The reasons why Christians should drink alcohol (if they desire) are: Jesus brewed alcoholic wine, Jesus Christ drank wine, and the apostle Paul commanded us to drink alcohol for health reasons.

Here are more thorough explanations of each:

Jesus Brewed Alcohol

The first biblical miracle performed by Jesus was making wine from water at the wedding reception in Cana of Galilee (John 2:1-11). This unknown story gets even better!

After Jesus had made these huge vats of wine miraculously, the wedding guests asked this question: "why is it that after we drank the other wine, you brought out the good stuff (John 2:10)?" This means not only did He make wine, He made a superior brand of it as well.

Here are a few things not to be missed: first, Jesus did so simply because He was asked and second, the jars used for this alcoholic beverage were for ‘purifying’ ceremonies (John 2:6).

Neither could have been a coincidence, at least not if the Lord God is sovereign over the universe (Psalm 103:19, Col. 1:16-17). True Christians not only understand this concept, we stand on it!

Prior to this, the Bible teaches that Jesus was in the wilderness for 40 days and 40 nights, being tempted by the devil (Matt. 4:1-11).

Satan asked, or at minimum suggested, that Jesus do something that was not God’s Holy Will while misusing the Word of God to tempt the Lord.

On each occasion, Jesus turned him down and corrected Satan.

The point is, if brewing an alcoholic beverage was a crime, why did Jesus do it upon the request of the wedding guests and not follow through on Satan’s requests?

Because neither their motives nor actions afterward (drinking alcohol) were evil. At any time, when requested to make wine, our Savior could have pushed back and instructed the wedding guests on the evils of either making alcohol or certainly drinking it.

However, He did not and on these facts, I invite ‘holy rollers’ as well as skeptical Christians to biblically respond.

Jesus Drank Alcohol

It cannot be disputed that not only did Jesus make alcoholic wine, and people got ‘merry’ consuming it, but at the Last Supper and certainly at meals He shared with others, the Lord of Glory drank alcohol (Matt. 26:27-29).

My mother, gone on to be with Jesus now, said something that shocked and surprised me. She and I were having the same back-and-forth debate and her perceived ‘evils of alcohol.’

Momma said the wine Jesus drank was just strong grape juice (non-alcoholic).

Of course, she offered no proof, only her belief that the Lord would never have tasted alcohol because it is sinful. Like her, religious people want others to be even holier than Jesus, as if that were possible.

That is what the entire assault on biblical behavior, such as consuming wine is about beloved: the 'appearance' of righteousness rather than being so (Isa. 29:13, Matt. 23:27-28).

This occurs in other areas of modernity as well.

For example, Jesus got angry, yet you and I are not supposed to get angry, they teach being jealous, itself, as sin when one of God’s names that He’s assigned Himself is Jealous (Mark 3:5, Exo. 34:14).

They further demand that Christians shouldn’t carry weapons or guns because Jesus told Peter to put away his sword (John 18:11). Wasn’t it Jesus Christ who told Peter to buy those same swords (Luke 22:36)?

Jesus did not have an issue with His disciples, now you and me, carrying weapons, only how and when we use them.

If Christians are true to scripture, our substituting grape juice for wine with respect to the sacrament of communion puts us in transgression of holiness and not drinking wine (Mark 14:23-25, Luke 22:17-18).

Furthermore, Jesus admitted drinking wine that John the Baptist refused to (Luke 7:33-34)!

If Jesus passed a cup full of wine around to His disciples, even if we are just supposed to drink it at communion—not that I believe that—why shouldn’t we drink alcohol?

Were this is a treatise on alcohol in general, such as bourbons and other types of alcohol that are not wine, that is a discussion for another day. I am talking about alcohol itself, which wine surely is.

The Apostle Paul Said Alcohol is Healthy

Paul, the apostle to the Gentiles, even got in on the teaching that drinking alcoholic wine was not a bad thing! In 1 Timothy 5:23, he instructs; “Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach’s sake and thine often infirmities.”

Paul, throughout the thirteen (13) epistles in the New Testament canon, called sin out yet, in this instance, he suggests to another church leader (Timothy) it is ok?

This fails to mention another instance where he taught only if drinking alcohol stumbles another should it be avoided (Rom. 14:21).

Furthermore, and here is where confusion, especially among church leaders, comes into the picture: in 1 Timothy 3:1-7, Paul outlines a number of qualifications for someone to be a church leader, which (locally anyway) are bishops/pastors.

Among the listed qualifications, as well as for a church deacon, is that they not be given to ‘much’ alcohol (1 Tim. 3:3, 8). In this context, ‘given’ means ‘surrendered to or overcome by,’ which we would know as drunkenness.

Throughout the scripture, the Bible speaks against drunkenness, and one of the most famous examples of a drunk person who did great work for God, Noah, after the ark landed on Mount Ararat (Gen. 9:20-27, Prov. 20:1, Eph. 5:18, et al)

The truth about drunkenness is, I don’t know, nor does the Bible describe exactly what defines drunkenness versus, for instance, having what we Americans call a 'buzz' from drinking.

However, I never assume because that means God’s Word is either not enough or violating His command of not privately interpreting (2 Cor. 12:9, 2 Pet. 1:20-22).

In conclusion, I want to make something clear.

The Lord Jesus, through the Holy Spirit, brought me out of a deep dependence on alcohol. I am not teaching this because I am attempting, in any way, to justify a bad habit that I used to struggle with.

I do not drink alcohol, not because I think it is wrong, but because it’s too big of a temptation for me to backslide into drunkenness. However, just because I cannot drink alcohol does not mean I should forbid people from doing so and claim my stance is biblical.

A church leader teaching people that alcohol is ‘evil’ without properly explaining is in fact calling Jesus and Paul sinners. Paul admitted to being one but if Jesus is a sinner because of personally brewing it and encouraging and participating in its consumption, our faith is in vain.