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Toto · 11-02-2006, 12:44 PM

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Jack Crocker, a beer-loving machinist and "part-time Christian," finally agreed to read Proverbs with wife Reanna. He's glad he did.

"I'm a Proverbs 31 husband all right," says Jack, then quotes Proverbs 31:6-7: "Give beer to those who are perishing, wine to those who are in anguish; let them drink and forget their poverty and remember their misery no more."

"That's my permission to crack open a cold one," Jack says, having a Coors after dinner.

But Reanna, a new church member, is pushing Jack hard to stop drinking. She insists he is neither "perishing" nor "in anguish." But Jack researched the Bible on the Internet and found 2 Corinthians 4:16 and 5:2 which say, "Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day," and "Meanwhile we groan, longing to be clothed with our heavenly dwelling."

"Everyone is perishing and in anguish," Jack says. "Until we're delivered from these bodies, the Bible says to drink up."

davidbach · 11-03-2006, 04:57 AM

Good one, Toto!

There are not many subjects on which you cannot find one bible verse pro and another contra!

David.

Major Billy · 11-03-2006, 12:32 PM

...That's why we drink it here!

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11-03-2006, 04:57 AM	#2
davidbach Regular Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: North Carolina Posts: 462	Good one, Toto! There are not many subjects on which you cannot find one bible verse pro and another contra! David.

11-03-2006, 12:32 PM	#3
Major Billy Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Florida's Technology Swamp Posts: 510	...That's why we drink it here!

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