Please elaborate on your definition of shady. Which actions or words were shady? What contradicted the words of Christ Jesus and the 12?
If you are an advocate of the Jeffersonian 'gospel', then please comment on if you agreed with Jefferson when he stated he did not believe in the miracles of Christ only His words.
Well, he seems to have been obsessed with Jesus, first in persecuting Christians, and then in believing that Jesus spoke to him. He reminds me of that character in Les Miserables who hunted Jean Valjean for decades. Obsessed, first with wresting believers away from Jesus, and then with basically taking over the wheel. This is a personality type one would avoid in real life.