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Never said he was. Only that his beliefs in a Creator line up with the Christian belief of a Creator on the following core beliefs.It means JEFFERSON is not a Christian.
Based on Jefferson’s Word and Life WORK can you offer evidence that Jefferson believed in your mythical God of Abraham?In the existence of a universal creator under whom the God of Abraham was but a human myth.
See post #321Based on Jefferson’s Word and Life WORK can you offer evidence that Jefferson believed in your mythical God of Abraham?
Couldn't care less how you need to rationalize it.Based on Jefferson’s Word and Life WORK can you offer evidence that Jefferson believed in your mythical God of Abraham?
Never said he was. Only that his beliefs in a Creator line up with the Christian belief of a Creator on the following core beliefs.
- The Creator exists
- The Creator created the natural world
- The Creator is moralistic
- The Creator is providential
- The Creator is the source of natural rights
What’s supposed to be in Post 321See post #321
Of course you cannot Saint Ding. You are intellectually stuck in your irrational muckCouldn't care less how you need to rationalize it
The God of Abraham is most definitely a “he” “father” isn’t it?"A" Creator is better than "the" Creator because we do not know what it/she/he is.
See post #321But Jefferson does not believe that the creator in Thomas Aquinas’s mind as expressed exists, except in revelation fraud and in human error to accept and perpetuate a myth known as Judeo Christian religion.
Jefferson is not a Christian. Jefferson is not a Christian for being in line with any Christian Core Beliefs because to Jefferson all organized Christian religion, has no core beliefs that are based on fraud perpetuation of a myth.
Jefferson cannot be in line with a single
Christian myth because christianity only starts at myth. and that seems to be the point you will not except.
Universal truth of God and natural rights belong to all of us. That’s our heritage. Jefferson and myself do not want that heritage filtered through a Christian heritage based on myth in perpetuation of the lie that America was founded as a Christian nation.
But that's not how they saw it. Read the links. Nature's God, God of Nature or as Jefferson said, "Architect of the Universe.""A" Creator is better than "the" Creator because we do not know what it/she/he is.
What belief would that be?ding put his belief before evidence, yes
Sure, they did.But that's not how they saw it. Read the links. Nature's God, God of Nature or as Jefferson said, "Architect of the Universe."
You prove it all the time. The evidence is there. You provide it daily. And we all know it.What belief would that be?
What evidence would that be?
Jefferson believed in the "Architect of the Universe." . Aquinas believed in the “God who revealed himself to Abraham as recorded in the Holy Bible. Jefferson considered the Holy Bible to be a corruption of the simple message of a fallible and mortal human teacher named Jesus.But that's not how they saw it. Read the links. Nature's God, God of Nature or as Jefferson said, "Architect of the Universe."
www.rawstory.com
One of the items that I've disagreed with over the years on this board has been the issue relating to our founding fathers and Christianity. For a while now I've not bought into the idea that America was founded as a Christian nation. Besides a select few sermons I catch each week, I also enjoy listening to the weekly podcast, 5 Minutes in Church History. Got around to yesterday's edition and in it I believe is reliable picture of Christianity during the establishment of country, especially in the period during the writing of the Constitution.
The Second Great Awakening Overlook
An excerpt:
Well, if we look at the 1790s, we see that it was an age of reason, as the book title has it, by Thomas Payne. And at the very beginnings of this young American republic, there was a strong sense of secularism. Historians have documented that church attendance in the decade of the 1790s in America was in the single digits, percentage-wise.
It was not only an age of secularism, it was also an age of deism. These old congregational churches in New England were quickly careening into what was called unitarian universalism, and neither one of those are good doctrines, and put them together, it’s really bad.
