> I think Paul put it most plainly when he said this, in Colossians:
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> "Therefore no one is to act as your judge in regard to food or drink or in respect to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath day" (Col. 2:16)
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> In other words, I can't say "Don't drink!" because, as he goes on to say in the same chapter, my ordinance does nothing to combat "fleshly indulgence". I think what he is getting at(WARNING! INTERPRETATION AHEAD!)is that drinking, in and of itself, is not wrong, but as we become increasingly "spiritual", as opposed to "fleshly", we will no longer feel the need to indulge ourselves in such things.

I just realized that you'll really need to read the rest of the chapter in Colossian to understand what I'm talking about there. Sorry about that.