Topic: news Born Again: The Rise of Christianity in Modern China

Mr. MorphCartel & Co

If you had spend those time in reading some history, you wouldn't resort to that lame argument. There are many versions of Bible. But the story of the Rules of the Benedict is a historic fact. Here are some text approximate translated (not by me) into English. From such text, it would show you not only what are the rules but also why so.

“Each one has his own gift from God, the one in this way, the other in that. Therefore it is with some hesitation that the amount of daily sustenance for others is fixed by us. Nevertheless, in view of the weakness of the infirm we believe that a hemina of wine a day is enough for each one. Those moreover to whom God gives the ability of bearing abstinence shall know that they will have their own reward. But the prior shall judge if either the needs of the place, or labour or the heat of summer, requires more; considering in all things lest satiety or drunkenness creep in. In deed we read that wine is not suitable for monks at all. But because, in our day, it is not possible to persuade the monks of this, let us agree at least as the fact that we should drink till we are sated, but sparingly. For wine can make even the wise to go astray. Where, moreover, the necessities of the place are such that the amount written above can not be found – but much less or nothing at all – those who live there shall bless God and shall not murmur. And we admonish them to this above all; that they be without murmuring. “