Originally Posted by Blueridge reformer

The teaching that is proposed here by some of the brethren, when examined closely is absurd. If what they teach is so, then the people labored all year in thier vineyards so they could have grape juice for about three days a year. The juice begins to ferment in around 4 days. The Lord drank fermented wine at the last supper because it would have been impossible (without a miracle performed by him) to have grape juice at that time of year. They could have had plain juice only once a year at harvest time and then for just a few days.
The modern day temperance movement, which is abstinance and not temperance, is a product of bad teaching that has come around since the later part of the 19th and early part of the 20th centuries as far as I can tell. It is extremely popular among antinomian fundamentalists and hyper arminian holiness types.