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	The Jefferson Bible
		Indeed Jefferson's skepticism was so profound that he could not be described as a Christian in the conventional meaning of the word.
		Jefferson did, however, believe in a "superintending power" in the universe, and that Jesus was a great reformer and moral leader.
		For we know that the common law is that system of law which was introduced by the Saxons on their settlement of England, and altered from time to time by proper legislative authority from that time to the date of the Magna Charta, which terminates the period of the common law....
	www.geocities.com /jeffersonbible1 (760 words)

	The Jefferson Bible
		Jefferson's original paste-up job included side-by-side versions of the text in Greek, Latin, French and English, the latter being the King James Version (KJV).
		Certainly, Jefferson, who was fluent in Greek, Latin and French, had these side-by-side versions to guide him to a fuller understanding of the text and did not rely solely on the King James.
		There is no question that, if Jefferson were supervising this project, he would prefer a version that was as accurate as possible, especially if it were to be the only one made available.
	www.angelfire.com /co/JeffersonBible/jeffintr.html (506 words)

	Thomas Jefferson
		Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743-July 4, 1826) is known the world over as the principal author, in 1776 at age 33, of the Declaration of Independence; as author of the Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom instituting separation of church and state in Virginia, passed in 1786; and as third president of the United States, 1801-09.
		Jefferson's earliest writings on religion exhibit a natural theology, a heavy reliance on reason, and the belief that morality comes not from special revelation but from careful attention to the inward moral sense.
		Jefferson's prophetic advancement of human liberty is deeply tainted by his shameful legacy in matters of race.
	www.uua.org /uuhs/duub/articles/thomasjefferson.html (1834 words)

	Thomas Jefferson \| Third President of the United States
		Jefferson was succeeded as president in 1809 by James Madison.
		Thomas Jefferson Papers from the Manuscript Division at the Library of Congress consists of approximately 27,000 documents.
		The Jefferson Bible: Thomas Jefferson believed that the ethical system of Jesus was the finest the world has ever seen.
	www.lucidcafe.com /library/96apr/jefferson.html (1346 words)

	Catholic Culture : Document Library : The Jefferson Bible
		Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence and third President of the United States, was characterized by some of his contemporaries as "the arch-apostle of the cause of irreligion and freethought."
		The so-called Jefferson Bible, or more accurately, The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth, is now the property of the United States National Museum at Washington, having been obtained by purchase in 1895.
		The weight of historical evidence "is abundant to prove Jefferson a deist who shared the views and attitudes in matters of religion that were common to the English deists" of his day.
	www.catholicculture.org /docs/doc_view.cfm?recnum=6040 (4312 words)

	The Jefferson Bible
		In compiling what has come to be called "The Jefferson Bible," he sought to separate those ethical teachings from the religious dogma and other supernatural elements that are intermixed in the account provided by the four Gospels.
		This presentation of The Jefferson Bible offers the text as selected and arranged by Jefferson in two separate editions: one edition uses a revised King James Version of the biblical texts, corrected in accordance with the findings of modern scholarship; the second edition uses the original unrevised KJV.
		The Jefferson Bible is also available in a 161 Kbyte plain text.txt file, which can easily be read in any format that accepts large ASCII text files (such as Wordpad in Windows).
	www.angelfire.com /co/JeffersonBible (681 words)

	Amazon.ca: Jefferson's Bible : The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth : Books: Thomas Jefferson,Forrest Church (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Jefferson was convinced that the authentic message of Jesus could be found only by extracting from the Gospels Jesus' message of absolute love and service, rather than the miracle of the Annunciation, Virgin Birth, or even the Resurrection.
		The Jefferson Bible reprints the english version of The Life And Morals along with an excellent introductory essay by Forrest Church, Unitarian minister and son of Senator Frank Church, and a decent closing essay by Jaroslav Pelikan.
		Jefferson applied reason and science to break the Gospels down to just that which is directly attributed to Jesus Christ, You'll be surprised at how much more you can learn from this book than from the Bible.
	www.amazon.ca /Jeffersons-Bible-Morals-Jesus-Nazareth/dp/0807077143 (2389 words)

	from jesus to christ: jesus many faces: thomas jefferson and his bible
		Jefferson was convinced that the authentic words of Jesus written in the New Testament had been contaminated.
		Jefferson omitted the words that he thought were inauthentic and retained those he believed were original.
		Jefferson's Jesus, modeled on the ideals of the Enlightenment thinkers of his day, bore a striking resemblance to Jefferson himself.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/religion/jesus/jefferson.html (461 words)

	Thomas Jefferson Bible; no miracles, virgin birth, or deity of Chirst (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), the third president of the United States and author of the Declaration of Independence, translated the New Testament into English from the Greek language.
		The Jefferson Bible was an attempt to harmonize the gospels.
		The Jefferson Bible abruptly ends with these words: "Now, in the place where he was crucified, there was a garden; and in the garden a new sepulchre, wherein was never man yet laid.
	www.padfield.com.cob-web.org:8888 /1994/jeff.html (460 words)

	Jefferson rewrote Bible \| LJWorld.com
		The English version has now been reissued as "The Jefferson Bible: The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth." Appropriately, publisher Beacon Press is an arm of the Unitarian Universalist Assn. Jefferson's religious outlook fit the budding Unitarian movement of his day, although he never formally affiliated with it.
		Jefferson did not employ technical study of ancient manuscripts nor newly emerging theories from European liberals about literary sources that might underlie the biblical texts: He simply picked what he liked.
		Jefferson intended the paste-up for his own use only, partly because he felt in principle that religious beliefs were private.
	www.ljworld.com /section/livinglead/story/67047 (751 words)

	The Jefferson Bible At LoveAllPeople.org
		Jefferson also compiled a collection of Bible verses which is now known as "The Jefferson Bible." These verses contain the ethical teachings of Jesus without the religious content of either Judaism or Christianity.
		Jefferson considered these to be the pure teachings of Jesus, and he felt they were best ethical system ever developed.
		Jefferson was able to distinguish clearly in his mind between the Ethics Of Jesus and the Religion Of Christianity.
	patriot.net /users/bmcgin/jeffersonbible.html (564 words)

	Ink 19 :: The Jefferson Bible (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Jefferson, a contemporary and disciple of Rousseau and Voltaire, as well as a closet agnostic, decided to edit the four books of Jesus' life, removing all the mysticism and miracles, and leaving just the Rules for a Good Life.
		If you have read the Bible, Jefferson's rearrangements are disconcerting, with famous passages missing, and no mention of eternity or redemption, and sin reduced from a mortal challenge to God's power, to a mere social slight of your fellow man.
		It explores the ambivalent relation between Jefferson and slavery, as well as his possible relations with a fl female slave, Sally Hemmings.
	www.ink19.com /issues/november2004/printReviews/jeffersonBible.html (347 words)

	Thomas Jefferson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A polymath, Jefferson was an agriculturalist, horticulturist, architect, archaeologist, paleontologist, author, inventor, and the founder of the University of Virginia.
		Jefferson was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence and a contributor to American political and civil culture.
		Jefferson's commitment to equality was expressed in his successful efforts to abolish primogeniture in Virginia, the rule by which the first born son inherited all the land.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thomas_Jefferson (8088 words)

	Jesus Without The Miracles: Thomas Jefferson's Bible and the Gospel of Thomas ERIK REECE / Harper's Magazine v.311, ...
		But Jefferson's severe redaction was probably a retaliatory act, as much as anything, against priests and ministers—"soothsayers and necromancers," Jefferson called them—who had unleashed attacks on his character during the acrimonious presidential election of 1800.
		Jefferson was proposing a country of countrysides, a pastorale in which we would want to live; Hamilton was giving us a nation of factories from i which we would want—perhaps in the end need—to be saved.
		That Thomas Jefferson's version of Christianity actually found a twin gospel—one that included no miracles, no claims of divinity, but only the teachings of Jesus—hidden beneath an Egyptian cliff, and that this ancient gospel was also recorded by a man known as Thomas, makes for a remarkable story.
	www.mindfully.org /Reform/2005/Jesus-Without-Miracles1dec05.htm (5094 words)

	Thinking Man's Bible: Appendix B
		Thomas Jefferson was probably the greatest thinker of the revolutionary period and one of the most influential men in determining the long-term direction of American society.
		Jefferson’s religious views were reviled by the Federalists and the Fundamentalists of his day during the Second Great Awakening.
		Jefferson is known primarily as the author of the Declaration of Independence, the formal statement of justification for the American revolution.
	biblequiz.freeservers.com /PgsTmb/Appxs/appxb.html (7671 words)

	Thomas Jefferson
		Jefferson remained a member of the Episcopal congregation near his home, but removed himself from those available to become godparents, because he was not sufficiently in agreement with the trinitarian theology.
		His work, The Jefferson Bible, was Unitarian in theology.
		For a slightly different analysis (one that slights the fact that the Unitarians were not formally organized into a sect until 1825), see the relevant "Matters of Fact" factsheet at the Monticello website.
	www.famousuus.com /bios/thomas_jefferson.htm (373 words)

	Heritage - Jefferson Bible
		In this volume, published in 1820, Jefferson used excerpts from the New Testaments in four languages to create parallel columns of text recounting the life of Jesus, preserving what he considered to be Christ's authentic actions and statements, eliminating the mysterious and miraculous.
		Jefferson deleted the part of the birth story in which the angel of the Lord appeared to the shepherds.
		"Jefferson's own words explained that his intent for that book was not for it to be a "Bible," but rather for it to be a primer for the Indians on the teachings of Christ (which is why Jefferson titled that work, The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth).
	www.straight-talk.net /heritage/h-jbible.shtml (308 words)

	Jefferson Bible - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		We must dismiss the Platonists and Plotinists, the Stagyrites and Gamalielites, the Eclectics, the Gnostics and Scholastics, their essences and emanations, their logos and demiurgos, aeons and daemons, male and female, with a long train of … or, shall I say at once, of nonsense.
		Jefferson arranged selected verses from the books of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John in chronological order, mingling excerpts from one next to those of another in order to create a single narrative.
		The most complete form Jefferson produced was inherited by his grandson, Thomas Jefferson Randolph, and was published in 1895 by the National Museum in Washington.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jefferson_Bible (673 words)

	Conversations on Morality: On The Jefferson Bible
		Jefferson's compilation is very interesting, and the impact is something quite different from merely reading the Gospel accounts.
		The notion of being forebearing with one's foes was echoed by Jefferson in his first Presidential address, a general distrust of the well-heeled has been a theme of many a democrat (small d) who has followed in Jefferson's wake, and so on.
		Jefferson's attacks are not only on the Trinity but on the Virgin Birth and Resurrection, both of which (especially the Resurrection) are crucial to Paul's theology.
	eyler.freeservers.com /JeffWritings/jbconv03.htm (2973 words)

	Official State Bible of Alabama (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The State Bible was purchased for use by the Executive Department in 1853.
		In 1861, when Jefferson Davis took the oath of office as President of the provisional government of the Confederate States of America, he also used the State Bible.
		The Bible is kept in the Alabama Department of Archives and History.
	www.archives.state.al.us /emblems/st_bible.html (230 words)

	Thomas Jefferson's version of the Bible is distributed to members of Congress -- Beliefnet.com
		It seems that distributing the Jefferson Bible to new members of Congress every other year was a tradition from 1904 until 1957, when the practice quietly stopped.
		It is a statement of Christian morality." Jefferson, Patton said, was searching for a "pure Christianity" that elevated the moral principles contained in Jesus' life and the parables he told.
		The controversial religious convictions of Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln.
	www.beliefnet.com /story/161/story_16121_1.html (434 words)

	Thomas Jefferson Bible; no miracles, virgin birth, or deity of Chirst
		While I respect Thomas Jefferson and his place in American history, his view of the Bible was unusual.
		Jefferson had no respect for the writings of the apostle Paul, and only marginal regard for the four gospel writers.
		In The Jefferson Bible you will find no reference to Christ fulfilling prophecy, or the Spirit of the Lord being upon Him.
	www.padfield.com /1994/jeff.html (457 words)

	Thomas Jefferson quotes
		Although Jefferson believed in a Creator, his concept of it resembled that of the god of deism (the term "Nature's God" used by deists of the time).
		And they believe rightly; for I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. But this is all they have to fear from me: and enough too in their opinion, and this is the cause of their printing lying pamphlets against me..
		Jefferson aimed at laissez-faire liberalism in the name of individual freedom, He felt that any form of government control, not only of religion, but of individual mercantilism consisted of tyranny.
	www.nobeliefs.com /jefferson.htm (1495 words)

	Amazon.com: The Jefferson Bible: Books: Thomas Jefferson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It is surprising that the naturalist Jefferson allowed Jesus to go on saying that the mustard seed is the biggest of all seeds and that it grows into a plant bigger than all other herbs.
		It is indeed a shame that Jefferson's admiration for the ethical system proposed by Jesus includes all of his verses that warn about being burned or tortured forever.
		I have nothing but respect for Jefferson on having the guts in his time to think for himself and see the logical fallacies in believing in the super natural aspects of the gospels.
	www.amazon.com /Jefferson-Bible-Thomas/dp/0807077143 (1961 words)

	History & Genealogy - County Records - Jefferson County Genealogical Fact Sheet
		Jefferson County, 1813-1897, 1914 (Microfilm Manuscript #789, 1 reel)
		Jefferson County, 1898-1963 (Microfilm Manuscript #1414, 1 reel)
		Jefferson County, 1804, 1819-1877 (Microfilm Manuscript #162, 1 reel)
	www.tennessee.gov /tsla/history/county/factjefferson.htm (1010 words)

	Thomas Jefferson: Enemy of Christianity? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Jefferson did not object to the teaching of "general religion." He believed the Constitution prohibited the advancement of a specific sect.
		Jefferson's views on the existence of God (whatever they were) were not representative of the Founding Fathers as a whole, and his beliefs were not incorporated into the Constitution.
		They quoted Jefferson's letter to the Danbury Baptists in support of their judgment that sincerely-held non-Christian religious belief does not give one constitutionally-protected freedom to commit acts which are made criminal in a Christian nation.
	members.aol.com /EndTheWall/TJ02.htm (10324 words)

	The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth
		Compiled by the Unites States of America's third president, Thomas Jefferson, around 1819-1820, The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth is a look at the Four Gospels of the Christian New Testament through the eyes of a rationalist.
		The work is little more than a rearrangement of the Gospels, with numerous miracles and references to Jesus's divinity as well as redundancies between the Gospel writers cut out.
		Jefferson did add a table of contents to his book, which is reproduced here, and added parallel translations in three other languages beside the English translation.
	nothingistic.org /library/jefferson/jesus (223 words)

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