What does the Bible say about the use of alcohol?

How is alcohol both God's gift and a curse at the same time?

And what does the use of wine in the Eucharist say about his acceptability for other uses?

We'll address these questions and a whole lot more with our guest, Dr. John Anthony Dunn.

We're in his new book, The Mountains

Shall Drip Sweet Wine. I'm your host, Scott Ray. I'm her co-host, Sean McDowell. I did enjoy

saying that, you know. You made me laugh at that one. This is Think Biblically from

Talbot School of Theology at Biola University. John, so much, so grateful to have you with us. We love your book,

and I have to admit, we've been doing this now for over eight years. This is year nine, huh?

Yeah, and this is the first time we've talked about this subject. That's true. So you are,

you are, you are, you are, you are, you are, you are, you are breaking new ground here.

I love it.

So tell us a little bit about what sparked your interest in this subject.

There's got to be a backstory here somewhere.

Right.

Yeah, well, you know, I grew up in a fundamentalist Baptist sort of schooling context, and I, you know,

was basically just told it's all evil, don't touch it. And, you know, my, my mom used to drink,

she gave up drinking. My dad never had a taste for it. So it really wasn't part of, you know,

my life growing up. And when I went off to college, which was Biola University, of course, we had, you know,

we had an honor code, you know, we had a policy that we would abide by, you know, that

included not drinking. And I went to Talbot, which continued. There was the same, you know,

sort of policy at the time for seminarians. And, you know, I was, I was intrigued,

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