{"id":6023,"date":"2019-09-30T04:11:21","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/lewiss-lack-of-faith\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:11:21","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:11:21","slug":"lewiss-lack-of-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/lewiss-lack-of-faith\/","title":{"rendered":"Lewis&#8217;s Lack of Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>C.S. Lewis once wrote to a friend,<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe trouble with me is  lack of faith .  I have no  rational  ground for going back on the arguments that convinced me of God\u2019s existence: but the irrational deadweight of my own skeptical habits, and the spirit of this age, and the care of the day, steal away all my lively feeling of the truth, and often when I pray I wonder if I am not posting letters to a non-existent address.  Mind you I don\u2019t  think so  \u2013 the whole of my reasonable mind is convinced: but I often  feel so .\u201d<\/p>\n<p>________<\/p>\n<p>Letters to Arthur Greeves, Dec. 24, 1930, 398-399<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>C.S. Lewis once wrote to a friend, \u201cThe trouble with me is lack of faith . I have no rational ground for going back on the arguments that convinced me of God\u2019s existence: but the irrational deadweight of my own skeptical habits, and the spirit of this age, and the care of the day, steal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3486,123,3485,3483,3048,3484,602],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6023"}],"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=6023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}