{"id":4872,"date":"2019-09-30T03:46:55","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T03:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/a-bible-with-a-sad-ending\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T03:46:55","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T03:46:55","slug":"a-bible-with-a-sad-ending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/a-bible-with-a-sad-ending\/","title":{"rendered":"A Bible With A Sad Ending"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the 18th century, the U. S. Congress once issued a special edition of Thomas Jefferson\u2019s Bible.  It was a simple copy of our Bible with all references to the supernatural eliminated.  Jefferson, in selecting, had confined himself solely to the moral teachings of Jesus.  The closing words of Jefferson\u2019s Bible are: \u201cThere laid they Jesus and rolled a great stone at the mouth of the sepulchre and departed.\u201d  Thank God our Bible ended with the news that \u201cHe Is Risen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>________<\/p>\n<p>From Encyclopedia of 7700 Illustrations by Paul Lee Tan, submitted by Charles Krieg, St. Joseph\u2019s Seminary, Princeton, NJ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the 18th century, the U. S. Congress once issued a special edition of Thomas Jefferson\u2019s Bible. It was a simple copy of our Bible with all references to the supernatural eliminated. Jefferson, in selecting, had confined himself solely to the moral teachings of Jesus. The closing words of Jefferson\u2019s Bible are: \u201cThere laid they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[129,4340,4339],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4872"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}