My doctor / physician:
Jer_8:22 Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?
Mat_9:12 But when Jesus heard that, he said unto them, They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick.
Mar_2:17 When Jesus heard it, he saith unto them, They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
Luk_4:23 And he said unto them, Ye will surely say unto me this proverb, Physician, heal thyself: whatsoever we have heard done in Capernaum, do also here in thy country.
Luk_5:31 And Jesus answering said unto them, They that are whole need not a physician; but they that are sick.
His prescription (-
Prescription - Etymology, Origin & Meaning ) is His word unto salvation (G4982;, "σωσει", "swsei"; Mat. 1:21, which means fully healed / restored to perfect health):
Psa_107:20 He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.
Mat_8:8 The centurion answered and said, Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof: but speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed.
Mat_8:16 When the even was come, they brought unto him many that were possessed with devils: and he cast out the spirits with his word, and healed all that were sick:
Luk_7:7 Wherefore neither thought I myself worthy to come unto thee: but say in a word, and my servant shall be healed.
, when asked if I drink and I replied only at communion wrote down in my health record "Never drinks".
This response by your "doctor" shows that human beings lie on occasion when not fully submitted to the Holy Ghost / Spirit (in whom is no inebriation; Eph. 5:18).
Rom_3:4 God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.
Your "doctor" is not a good example of representing the truth (Deu. 32:4; Psa. 25:10, 119:142,151; Jhn. 14:6, 17:17; 1 Jhn. 5:6). It is an example of sinful mankind justifying their sins and sinful lifestyle. He might even be a professed Christian, but that does not mean his example is correct, just as Peter's was not:
Gal 2:11 But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed.
Gal 2:12 For before that certain came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles: but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing them which were of the circumcision.
Gal 2:13 And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him; insomuch that Barnabas also was carried away with their dissimulation.
Gal 2:14 But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?
Thus, like Paul, I am calling it out, in love. Like Aquila and Priscilla, I am calling to a better way:
Act_18:26 And he began to speak boldly in the synagogue: whom when Aquila and Priscilla had heard, they took him unto them, and expounded unto him the way of God more perfectly.
The woman of Rev. 17 also "drinks" from a "cup", and it causes her to lie, and with those whom she associates to lie as well:
Rev 17:4 And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:
Rev 17:5 And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
Rev_2:2 I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars:
Rev_21:8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
1Jn_2:4 He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
Even should this "doctor" claim to be a Seventh-day Adventist (and I pray not), he would still have misrepresented the facts of the matter. Drinking alcoholic content from a cup at a communion service is no different from drinking the same amount and content in any other setting. Such 'degree'd' persons were also in Jesus' day, and it was by their wresting of the words of God, that they sought to justify their own actions, and allowances. These things can still be seen in the Babylonian Talmud -
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Mal_2:12 The LORD will cut off the man that doeth this, the master and the scholar, out of the tabernacles of Jacob, and him that offereth an offering unto the LORD of hosts.
