{"id":898,"date":"2011-08-24T16:25:55","date_gmt":"2011-08-24T20:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/?p=898"},"modified":"2011-08-24T16:26:36","modified_gmt":"2011-08-24T20:26:36","slug":"the-christian-conversion-of-abraham-lincoln","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/the-christian-conversion-of-abraham-lincoln\/","title":{"rendered":"The Christian Conversion of Abraham Lincoln"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Abraham_Lincoln.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-899\" title=\"Abraham_Lincoln\" src=\"http:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Abraham_Lincoln-228x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"228\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Abraham_Lincoln-228x300.jpg 228w, http:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Abraham_Lincoln-780x1024.jpg 780w, http:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Abraham_Lincoln.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 228px) 100vw, 228px\" \/><\/a>Lincoln was sometimes criticized during political elections in his career because he never joined a church.\u00a0 He was accused of being an Atheist.\u00a0 Apparently, he rejected to some degree his parents&#8217; Baptist heritage.\u00a0 But as he grew older and rose in the political ranks, he seemed to talk about spiritual things more.\u00a0 He began attending Presbyterian churches and even had one of his children baptized.\u00a0 One interesting testimony is given from one pastor who asked him if he loved Jesus.\u00a0 His response was the following:<\/p>\n<p>When I left Springfield I asked the people to pray for me.\u00a0 I was not a Christian.\u00a0 When I buried my son, the severest trial of my life, I was not a Christian.\u00a0 But when I went to Gettysburg and saw the graves of thousands of our soldiers, I then and there consecrated myself to Christ.\u00a0 Yes, I love Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0 <em>A Patriot&#8217;s History of the United States<\/em> by Larry Schweikart and Michael Allen.\u00a0 Their sources for this statement are documented in note 137 on page 857.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lincoln was sometimes criticized during political elections in his career because he never joined a church.\u00a0 He was accused of being an Atheist.\u00a0 Apparently, he rejected to some degree his parents&#8217; Baptist heritage.\u00a0 But as he grew older and rose in the political ranks, he seemed to talk about spiritual things more.\u00a0 He began attending [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=898"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":904,"href":"http:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898\/revisions\/904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}