{"id":6590,"date":"2019-09-30T04:15:29","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/christ-carried-him-out\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:15:29","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:15:29","slug":"christ-carried-him-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/christ-carried-him-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Christ Carried Him Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A native of interior China wanted to become a Christian but couldn&#8217;t understand how Christianity was superior to Confucianism and Buddhism.<\/p>\n<p>One morning he came to the missionary in a happy mood saying, &#8220;I dreamed last night, and now I understand.  I dreamed I had fallen into a deep pit where I lay helpless and despairing.  Confucius came and said, &#8216;Let me give you advice, my friend; if you get out of your trouble, never get in again.&#8217;  Buddha came and said, &#8216;If you can climb up to where I can reach you, I will help you.&#8217;  Then Christ came.  He climbed down into the pit and carried me out.&#8221;  It takes the Savior of man to do that.  Only a Savior would stoop so low as to save a sinful soul like yours and mine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A native of interior China wanted to become a Christian but couldn&#8217;t understand how Christianity was superior to Confucianism and Buddhism. One morning he came to the missionary in a happy mood saying, &#8220;I dreamed last night, and now I understand. I dreamed I had fallen into a deep pit where I lay helpless and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[895,2087,2089,2088,403,980,118],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6590"}],"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=6590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}