Why is the Word of Wisdom a temple "worthiness" requirement, when, as it still reads in the revelation, it was "not by commandment or constraint"? Where is the revelation, sustained and canonized, that altered that and changed it to be "by commandment and constraint"?
Why did Jesus (reportedly) put it this way?
It seems to me like lots of things may be unhealthy (or not good) for your body, but do not make you spiritually "unworthy". And all kinds of "righteous" figures from the Bible, including Jesus, were drinking alcohol/wine (Jesus turned water into the best wine as his first miracle, reportedly), etc.Mark 7
14 And when he had called all the people unto him, he said unto them, Hearken unto me every one of you, and understand:
15 There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man.
16 If any man have ears to hear, let him hear.
17 And when he was entered into the house from the people, his disciples asked him concerning the parable.
18 And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also? Do ye not perceive, that whatsoever thing from without entereth into the man, it cannot defile him;
19 Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats?
20 And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man.
21 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
22 Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:
23 All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.
Our position today seems more like a tradition born in the days of American Prohibition.