If you take the time to google “benefits of drinking alcohol” you will find “The benefits of alcohol consumption have long been known. The Bible refers to alcohol's medicinal properties no less than 191 times.

Alcohol is beneficial in controlling the following conditions

From the article quoted:

Vaster, Ellen White says that there are at least appear to be short term benefits from taking drugs. One could then argue that under certain circumstances one should use drugs. But, if there are no benefits from taking drugs, you couldn't ever argue that. Some say taking shark cartilage gives benefits. Therefore, one could argue the they should take it. However, if there are no benefits and only harm, could they argue they should take it?

She also says that all drugs are harmful in spite of their short term appearing benefits. I don't do drugs whether it's alcohol, smoking, medical, or otherwise.

Now, if I had an accident, I would do drugs at a minimal amount knowing full well they were harmful, but the benefit of recovering would outweigh it. Therefore, I could argue there are certain rare cases where it's ok to take drugs even if they are harmful. Those promoting vaccines would likewise say the same excepting that is a non-emergency supposed benefit from some supposed future anticipated event. Similarly, I would not take any poison for cancer treatments.

? This doesn't seem to be true in Loma Linda. The truth is, all those benefits mentioned in the article should be achieved through a good lifestyle, not through alcohol.

So far no one has given any benefit from drinking alcohol.

The point is that there are benefits from alcohol.

..."Studies have shown that wine can be beneficial to health,..." So I guess it is true, even at Loma Linda.

No one is saying rush out and start drinking. If you don't drink, don't start. If you are pregnant, don't drink. If other health issues, don't drink. But there are health benefits, just be reasonable and moderate.

Are we talking about alcohol or wine?

Unfortunately the texts used to support this are misapplied. (1 Cor. 3:16; 6:19; and 2 Cor. 6:16) They do not refer to food or alcohol, but to divisions in the church (1 Cor. 3:16), joining oneself with a prostitute (1 Cor. 6:19), and “being yoked with unbelievers” (2 Cor. 6:16)

Yes, there have been quite a few.

The findings indicate that one likely positive benefit of moderate ethanol consumption is to diminish the production of fibrinogen, which reduces the potential risk exerted by this protein. The site of action of ethanol is, at least in part, exerted at the level of gene transcription.