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To: JAKraig

Jefferson most definitely believed that Jesus was not God and that he had not risen from the dead. He believed whole-heartedly in what he thought were the teachings of Jesus (as edited by himself), but as moral philosophy, not what most of us would call religion.

A very great many of the posters on this site would agree that this meant he was not a Christian.

While he financially supported a Presbyterian Church, there is ample evidence he did not believe in the doctrines taught by that Church.


18 posted on 01/09/2012 8:47:03 AM PST by Sherman Logan
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To: Sherman Logan

While he financially supported a Presbyterian Church, there is ample evidence he did not believe in the doctrines taught by that Church. . . .

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Yes there is plenty of evidence, nearly all of it published by his detractors during a vicious election campaign.

I have read all the letters he wrote that are still available. It is enlightening reading. In those letters he is mortified that people have accused him of being non-Christian. He wondered in his writings about the physical resurrection of the body of Christ but never denied his divinity.


32 posted on 01/09/2012 10:42:25 AM PST by JAKraig (Surely my religion is at least as good as yours)
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