Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Thomas Jefferson’s Drastic Bible Edit

In a recent article of the Boston Globe, the idea and intentions behind Thomas Jefferson's version of the Bible which most have never heard of were detailed.
http://articles.boston.com/2011-12-25/ideas/30550172_1_philanthropy-invention-corporate-mind-set/2




The article states that:

"Jefferson wasn’t a conventional Christian, but a Deist--he believed that, though God had created the universe, he had set it up in an ordered way and then stepped aside to let it run without divine interference. Jefferson valued the teachings of Jesus, but firmly rejected the idea of his divinity."

"So using a razor, he went through the Bible, excising the wisdom he thought worth preserving from all of the miraculous and supernatural occurrences. Then he pasted the parts he’d selected into a blank book.
He gave his new book a pointedly secular title: “The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth.” Because Jefferson left out Jesus’ resurrection, it ends with his death. The wisdom, he wrote to a friend, was “as easily distinguished” from the superstition “as diamonds in a dunghill.”


Revelation 22:18
For 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.

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