KJV Deuteronomy 21:20 And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard.<\/p>\n
NAU Proverbs 23:20 Do not be with heavy drinkers of wine, Or with gluttonous eaters of meat; [KJV \u2018riotous eaters of flesh\u2019]<\/p>\n
KJV Proverbs 23:21 For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.<\/p>\n
NAU Proverbs 28:7 He who keeps the law is a discerning son, But he who is a companion of gluttons humiliates his father. [KJV \u2018riotous men<\/em>\u2019]<\/p>\n KJV Matthew 11:19 The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children.<\/p>\n KJV Luke 7:34 The Son of man is come eating and drinking; and ye say, Behold a gluttonous man, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners!<\/p>\n NAU Titus 1:12 One of themselves, a prophet of their own, said, "Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons." [KJV – \u2018slow bellies\u2019 \u2013 a more literal rendering]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n So would you say that the Bible makes gluttony the same thing as drunkenness? There are 25 verses with drunken, drunkard, drunkenness in both NAU and KJV. It is included in most of the prominent NT \u201csin lists\u201d: Rm 13.13, 1 Co 5.11, 1 Co 6.10, Gal 5.21, 1 Pt 4.3. In addition, another 43 verses have the word \u2018drunk\u2019 in them, although not all of them refer to drunkenness.<\/p>\n Would you say from that evidence that the Lord looks at gluttony in the same way as drunkenness?<\/p>\n Even more than that, what would you say gluttony is?<\/p>\n Here is the NET Bible note on Pr 23.20 – \u2018riotous eaters of flesh\u2019:<\/p>\n The verb \u2026 (zalal) means "to be light; to be worthless; to make light of." Making light of something came to mean "to be lavish with; to squander," especially with regard to food. So it describes "gluttons" primarily; but in the expression there is also room for the person who wastes a lot of food as well. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Would you say that what we call \u2018overeating\u2019 in our culture is Biblical gluttony? Well, it may be that some of our overeating and wasting of food is gluttony. But remember that \u2018fatness\u2019 is a metaphor of God\u2019s blessing in the Bible. I don\u2019t mean to say that we should all be porkers if we want to be Biblical. But it does seem to me that the Bible is addressing something quite different from what we call gluttony when it does address this problem.<\/p>\n And it is quite clear that the Bible addresses drunkenness much more seriously and much more frequently.<\/p>\n So be wise, be submissive, be biblical, and stay away from the buffet line. But even more, stay away from booze.<\/p>\n A common line given by the pro-alcohol crowd is \u201cwell, gluttony is a sin too, why don\u2019t you preach on that?\u201d Well, what is the Biblical foundation for this statement? Search and you will find exactly 4 verses that use the words \u2018gluttonous\u2019 or \u2018glutton\u2019 in the KJV. The NAU adds three more references.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[117,71],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2fYWj-mQ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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