Thomas Jefferson—Unbeliever
“In whom the god of
this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light
of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto
them.” —2nd Corinthians 4:4
I was
greatly saddened to learn that Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) was NOT a Christian. Jefferson made so many wonderful
patriotic quotes concerning freedom and the dangers
of the central bank. I was amazed as I watched a PBS documentary on the
life of Thomas Jefferson. He was a scientist first, a farmer second and
politician last. Jefferson was a witty inventor.
Jefferson was an accomplished architect. George
Washington and Jefferson laid out the city of Washington D.C., clearly in an
occult manner. Both men were high-level Freemasons. Jefferson's Monticello
estate was superb. He also designed the state house for Virginia.
It is tragic that such a brilliant man would be
so foolish as to reject the Word of God. I realize that there are historical
writings which reveal that Thomas Jefferson claimed to be a Christian,
including an actual photo of Jefferson's handwritten statement “I
am a real Christian.” Albeit, just as most professed Christians today
are not true born-again believers, the following quotes from Mr.
Jefferson make it quite clear that he was NO Christian:
“And the
day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme
being as his father in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the
fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter. But may we
hope that the dawn of reason and freedom of thought in these United
States will do away with this artificial scaffolding, and restore to us
the primitive and genuine doctrines of this most venerated reformer of
human errors.” —Thomas Jefferson, Letter to
John Adams, April 11, 1823
Here you clearly learn that Jefferson denied
Jesus' virgin birth, and so denied the Son of God. Jefferson was an
incredible orator, admirably patriotic and certainly spoke the truth about
the evils of the central banks. Sadly, Jefferson's writings reveal him to be
no Christian . . .
"It does me no injury for my neighbor to say
there are 20 gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my
leg."
"History I believe furnishes no example of a
priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the
lowest grade of ignorance, of which their political as well as religious
leaders will always avail themselves for their own purpose. " — Thomas
Jefferson to Baron von Humboldt, 1813
"Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the
introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and
imprisoned. What has been the effect of this coercion? To make one half
the world fools and the other half hypocrites" –Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia, 1782.
"Rogueries, absurdities and
untruths were perpetrated upon the teachings of Jesus by a large band of
dupes and importers led by Paul, the first great corrupter of the teaching
of Jesus."
"The clergy converted the simple teachings of
Jesus into an engine for enslaving mankind and adulterated by artificial
constructions into a contrivance to filch wealth and power to
themselves...these clergy, in fact, constitute the real Anti-Christ."
"I do not find in orthodox Christianity one
redeeming feature."
SOURCE: Thomas Jefferson, U.S. President,
author, scientist, architect, educator, and diplomat
I admire a mechanical contraption that Jefferson
built that records a duplicate letter as you're writing. He always had
unfinished projects that he was working on, never a dull moment, working
around his home mansion. Jefferson didn't like politics. He was an amazing
person and suffered many sorrows to his soul, dying a broken-hearted man. He
referred to death as “THE HEALING GRAVE.” People back then had genuine
feelings, loyalty to principle and fear of God.
Today, people are soul dead, hard-hearted, without
natural affection, cruel and Godless (Romans 3:18). Jefferson, as did most
great men back then, wrote thousands of letters throughout his lifetime. I
hate TV and radio, which has ruined the world. Hardly anyone writes letters
anymore. And the literary beauty of the letters back then are incredible,
expressing the sincerest feelings of their soul. I would have loved to have
lived during those early days of America. People were real back then. It is
a shame that unsaved people back then were more sincere than many phony
Christians today.
Thomas Jefferson was one of America's greatest
patriots. Our founding fathers, if they could come back today with the power
to execute justice, would have most of congress and Washington D.C. hanging
by their necks by sundown. Even so, come, Lord Jesus! END
The following well-prepared news piece is
from PBS. U.S. President Thomas Jefferson was convinced that he could
improve on God to write the Bible, so he butchered the Words of God.,
Thomas Jefferson And His
Heathen Bible
The 'Jefferson
Bible' was Thomas Jefferson's attempt to extract an authentic Jesus from
the Gospel accounts.
by Marilyn
Mellowes
The White House, Washington, D.C. 1804.
Thomas
Jefferson was frustrated. It was not the burdens of office that bothered
him. It was his Bible.
Jefferson was
convinced that the authentic words of Jesus written in the New Testament
had been contaminated. Early Christians, overly eager to make their
religion appealing to the pagans, had obscured the words of Jesus with
the philosophy of the ancient Greeks and the teachings of Plato. These
"Platonists" had thoroughly muddled Jesus' original message. Jefferson
assured his friend and rival, John Adams, that the authentic words of
Jesus were still there. The task, as he put it, was one of
abstracting what is really his from the
rubbish in which it is buried, easily distinguished by its lustre from
the dross of his biographers, and as separate from that as the diamond
from the dung hill.
With the
confidence and optimistic energy characteristic of the Enlightenment,
Jefferson proceeded to dig out the diamonds. Candles burning late at
night, his quill pen scratching "too hastily" as he later admitted,
Jefferson composed a short monograph titled The Philosophy of Jesus
of Nazareth. The subtitle explains that the work is "extracted from
the account of his life and the doctrines as given by Matthew, Mark,
Luke & John." In it, Jefferson presented what he understood was the true
message of Jesus.
Jefferson set
aside his New Testament research, returning to it again in the summer of
1820. This time, he completed a more ambitious work, The Life and
Morals of Jesus of Nazareth Extracted Textually from the Gospels in
Greek, Latin, French and English. The text of the New Testament
appears in four parallel columns in four languages. Jefferson omitted
the words that he thought were inauthentic and retained those he
believed were original. The resulting work is commonly known as the
"Jefferson Bible."
Who was the
Jesus that Jefferson found? He was not the familiar figure of the New
Testament. In Jefferson's Bible, there is no account of the beginning
and the end of the Gospel story. There is no story of the annunciation,
the virgin birth or the appearance of the angels to the shepherds. The
resurrection is not even mentioned.
Jefferson
discovered a Jesus who was a great Teacher of Common Sense. His message
was the morality of absolute love and service. Its authenticity was not
dependent upon the dogma of the Trinity or even the claim that Jesus was
uniquely inspired by God. Jefferson saw Jesus as
a man, of illegitimate birth, of a
benevolent heart, (and an) enthusiastic mind, who set out without
pretensions of divinity, ended in believing them, and was punished
capitally for sedition by being gibbeted according to the Roman law.
In short, Mr.
Jefferson's Jesus, modeled on the ideals of the Enlightenment thinkers
of his day, bore a striking resemblance to Jefferson himself.
SOURCE:
Thomas Jefferson Wrote His Own Bible, Which Eliminated Christ's Virgin
Birth And Deity
“One
man with courage is a majority.”
—Thomas Jefferson
“The tree
of liberty must be refreshed from time to time
with the blood of
patriots and tyrants.”
—Thomas
Jefferson
The
Need for Morals and Virtue in Society
America has
never been a Christian nation . . .
Thomas Jefferson
put it most poignantly:
No
government can continue good but under the control of the people; and
people so demoralized [lacking good morals] and depraved as to be
incapable of exercising a wholesome control, their reformation must be
taken up ab incunabulis. Their
minds [must] be informed by education what is right and what wrong, be
encouraged in habits of virtue and deterred from those of vice by the
dread of punishments, proportioned indeed, but irremissible. In all
cases, follow truth as the only safe guide and eschew error which
bewilders us in one false consequence after another in endless
succession. These are the inculcations necessary to render the people a
sure basis for the structure of order and good government. – Thomas
Jefferson to John Adams (1819. ME 15:234)
Religion, as well as reason, confirms
the soundness of those principles on which our government has been
founded and its rights asserted.
SOURCE: Thomas Jefferson to P. H. Wendover, (1815. ME 14:283)
To put it in
today's language, it was Jefferson's conviction that by nature, people are
depraved, immoral and lacking self-control. He therefore believed that the
only way that the American style of government could be maintained was to
instruct everyone in right and wrong from birth, and train them toward good
habits and virtue through disciplinary consequences. Political
self-government, he said, requires that citizens be raised to despise
dishonesty and embrace personal integrity through instruction and repeated
admonitions. Religion and reason, he said, form the basis for our nation's
foundations.
Thomas Jefferson
and the other founders built our nation upon Christian principles and
ethics, and warned that America would morally disintegrate if it forsook its
"religious" roots. Although such a foundation could not make our nation
"Christian," we would be wise to listen to our predecessors and embrace our
Creator and the Bible that communicates how to walk in morality and virtue.
SOURCE:
America has
never been a Christian nation
The Truth About America's
Masonic Founding
By Webservant David J. Stewart |
July 2019
Unsaved
reprobate, prolific author and 33rd degree Freemason Manly P. Hall
(1901-1990) acknowledges that the United States was founded by Freemasons
from its very inception, and plotted beforehand in Europe, who implemented
the symbol of The Great Pyramid to represent their secret plans for
America...
Not only were many of the
founders of the United States Government Masons, but they received aid
from a secret and august body existing in Europe, which helped them to
establish this country for a
peculiar and particular purpose known only to the initiated few. The
Great Seal is the signature of this exalted body—unseen
and for the most part unknown—and
the unfinished pyramid upon its reverse side is a trestleboard setting
forth symbolically the task to the accomplishment of which the United
States Government was dedicated from the day of its inception.
—Prolific author and 33rd degree freemason Manly P. Hall,
'The Secret Teachings of All Ages,'
p. 91.
Sadly, many Christians have become offended and
angry at me for telling the truth about our founding fathers, as if I am
being disloyal to the country I am a natural born citizen of. I am being
100% patriotic to tell the truth! Although our nation was clearly founded
upon Christian principles in the early colonies who migrated from Europe, it
is also true that Luciferian Satanists were in control of our government
from the very beginning, which only an ignorant person of history would dare
deny. Why should this be so surprising? We see in the Old Testament in Job
1:7 that Satan abode in the presence of God's throne. Good and evil have
always co-existed, as arch enemies. Wherever there is good, you will find
evil lurking close by; and wherever you find evil, there is the potential
for good. According to Revelation 2:13b, the New Testament church is
“where Satan dwelleth.” So it should not come as a shock that despite
the United States being the citadel of Christianity for the past 200 plus
years, it has also been The Great Satan! END
False Quotes by Jefferson
In fairness to Thomas Jefferson, some of the
modern quotes attributed to him are false. The following quote is
not found among the writings of Thomas Jefferson; therefore, it
should be considered false...
“Christianity is the most perverted
system that ever shone on man.”
Here's another false quote:
“I have examined all
the known superstitions of the world, and I do not find in our
particular superstition of Christianity one redeeming feature. They
are all alike founded on fables and mythology. Millions of
innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of
Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned. What
has been the effect of this coercion? To make one half the world
fools and the other half hypocrites; to support roguery and
error all over the earth.”
If you look at Jefferson's notes on the State of Virginia, you will
see that only some of this quote was truly penned by the
hand of Jefferson. Only the part that is underlined is true
Jefferson. The rest is false.
Here's another popular quote, where only some
of it is actually Jefferson. Again, the underlined part is
true Jefferson. Even the true part is only paraphrase, not word for
word.
“Christianity...(has
become) the most perverted system that ever shone on man. ...Rogueries,
absurdities and untruths were perpetrated upon the teachings of
Jesus by a large band of dupes and importers led by Paul, the first
great corrupter of the teaching of Jesus.”
This whole quote is false...
“The Christian god can easily be
pictured as virtually the same god as the many ancient gods of past
civilizations. The Christian god is a three headed monster; cruel,
vengeful and capricious. If one wishes to know more of this raging,
three headed beast-like god, one only needs to look at the caliber
of people who say they serve him. They are always of two classes:
fools and hypocrites.”
None of this means that I believe Jefferson
was a Christian. He, of course, said he was a Christian; but did not
believe in the virgin birth, the Godhead, miracles, the resurrection,
et cetera. Thomas Jefferson was an admitted Christ-rejecter. No
truly born-again Christian would deny the Godhead, virgin birth and
resurrection of Christ. These are critical Biblical teachings, called
the
Doctrine of Christ. Thomas Jefferson denied the Doctrine of
Christ.
I have provided these false quotes by
Jefferson in order to be truthful and fair. My heart's desire behind my
entire online ministry has always been to preach THE TRUTH. My goal has
never been to criticize or tear anyone down, God forbid. The Bible
commands believers to speak evil of no man (Titus 3:2); but this does
not mean that we should not speak out against evil. God commands us to
speak out against evil (Ephesians 5:11; Titus 1:10-13; Romans 16:17).
Thus, I do not condemn Thomas Jefferson in any way, nor any other man,
for we are all guilty sinners in God's eyes (Romans 3:23).
It is tragic that most professed Christian
believers are false sheep. Most people who claim to be Christians have
churchianity, but not Christianity. Many people believe in God, as do
the devils, and tremble (James 2:19). Salvation is found only in the
precious name of Jesus Christ, the Son of God (John 20:31).
END
Faith of Our Founding Fathers?
Hitler claimed to be a Christian; but was not. President George W. Bush claims to be a Christian; but is not. Just
because someone claims to be a “Christian” means nothing if they don't
believe in their heart (Romans 10:9-10). Salvation is repenting toward God
by faith in His Son to be forgiven of your sins.
Jesus said that men would be known by their
fruits... “Ye shall know them by their fruits . . .” (Matthew 7:16). Although
it's impossible to determine if a person is saved merely by outward
observation, we can know for certain by the words they speak. Thomas Jefferson denied the Godhead and called the Bible a dunghill... something no true Christian would ever do. Though an educated and
brilliant thinker; Jefferson was NOT a
Christian!
“As we said before, so say I
now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have
received, let him be accursed.” —Galatians 1:9
"That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and
things in earth, and things under the earth" —Philippians 2:10
