Why Thomas Jefferson Didn't Believe in Miracles
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ก.ย. 2024
- Jefferson didn't believe in miracles, but he did believe in the teachings of Jesus Christ. His biblical compilation played down the supernatural while highlighting moral teachings for a modern world.
From: JEFFERSON'S SECRET BIBLE
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"Jefferson's Bible", the one that excises all the distortions added by the Romans and fills in the clarity of the sovereignty of Jesus as the example of individual love vs. group or collective hate. And they say he was an atheist, if they only knew. Guess who twisted and added all the miracles, those in power, they wanted people to identify them and their government with the "miracles" as a way to confuse the public about Jesus' real message vs. what the Romans wanted people to think.
econogate the Jefferson bible, which one?
If you’re talking about the 1804 bible, it was all the words written in red to give to the Indians. The 1820s Bible was a collection of 80 something moral teachings of Jesus. Nothing more, nothing less
Thank you. Peterson.
Really wish that I could have written him one letter. He didn't believe in the supernatural, but he did understand propositional logic, descartes, and thought experiments.
I would say if you can pick and choose what you want in the bible then you may as well throw out all of it.
nah. i need to believe jesus walked on water to follow his teachings?
I mean sure but that would include all of the rich history related to the Bible too would it not? Like Yahweh being a Canaanite god who eventually became who we know now and how originally the followers of Yahweh and it’s religion was Henotheistic which I guess some of that remains in bibles although council of gods and other mentions of multiple beings is now attributed to Angels
@@udieunit I do not believe that a lot of the bible is history and as far as the old testament god goes he was really blood thirsty.
great upload to say the least, thanks. 8)
If Thomas Jefferson didn't believe in miracles, he didn't really believe in Jesus.
Well he was an atheist. Like Hemmingway said: "All thinking men are atheists"
He was agnostic
Ras J all of you guys are idiots. He was a Christian deist, not atheist not agnostic not anti-Christian. He calls himself “Christian” multiple times in “The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth”, because he believed in the moral and philosophical teachings of Jesus, but rejected the divinity of Jesus, as do I, because almost everything that orthodox Christians say he did corrupts and perverts the morality of him, and does not abide by any natural law, and nobody today is doing anything that Jesus “did”.
Judging by the fact that he wrote to a letter to John Adams in 1823 that contained him denouncing atheism and the fact that he premoted Christianity constantly and claimed he was a Christian himself, I believe both of you are wrong.
@@rockinresurrection6542 Judging by the affairs, the 3 unsuccessfull marriages, and the suicide, it seems he was not completely the thinking man that people make him out to be.
This article is based on lies. There is a full account of what T Jefferson believed in his own hand. Just one is th 1804 publication of the american Indian script for missionaries...
Well miracles by religious definitions is an event that is supernatural or divine in origin and defies nature. So they're supposed to be that way.
Boloney, Thomas Jefferson didn’t believe as the Smithsonian claims. He created a 1804 pamphlet for the Indians that included a chronological story of Jesus’ like that included all the miracles, resurrection, everything. The 1820 collection of 81 moral codes to live by wasn’t his attempt to remove the miracles, but to list the moral principles that Americans should live by, this it was called the collection of morals. Come on, this is easy stuff and they want to politicize this issue to destroy or attempt to discredit an important conservative and God loving founder.
Letter to William Short (1820):
"Among the sayings & discourses imputed to him by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination, correct morality, and of the most lovely benevolence: and others again of so much ignorance, so much absurdity, so much untruth, charlatanism, and imposture, as to pronounce it impossible that such contradictions should have proceeded from the same being. I separate therefore the gold from the dross; restore to him the former, & leave the latter to the stupidity of some, and roguery of others of his disciples. Of this band of dupes and impostors, Paul was the great Coryphaeus, and first corrupter of the doctrines of Jesus. These palpable interpolations and falsifications of his doctrines led me to try to sift them apart."
Imagine thinking Jefferson was a conservative! Jefferson was one of the most radical of the Founding Fathers in his desire to alter society, the very antithesis of conservatism. Jefferson supported public education, a very controversial idea during his lifetime. He grew up in a world where practically every country was a theocracy, yet cited establishing religious freedom in Virginia as one of his 3 main accomplishments. He literally wanted to abolish all hierarchy.
I wonder if Jefferson knew the story of Jesus was based on old Sun worshiping stories.
Well considering that they weren't... I'm guessing... Nope.
Citation needed.
That theory has actually been disturbing..... Trust me, I'm not a religious person. I looked it up.
He knew...
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(Revelation 22:18-19)
¹⁸ For* ( NU-Text and M-Text omit For* ) I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: If anyone adds to these things, God will add* (*M-Text reads may God add ) to him the plagues that are written in this book;
¹⁹ and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away* (*M-Text reads may God take away ) his part from the Book* (*NU-Text and M-Text read Tree of Life ) of Life, from the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.
Jesus without the supernatural is an arrogant guy who speaks non-sequittors. If Jesus wasn't the son of God who came to die to take the wrath we deserve, then he is just a nut.
if he don't believe in the miracles then who was his father in this bible. I didn't read it but that's the whole concept of jesus being the son of god. not just the son of some old carpenter.
so what did it state about the father of jesus. I myself didn't read it. so was joseph his dad or was it the way the KJ states and all other foolish bibles.
He did believe in miracles, if this is the smithsonian channel, you should know that.
Which miracle did he believe in
They want to paint Jefferson as a "petersonian" atheist, one who only pretends to believe in God because of the results. This is because the Smithsonian is run by those kinds of people. Notice how they never discuss how Jefferson believed Paul the Apostle to be a corruptor of Christianity.
Take the supernatural out of the Gospel and you have no Gospel....All you have a is a good man saying some good things.....and that cannot save anyone.....You have to know that Jesus was God himself for you to be saved.....The ressurection of Christ is the very thing that keeps Christians going and hoping for Jesus to come back....Take that out and folks wont be motivated to live this Christians lifestyle.
+judgmental 84 I will agree that taking out the supposed miracles does diminish the bible a bit. all that you are left with after that is bigotry violence and a warped sense of morality. On the plus side, it shows that Jefferson was on the right track. He was one of the few people of his time that didn't think like a sheep. I have confidence that after he eliminated all the magic, he realized how ugly the so called "morality" of the Bible was. If you want to break free of the dogma of the bible, read it. Then all you have to do is think critically about what you've read. you will quickly realize how backwards and hypocritical it all is. For instance. Jesus says that you need to love him more than your mother and father and more than you own kids, otherwise you are not worthy of his love. ( Matthew 10 : 37) also apparently women are supposed to sleep outside during their period (Leviticus 15:19-33) and call their husbands master (1 Peter 3:5-6) further more the world is flat un-moving and the universe was made for little old us to enjoy... or more accurately, us men, because God has a penis for some reason, and woman are just the stuff of our rib for us to use and exploit. You're right though, the bible is sooo much better if you leave the miracles in it.
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He could believe in Jesus the philosopher and not the son of god.
I kind of wish the Smithsonian wasn’t defaming a dead man.
Thomas Jefferson my favorite president
Aliens seeded mankind. Jesus was a Star person. Moses was the most interesting of all, Egyptians were working with Aliens. The Ark of the covenant was a tool used to construct the pyramids, from star people.
evidence to back up this claim or anything at all for that matter ? or you believing things said on utube..?
RMN Troyce my Uncle works for black Projects as an Engineer. Many types of Aliens. We have joined the Spaceforce with many rules and regulation, they are slowly preparing the public for their presence. Aliens destroyed CERN, a danger to this planet, and we figured out that we can see their energy and ships with a particular light, that exposed them. David Wilcox, not the singer, is a great reference for newbies, if your interested.
@@sharannbray6513 watched ancient aliens?
@@sharannbray6513 Its true i am in close contact with aliens... they told me to call them The Wide-eyes and never to speak badly about them. The wide-eyes are watching us always. We have mistakenly called them god.
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Matthew 24:4
And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.
Revelation Chapter 22
18For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book:
19And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.