One of Jefferson's English "source" Bibles shows where the founding father cut out passages (CNN)
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Notably, as learned and wordly as many of our Founders were, Jefferson included scriptural passages in French.
Yes, our blessed, brilliant and amazing Founding Fathers were indeed desirous of and guided by Judeo-Christian values in creating this most wonderful, and unique precious Republic .. if we can keep it. Please pray for America .. and for God's protection on us and on our brave military.
Nobody is “brilliant” who takes a pair of scissors to God’s Word.
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All great men have blind spots. Deliberately ignoring the miracles and deity of Jesus Christ was Jefferson’s.
Don't flame me, just posting a picture and comment that I thought relevant.
Thomas Jefferson Notes on the State of Virginia, Query 18
Categories: God
Date: 1781
And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep for ever.
Thomas Jefferson First Inaugural Address
Categories: Religion and Morality
Date: April 4, 1801
[B]enign religion, professed, in deed, and practiced in various forms, yet all of them inculcating honesty, truth, temperance, gratitude, and the love of man; acknowledging and adoring and overruling Providence, which, by all its dispensations proves that it delights in the happiness of man here and his greater happiness hereafter
My views of (the Christian religion)... are the result of a life of inquiry and reflection, and very different from that anti-Christian system imputed to me by those who know nothing of my opinions. To the corruptions of Christianity I am, indeed, opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself. I am a Christian, in the only sense in which he wished anyone to be - sincerely attached to his doctrines, in preference to all others; ascribing to himself every human excellence, and believing he never claimed any other.
Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to Charles Thomson, 1816:
I am a real Christian, that is to say, a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus - very different from the Platonists, who call me infidel and themselves Christians and preachers of the gospel, while they draw all the characteristic dogmas from what its Author never said nor saw. They have compounded from the hethen mysteries a system beyond the comprehension of man, of which the great Reformer of the vicious ethics and deism of the Jews, were He to return on earth, would not recognize one feature.
Raven6:
So, he chose to focus on the pure teachings of Jesus Christ... and to carry with him those teachings in what he considered to be the most pure form available - by removing all but the words of Jesus Christ. I will not fault him for that, for in my eyes it is no different than carrying a "red letter" version of the KJV so that the reader may more readily view the words of the savior.
I once was very amused by a bumper sticker I saw that said "If it is not the King James Version, it is not the Bible!" I so terribly wanted to ask the driver "Well what was it then when it was still in Greek and in Hebrew?" The bible has been translated over the years in order to allow man to better understand God's word... I consider the message to be the inspired word of God, but I do not consider the paper and ink itself to be "holy." That does not mean that I treat a physical bible with disrespect... (I treat all bound books with respect - I treasure my books!) It just means I understand the difference between the message and the media that transmits it. (The religion of peace, on the other hand, goes ballistic if you let a koran touch the floor.)
For a good biography on Jefferson, along with a good source of quotes from him on a variety of subjects, I suggest: The Real Thomas Jefferson; Allison, Maxfield, Cook and, Skousen; National Center for Constitutional Studies, 1983, 2008. This is part of a series I consider most valuable: The American Classic Series. The other two books of the series cover George Washington and Benjamin Franklin.
Regards,
Raven6
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Thank you for sharing. We must all still believe in the American Dream. It just can’t be died, not now, not ever.
Jefferson was really smart, but there were occasions when he completely lost his ability to think clearly.
