{"id":1552,"date":"2009-11-18T14:13:51","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T22:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2009\/11\/18\/four-posts-on-alcohol\/"},"modified":"2009-11-18T14:14:11","modified_gmt":"2009-11-18T22:14:11","slug":"four-posts-on-alcohol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2009\/11\/18\/four-posts-on-alcohol\/","title":{"rendered":"four posts on alcohol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019d like to recommend four posts on alcohol by Jeff Straub. Jeff and I tend to tangle online. We have widely different opinions in some areas. But I have to say these four articles are extremely well done and worth your time:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/centralmn.wordpress.com\/2009\/10\/26\/the-christian-and-alcohol\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Christian and Alcohol: Does the Bible Permit Drinking in Moderation?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/centralmn.wordpress.com\/2009\/10\/27\/popping-the-cork\/\" target=\"_blank\">Popping the Cork on a Can of Worms?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/centralmn.wordpress.com\/2009\/11\/09\/choosing-to-abstain\/\" target=\"_blank\">Choosing to Abstain<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/centralmn.wordpress.com\/2009\/11\/16\/one-final-word-on-alcohol\/\" target=\"_blank\">One Final Word on Alcohol<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Regular readers will know that I don\u2019t subscribe to the two-wine theory, but that I totally oppose the use of alcohol as a beverage for Christians at any time. I actually oppose the use of beverage alcohol for anyone, but my position is very unlikely to gain a hearing in the world at large. My hope is that Christians will get serious about alcohol and totally abstain. There is no good reason for any believer in Christ to ever participate in its use.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"don_sig2\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"50\" alt=\"don_sig2\" src=\"http:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/don_sig211.png\" width=\"150\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019d like to recommend four posts on alcohol by Jeff Straub. Jeff and I tend to tangle online. We have widely different opinions in some areas. But I have to say these four articles are extremely well done and worth your time: The Christian and Alcohol: Does the Bible Permit Drinking in Moderation? Popping the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[117,71],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2fYWj-p2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1553,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552\/revisions\/1553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}