In old Europe this happened but not in Bible times. In old England water was so unclean people joined the military to go to foreign countries were they had better food and drinking water. In the Bible times people drank liquor and nothing wrong with drinking alcohol but getting drunk is the issue. My mother drinks a Kosher wine called Manischewitz. It helps her low blood since wine (in small doses) is good for you. It's how the fat French can eat the most richest foods yet never die of a heart attack. My mom realized this when she worked for a lot of Frenchmen and foreigners. The French and Jews have it down right. The grape especially when fermented is VERY good for your blood. Especially when it has no sugars. A kosher wine/grape juice is called a Meshuval, Kedem a grape juice in America is kosher. It is just grape juice but has a wine after taste because its so pure. Arabs and especially Bedouin LONG SINCE mastered proper water. They were very good at it. They learned to find waters and were not barbarians like the English and didnt fling fecal matter into a stream. Europeans never realized feces would make water impure which goes against common logic even at that day of age :? . A lot of the wells in the middle-east today are just modernized old ones that have existed in centuries past I may add. Nothing has changed over there and it is why i love it ;D , Arabs, Kurds, Persians, Bedouins have my greatest admiration for their well preserved culture.
Christians make up excuses and some say that wine back then had no alcohol which is total non sense. Some century year old wines were found in Jerusalem back when I was 8 years old and YES they had 40% liquor in them! Enough to knock a cow out after a few cups. Only reason it was 45% is because the water.flavoring evaporated and caked up but even so a good 35% would have been left.
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