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    Jesus the Winemaker: Satan's Most Effective Lie
    Jesus the Winemaker: Satan's Most Effective Lie
    Jesus the Winemaker: Satan's Most Effective Lie
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    Jesus the Winemaker: Satan's Most Effective Lie

    By Al Lunden and Alice Lunden

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    Satans most effective lie? What conceivable falsehood would be more devastating to Christianity than the false inference that Jesus was and is a maker and user of wine or of any other mind-altering drug? Jesus was a man of perfection and without sin! Is drug use not a sin?

    This book provides a solid and perhaps somewhat revolutionary biblical hypothesis to firmly prove that Moses did not use wine and that Jesus did not make or use any wine. This hypothesis is based entirely on the original Hebrew and Greek Scriptures, because the Hebrew word yayin and the Greek word oinos were falsely or inadequately translated into Latin and into other European languages at some time after the hostile takeover of the New Testament Church in Rome by Constantine the Great. This conclusion is supported by Strongs Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible and by his Hebrew and Greek dictionaries, by the books of Dr. Robert P. Teachout and Dr. Samuel Bacchiocchi, by the Full Life Study Bible edited by Donald C. Stamps, and by the Hebrew-Greek Key Word Study Bible and Lexicons of Spiros Zodhiates.

    Satan is to blame for this false translation, as he is, as Hal Lindsey once said, Alive and well on planet Earthand has overwhelming power when we allow him dominion. Those ancient words for wine and grape juice were all generic or interchangeable in literature, even until the King James Version of the Bible was printed. The original KJV is actually acceptable, but the absolute inerrancy and infallibility of Scripture have been faulted by the false translation of wine in modern Bibles since that time. Another proposed biblical hypothesis states that Satan inspired the equivalent of a hostile corporate takeover of the New Testament Church in Rome. This was done through Emperor Constantines agreement to cease the persecution and genocide of Christianity if he and his army were given key positions of respect or authority in the church. This resulted in the world's most powerful union of church and state, the Holy Roman Catholic Church, which has now existed for many centuries.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWestBow Press
    Release dateNov 4, 2011
    ISBN9781449722456
    Jesus the Winemaker: Satan's Most Effective Lie
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    Al Lunden

    Al and Alice are native Dakotan's and are retired from South Dakota State University. Al earned B.S and M.S degrees from SDSD and his PhD from the University of Florida in 1960. They are parents of three daughters, seven grandchildren, and seven great-grandchildren and ahve been married for 55 years.

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      Jesus the Winemaker - Al Lunden

      Jesus the Winemaker:

      Satan’s Most Effective Lie

      Al and Alice Lunden

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      Copyright © 2011 Al Lunden.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

      ISBN: 978-1-4497-2244-9 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4497-2245-6 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2011912784

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      WestBow Press rev. date: 11/01/2011

      Contents

      Prologue

      Acknowledgments

      Introduction

      Part I

      Chapter 1

      Chapter 2

      Chapter 3

      Part II

      Chapter 4

      Chapter 5

      Chapter 6

      Chapter 7

      Chapter 8

      Part III

      Chapter 9

      Chapter 10

      Chapter 11

      Part IV

      Chapter 12

      Chapter 13

      Chapter 14

      Chapter 15

      Chapter 16

      Epilogue

      To Jesus, Grace, Amanda, and Tilla

      Prologue

      A Satanic Hoax or Christian Weddings,

      Communion Wine, and Social Drinking

      This book is an exposé of an obvious hoax about Jesus’s and Christianity’s use of wine and other drugs, which has been going on in many or most Judeo-Christian churches, and apparently also within Judaism for about seventeen hundred years. We firmly believe that this hoax is directly responsible for the overwhelming evils of alcohol use at Jewish and Christian weddings; for much of the use and abuse of alcohol in Christian homes and in Christian nations; for use, abuse, and addiction of billions of people to alcohol; for the overwhelming sacrilege against the holy name of Jesus; and for absolute blasphemy of Almighty God.

      This hoax, from the church of my youth and through my high school years, regarding the false portrayal of Jesus as being a maker of wine at the Cana wedding, and as being a user of wine for Holy Communion at the Last Supper, was directly and largely responsible for my use and abuse of wine and other alcoholic drugs from age twenty-five to age fifty. The misguided churches and the falsely translated Bibles that they use are actually just like the enablers of men and women in our Alcoholics Anonymous programs who actually make it possible for alcoholics and alcohol abusers to continue to drink.

      My church not only gave me my very first drink of wine, when I was confirmed, but then literally encouraged me to drink by insisting that Jesus was a maker of this drug! I did not drink while in college or in the air force, but we were impressed by the liquor cabinet of my major professor at the University of Florida, and I got the habit during graduate school. My doctorate advisor was even a leader in our church and obviously trusted the inferred but false inerrancy and infallibility of the Bible relating to wedding and Communion wine, but we were both wrong. I later tragically patterned our children to be alcohol users and abusers in my false belief and understanding of the true image of Jesus.

      We pray that Christians who read this book will seek divine and absolute truth from scripture; from logic, experience, science, modern medicine, and history; and from their personal guidance or inspirations from the Holy Spirit with open hearts and minds. Through prayer and supplication, we must each find that divine and absolute truth that brings us to individual and personal knowledge and wisdom with peace, joy, comfort, and love from and for Almighty God through Christ Jesus. Seek and ye shall find.

      In Christian love,

      Al and Alice Lunden

      Acknowledgments

      This is to acknowledge the very special assistance and support from my very best friend, Jesus; from my overwhelming lifetime friend Alice and from my beautiful and saintly mother, Grace Berg Lunden, who has been living at Home with Jesus since I was 12, especially also from perhaps the best Christian Publisher in the World, West Bow Press, a Division of Thomas Nelson. This manuscript was little more than a large stack of disconnected pages before I studied the editorial standards and publication requirements of West Bow, talked to Rodney Clidienst and received further assistance from Amanda Parsons and others.

      Our final acknowledgment is to our youngest granddaughter, Natalie Silva, who will soon begin her first year of College. Natalie first typed the final copy of the original manuscript, and then incorporated the many needed and appreciated editorial changes suggested by West Bow Press, and e-mailing our final copy to them.

      Introduction

      An Amazing Revelation

      This book will certainly be an astonishing and amazing revelation for most Christians and others, just as it was for my wife and I, because the vast majority of us have forever believed that Jesus was a maker of wine. Why? Simply because the Bible says so. But what Bible and whose Bible are we referring to? The original Hebrew and Greek scriptures are obviously the only absolutely reliable records, but they are completely useless and unintelligible to most persons, so we must all rely on the words of writers like Jerome, Martin Luther, Dr. James Strong, and others who have written all of our Bible translations, dictionaries, lexicons and concordances.

      Consider five undeniable, divine, and absolute truths:

      1. The holy scriptures are absolutely inerrant, infallible, and were inspired by the mind,

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