{"id":29411,"date":"2011-01-04T19:03:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-05T01:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/?p=29411"},"modified":"2021-01-04T19:30:59","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T01:30:59","slug":"drinking-in-the-bible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/drinking-in-the-bible\/","title":{"rendered":"Drinking in the Bible"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t<div id=\"attachment_12335\" style=\"width: 317px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12335\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/scan0013_tif-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"307\" height=\"342\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-12335\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grapes Matthew 7:16<\/p><\/div>\n<h2>Old Testament<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Sermon with Audio: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/drinking-in-the-old-testament\/\">Drinking in the Old Testament<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Article: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/old-testament-beverages\/\">Old Testament Beverages<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>New Testament<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Sermon with audio: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/drinking-in-the-old-testament\/\">Drinking in the New Testament<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Article: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/new-testament-beverages\/\">New Testament Beverages<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Old Testament Sermon with Audio: Drinking in the Old Testament Article: Old Testament Beverages New Testament Sermon with audio: Drinking in the New Testament Article: New Testament Beverages<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,119,32],"tags":[371],"class_list":["post-29411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","category-audio","category-sermon","tag-alcohol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":34718,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/thank-you-for-all-the-work-you-did-to-produce-the-study-on-drinking-in-the-old-testament\/","url_meta":{"origin":29411,"position":0},"title":"Thank you for all the work you did to produce the study on Drinking in the Old Testament","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"September 12, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: Dear Brother, Answer: Thank you. You may be interested in the companion lesson:\u00a0Drinking in the New Testament. Also, both of these lessons were written in article format and can be found at: Old Testament Beverages New Testament Beverages","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Answer&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Answer","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/answer\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":94813,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/the-canon-of-the-bible\/","url_meta":{"origin":29411,"position":1},"title":"The Canon of the Bible","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"March 28, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"by Jeffrey W. 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