we all fail at the attempt of actually being like Christ. I will set several examples for thought.

At a dinner party with your co-workers, should you have a glass of wine with your meal? In this instance did Jesus drink wine with his meal. Jesus provided wine through a miracle for a wedding party. Would Jesus provide wine for drinking if the simple act of drinking a glass of wine is against God? (This is a drink, not getting drunk)

Jesus also expressed deep anger towards those who sold animals in the temple. Jesus did this but could I do this as Jesus did? Can I anger in such a way that I am angry at the sin of a man but not at the man?

Food for thought: To do What Christ did doesn't mean to do as Christ did.

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I have heard before that the wine they drank (at that time) was more like pure grape juice-not fermented? Do you know if there is any truth to this? The reason I ask is because in my religion we abstain from alcoholic beverages all together. I do know some of my friends that will drink (a social or dinner) every so often and do not feel it is any problem and they are religious. IF it was NOT the same type of beverage--then was Christ really drinking alcohol?

I have always thought of that situation as "righteous anger"--the question you pose is interesting. I wonder if we, as humans, have the ability to separate the two. We are told to love the sinner--hate the sin; but how many can REALLY do that. I think we all try--but it seems before we get to the ability to love those who have sinned against us or others, we have already been angry. Does that make sense?

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Alcohol has been around since ... well ... since a long time. Dionysus as he was referred to in Greek mythology was the god of wine and chaos. While it was mythology, it was obvious that the secret of wine making you drunk and stupid if overconsumed was known to the world before the birth of Christ. So, it is pretty safe to say that the wine made back then did pack a punch if consumed in excess....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dionysus

The Catholic Religion has had no problem with wine...or...some may say the had a problem, but either way, wine consumption is permitted and it is interpretted that it is the over indulgence (drunkeness) that is frown upon by the Lord. It would be safe to say that those of the Catholic Religion believe that Jesus drank wine...with alcohol...as he shared it at the Last Supper.

Sure, note that he never harmed anyone in the display of anger. He just ran the animals off and flipped over some tables. Say you caught some kids dealing drugs outside the church. You ran off their customers, grabbed their drugs an threw it into the wind and broke their needles. Then you gave them a good lecture about being respectful in front of the house of the Lord.

If they ask for forgiveness and see the errors of their ways, do you give it to them...truly?

Now in the example, there are consequences that may be in play today that werent as prevalent back then or maybe the were. Today if you did that, most likely the guy that supplies the kids who drugs you just threw out might pay a visit and shoot up the church, so it might not be a good idea, but it was quite righteous.

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I think that partaking of alcohol with a meal is fine. It is when you drink in excess that it becomes a problem. IF you drink a glass of wine with dinner or drink a glass of beer to relax at home you are not hurting anyone and I do not believe that you are going to be punished in the afterlife for those drinks. Now if you drank in excess each night or a few nights a week and did some stupid stuff while you were drunk then I can see it as being a problem. A social drink should not be cause of alarm.

Trying hard to be good and viewing everything in the context of "what would Jesus do" is a way of life that can be extremely hard. We are tempted all the time. THe devil (satan, the evil god or whatever you call him) knows what our weaknesses are and his job is to cause us to stumble and fall to our knees at times. Can we always resist temptation and live the pure life? Most people cannot because the flesh is weak. That is why we pray to get forgiveness for our sins as we are sinners. All we can do is try to be strong and life our lives as well as we can.

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According to scripture the drinking of wine did leave you in a drunken state.

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Let me bring this Topic back to the original question.

I believe WWJD is not the "only" criteria, in fact it is not criterion for decisions in the first place. I will say that it is a last resort to decision making. One should already have the answers to make a decision and guess work only comes into play when you do not have the answers.

Sounds interesting eh? The deduction is simple. WWJD is a question. The answer is assumption and interpretation based on who is answering. In other words, the answer may not be true since we really do not know what Jesus would do. Here is a basic example:

"Should we steal?"

Do we really need to ask WWJD or do we already know the answer?

The question could be really "What did Jesus do?"

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That is a great point JB as we know Jesus did drink of the wine but did not drink into public drunkenness. We also know Public drunkenness is a sinful act.

Thus many churches teach do not consume alcohol as if you are of the nature it will consume you and you will be come one of a drunken nature. It is a cautionary that is wise in thought no more no less.

I like that JB "What did Jesus do?" I am going to give that one to my oldest. Second reason I like it as if you do not know it makes you go read the bible!

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I like both WWJD and WDJD. I can lead a life that I feel is sin free or mostly sin free but that still does not mean I lead life as christ would have. As a man I know it is hard for me to achieve perfection. Strive as I may to lead the good life and accept that I am flawed and asking myself, Would christ act this way or would Christ do this?, is a way for me to continue down a better path.