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Prohibitionists such as Stephen Reynolds<ref>Reynolds, ''The Biblical Approach to Alcohol''.</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Stephen M. Reynolds |title=Alcohol and the Bible |publisher=Challenge Press |year=1983 |isbn=978-0-86645-094-2}}</ref><ref name="Reynolds">{{cite journal|author=Stephen M. Reynolds|title=Issue and Interchange - Scripture Prohibits the Drinking of Alhocolic Beverages|url=http://reformed.org/webfiles/antithesis/v2n2/ant_v2n2_issue2.html| journal=Antithesis |date=May /June 1991 | volume=2 |issue=2 | accessdate=2007-01-22}} See also the other installments in the debate between Reynolds and Kenneth Gentry in the [http://reformed.org/webfiles/antithesis/v2n2/index.html same issue of the magazine].</ref> and [[Jack Van Impe]]<ref>{{cite book|title=Alcohol: The Beloved Enemy|author=Jack Van Impe| publisher=Jack Van Impe Ministries |year=1980 |isbn=978-0-934803-07-6}}</ref> hold that the Bible forbids partaking of alcohol altogether, with some arguing that the alleged medicinal use of wine in [http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1Ti+5:23 1 Timothy 5:23] is a reference to unfermented grape juice.<ref name="Bacchiocchi">{{cite web |url=http://www.biblicalperspectives.com/books/wine_in_the_bible/1.html | title=A Preview of ''Wine in the Bible''| author=Samuele Bacchiocchi| accessdate=2007-01-22}}</ref> They argue that the words for alcoholic beverages in the Bible can also refer to non-alcoholic versions such as unfermented grape juice, and for this reason the context must determine which meaning is required.<ref name="Earle"/><ref name="Reynolds"/> In passages where the beverages are viewed negatively, prohibitionists understand them to mean the alcoholic drinks, and where they are viewed positively, they understand them to mean non-alcoholic drinks.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.babylonfalls.org/forchristians/christandalcohol2sep06.html |title=Christians and Alcohol|author=Hermano Cisco}}</ref> Prohibitionists also accuse most Bible translators of exhibiting a bias in favor of alcohol that obscures the meaning of the original texts.<ref name="Bacchiocchi"/><ref name="Reynolds"/>
[[The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]], the largest body of the [[Latter Day Saint movement]], also teaches that "God has spoken against the use of ... [a]lcohol."<ref>{{cite web| url=http://mormon.org/mormonorg/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=7a45055b23710110VgnVCM1000003a94610aRCRD&locale=0&sourceId=1f476db0580a1110VgnVCM100000176f620a____ |title=The Commandments: Obey the Word of Wisdom |publisher=The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints |accessdate=2007-06-29}}</ref><ref name="Benson">{{cite journal |title=A Principle with a Promise |author=Ezra Taft Benson |journal=Ensign |date=May 1983 |pages=53–55
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