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If we think of the term used in D&C89 in its historical context then it obviously meant mild beers. Think about it, if God really wanted us to not drink alcohol, then why not flat out say it? Instead it says strong drink and wine (but apparently wine is also okay if you make it yourself). Two separate categories of alcoholic drinks are forbidden in the revelation, but today any alcoholic drink is taboo. It just bothers me how much the WoW is emphasized when we don't really live it according to how it was written. Thoughts on the meaning of mild barley drinks?

Latter Day revelation came to interpret the revelation to include all alcoholic beverages in the same way hot drinks came to mean tea and coffee.

If indeed it was revelation and not just someone's opinion.

I agree Souldier. I don't like beer, but it does seem to me to be OK. I do drink ice tea because the revelation says hot drinks and even if there was subsequent revelation it was still referring to hot drinks. By definition, ice tea is not hot.

Another case where Joseph Smith just didn't understand what God was trying to tell him.

I'm sure Prohibition had nothing to do with the WoW including all alcoholic beverages.

/sarcasm

souldier wrote:If we think of the term used in D&C89 in its historical context then it obviously meant mild beers. Think about it, if God really wanted us to not drink alcohol, then why not flat out say it? Instead it says strong drink and wine (but apparently wine is also okay if you make it yourself). Two separate categories of alcoholic drinks are forbidden in the revelation, but today any alcoholic drink is taboo. It just bothers me how much the WoW is emphasized when we don't really live it according to how it was written. Thoughts on the meaning of mild barley drinks?

Are you seeking a consensus in order to validate something?

subgenius wrote:

souldier wrote:If we think of the term used in D&C89 in its historical context then it obviously meant mild beers. Think about it, if God really wanted us to not drink alcohol, then why not flat out say it? Instead it says strong drink and wine (but apparently wine is also okay if you make it yourself). Two separate categories of alcoholic drinks are forbidden in the revelation, but today any alcoholic drink is taboo. It just bothers me how much the WoW is emphasized when we don't really live it according to how it was written. Thoughts on the meaning of mild barley drinks?

Are you seeking a consensus in order to validate something?

I think he is subtly hinting that the early LDS Saints preferred porters and stouts to lagers and ale. Mark Twain commented that the LDS produced whiskey Valley Tan, introduced to him by Brigham Young, contained fire and brimstone.

Definitely not looking for consensus to validate an action (besides, my choice of poison is banned in either interpretation of the WoW). If anything just pointing out something that makes no sense to me. I find it ironic that so much emphasis is placed on the WOW and yet we don't even really practice it. How many of us had sausage for breakfast, tuna for lunch, then a hamburger for dinner? Don't you realize that is against the WOW according to Joseph Smith? And how is that rye diet working for the fowls? I just wish that a) clarification is added to canonized scripture to justify Heber J Grant's changes to the WoW or b) go back to the way it was originally practiced.

moksha wrote:I think he is subtly hinting that the early LDS Saints preferred porters and stouts to lagers and ale. Mark Twain commented that the LDS produced whiskey Valley Tan, introduced to him by Brigham Young, contained fire and brimstone.

The only beer I ever had that didn't require me to muscle past the gag reflex was a stout. Do they sell fire and brimstone whiskey next to the Fireball?