It was common practice to dilute wine.
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Shanedino@lemmy.world 1 week agoListened through a history of rome podcast and learned an interesting thing where win was basically like a concentrate so you would mix it with water to drink. Aka. water -> wine.
Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
xenoclast@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Isn’t that just port then?
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I hope not, because port is my wine of choice and I would be like, “fuck you, Jesus. I wanted to drink that!”
MagicShel@programming.dev 1 week ago
So it wasn’t alcohol or anything remotely like what we would call wine today? That’s a bad translation.
That said using reasoning like this to remove the supernatural from the Bible rather defeats the entire point, doesn’t it? If Jesus just made Gatorade like anyone else would, that’s a rather unremarkable thing to describe. Hardly worth committing to writing.
Shanedino@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I am sure there are countless mundane tasks that are pretty unremarkable.
Does the Bible really have a point? I guess other than brainwashing masses?
MagicShel@programming.dev 1 week ago
That’s what I’m saying. There’s no record of him wiping his ass or playing cards. If it’s in the book it must be intended to present something exceptional. Explain his actions as something mundane and there isn’t really any reason to write it down.
But equally, the fantastic supernatural elements make the whole thing into a fairy tale to be completely disregarded as a dubious source of folk wisdom at best by any thinking person.