{"id":5733,"date":"2019-09-30T04:11:05","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/lincoln-saw-himself-as-a-seeker\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:11:05","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:11:05","slug":"lincoln-saw-himself-as-a-seeker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/lincoln-saw-himself-as-a-seeker\/","title":{"rendered":"Lincoln Saw Himself As A Seeker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Abraham Lincoln, one of the few presidents who never joined a church, was often challenged about his faith.  He once responded, \u201cProbably it is my lot to go on in a twilight, feeling and reasoning my way through life, as questioning, doubting Thomas did.  But in my poor, maimed way, I bear with me as I go on seeking a spirit of desire for a faith that was with him of olden time, who, in his need, as I in mine, exclaimed, \u2018Help thou my unbelief\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lincoln added: \u201cI doubt the possibility, or propriety, of settling the religion of Jesus Christ in the models of man-made creeds and dogmas &#8230; I cannot without mental reservations assent to long and complicated creeds and catechisms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>*<\/p>\n<p>[Original illustration at this number was deleted for being obsolete]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abraham Lincoln, one of the few presidents who never joined a church, was often challenged about his faith. He once responded, \u201cProbably it is my lot to go on in a twilight, feeling and reasoning my way through life, as questioning, doubting Thomas did. But in my poor, maimed way, I bear with me as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3191,2361,3190,3192,3043,2947,3189,121],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5733"}],"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=5733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}