Answer: For the true devotee, both literacy and the purity of faith and soul are important, though their roles are different and complementary. Literacy is seen as a necessary tool for accessing knowledge, enabling one to read books written by holy men and to embrace the centuries-old experience of Christian enlightenment. As stated in one source:
Sacred texts do not hide harsh criticism of uncontrolled alcohol consumption, viewing drunkenness as a destructive passion that robs a person of reason and distances them from God. For instance, one source notes that the excessive consumption of wine is seen as a ruinous passion, because “drunkenness leads to the destruction of personality and the estrangement of a person from God.” At the same time, there is a warning in the Old Testament: “Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging, and whoever is deceived by them is not wise” (Proverbs 20:1). This quote demonstrates that although wine can be seen as a symbol of life (associated with the blood of the grape cluster, for example, in other contexts), its excessive use is interpreted as a deviation from divine commandments and moral standards.
In religious debates, scientific arguments are sometimes considered inappropriate because their use implies applying methods and criteria designed for the empirical study of the world rather than for discerning the essential, spiritual truths of religion. Discussions about religious matters involve issues of faith, revelation, and spiritual experience that do not lend themselves to experimental verification. Thus, shifting to the use of scientific data in a context dominated by faith and tradition may be seen as an attempt to reduce profound spiritual matters to the narrow framework of scientific thinking.
In order to establish a connection with the Divine and unite oneself with the Creator, one must awaken a conscious, free power of mind and spirit capable of cleansing and renewal. As stated in one excerpt (source: 99_491.txt), "With consciousness and volition, man has clung to God, and God has embraced him, uniting with him in this self-aware and willful force, or mind and spirit..." This means that a person must make a deliberate effort to cleanse their thoughts, will, and heart, leaving behind previous, less pure states. Only through inner work and a conscious striving for renewal can that "unique" pure core of personality—into which the Divine can enter—be achieved.
Despite the fact that in the Bible the word "God" appears 4,370 times, this project does not emphasize the absolute number of mentions, but rather focuses on the qualitative interpretation and the meaning of the term in the context of the discussed topics. For example, one of the sources (1895_9474.txt) emphasizes: