:The adequate availability of an abundance of fermented alcoholic wine on such an occasion (John 2:10 KJV) does not automatically justify any assumption that that the guests who had '''[https://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?t=nkjv&strongs=g3184 "well drunk"]''' of the wine '''''must''''' have been falling down drunk like pagan Greeks and Romans. This is an utterly unfounded assumption, a form of [[confirmation bias]] based on abstinence [[polemic]], which sees no distinction between a sip of wine and the gluttony of unrestrained drinking of alcohol to the point of mindless imbecility, all indifferently condemned as the single sin of drunkenness damning the soul to [[hell]]. The Bible itself recognizes several degrees of intoxication, from the cheerful joy of light inebriation, to the absolute disgrace of grossly drunken immoral behavior ending in slurred speech, blurred vision, loss of coordination, mindlessly irrational, babbling incoherency, vomit-covered garments and tables, brawling, bruises, falls, hallucinations and unconscious collapse. A responsibly informed Christian [[Hermeneutics|hermeneutic]] charitably assumes the ordinary, historically confirmed cultural meaning that the wedding guests at Cana "''had drunk well''" as Jews, "''rightly, properly''", to at most a point of light or moderate intoxication, thus "''doing well''" (James 2:8; 1 Peter 2:15-16) with a prudent measure of reasonable moderation, in accordance with normal Jewish cultural custom, which strongly disapproved of immoderate drunkenness.
:The '''assumption''' of Leon C. Fields and his cited supportive sources that, if the wine at Cana was indeed even mildly alcoholic wine, and the Jewish wedding guests at Cana were ("''of course '''!''' ''") normally all regular "drunkards" as he proposes<br>—the '''assumption''' that they were all drunkards who, using that occasion as a pretext, would therefore have been expected to seize the opportunity to be ''immoderately, excessively, utterly'' intoxicated from an uninterrupted binge of seven days and nights of non-stop drinking of alcoholic wine to the extreme point of vomiting and falling down unconscious in an alcoholic stupor ([https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah+28%3A1-8&version=RSVCE Isaiah 28:1-8]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Peter+4%3A3-5&version=RSVCE 1 Peter 4:3-5])<br> the —the '''assumption''' that even one sip of alcoholic wine is the unforgivable sin of drunkenness, because Paul says "drunkards cannot inherit the kingdom of God"<br>—the '''assumption''' that Jesus would walk among them and therefore ''ipso facto'' have knowingly, ''sinfully'', provided "a crowd of drunkards" (meaning all of the invited wedding guests) with even more alcohol, 120 to 180 gallons of what the caterer called "the good wine" (an even better wine than they had been drinking, which would certainly and unavoidably enable them all as drunkards to get even more intoxicated)<br>—'''''this assumption''''' is an outstanding example of what the Bible condemns as "rash judgment". <br> [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+7%3A1-5&version=RSVCE Matthew 7:1-5]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+7%3A24&version=RSVCE John 7:24]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+13%3A8-14%3A23&version=RSVCE Romans 13:8–14:23]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Timothy+4%3A4-5&version=RSVCE 1 Timothy 4:4-5].
:Wine was a '''food''' in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Israelite_cuisine Ancient Israelite cuisine]. <br> '''[http://biblehub.com/mark/7-19.htm "Thus he declared all foods clean." Mark 7:19]'''. <br> See [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark+7%3A14-23&version=RSVCE '''Mark 7:14-23''']. <br> See also [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts+10%3A14-15&version=KJV '''Acts 10:14-15''']; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+12%3A20-37&version=KJV '''Matthew 12:20-37''']; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+7%3A21&version=KJV '''Matthew 7:21''']; <br> [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+7%3A24&version=KJV '''John 7:24'''] and [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+7%3A1-5&version=KJV '''Matthew 7:1-5''']. <br> Compare [[Scandal]], [[Prejudice]], [[Straw man fallacy]], [[Polemic]] and [[Falsehood]].
:''See especially'' [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Timothy+2%3A23-26&version=RSVCE '''2 Timothy 2:23-26''']; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+14&version=RSVCE '''Romans 14''']; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation+22%3A11-12&version=RSVCE '''Revelation 22:11-12''']; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+15%3A12-14&version=RSVCE '''Matthew 15:12-14'''].