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Jefferson Tells the Truth
Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 4:22 am
by _gdemetz
Here's an interesting quote from Thomas Jefferson:
He stated that he looked forward to "the prospect of a restoration of primitive Christianity. I must leave it to younger athletes to encounter and lop off the false branches which have been engrafted into it by the mythologies of the middle and modern ages."
Re: Jefferson Tells the Truth
Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 4:35 am
by _Morley
gdemetz wrote:Here's an interesting quote from Thomas Jefferson:
He stated that he looked forward to "the prospect of a restoration of primitive Christianity. I must leave it to younger athletes to encounter and lop off the false branches which have been engrafted into it by the mythologies of the middle and modern ages."
Jefferson's version of Christianity was primitive, indeed. It didn't include any of the miracles worked by the Jesus of
The New Testament.
Re: Jeffderson Tells the Truth
Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 5:57 am
by _moksha
George, what impression do you think Thomas Jefferson would have formed of the LDS Church?
Re: Jeffderson Tells the Truth
Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 9:27 am
by _gdemetz
Personally, I believe that he would have noticed many similarities such as the laying on of hands for the gift of the Holy Ghost, etc., and looked into it seriously.
Re: Jeffderson Tells the Truth
Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 1:01 pm
by _Morley
gdemetz wrote:Personally, I believe that he would have noticed many similarities such as the laying on of hands for the gift of the Holy Ghost, etc., and looked into it seriously.
What evidence do you have for this?
Re: Jefferson Tells the Truth
Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 1:16 pm
by _subgenius
Morley wrote:Jefferson's version of Christianity was primitive, indeed. It didn't include any of the miracles worked by the Jesus of The New Testament.
what evidence do you have of this "exclusion"?
Re: Jeffderson Tells the Truth
Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 1:19 pm
by _subgenius
gdemetz wrote:Here's an interesting quote from Thomas Jefferson:
He stated that he looked forward to "the prospect of a restoration of primitive Christianity. I must leave it to younger athletes to encounter and lop off the false branches which have been engrafted into it by the mythologies of the middle and modern ages."
we has a
LESSON in Sunday school similar to this idea, did we not?
The allegory of the olive trees from book of Jacob.
Re: Jeffderson Tells the Truth
Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 1:23 pm
by _Tobin
http://www.slate.com/articles/life/faithbased/2012/03/sally_hemings_mormon_and_married_to_jefferson_proxy_sealings_raise_difficult_questions_for_lds_church_.html <- Right here.
Didn't you know that Thomas Jefferson is a Mormon? Well, apparently you missed the memo. He's even purported to be sealed to Sally Hemings! I don't know if this is true or not. But, given that the Church is out of control is this area, I don't doubt it.
Re: Jefferson Tells the Truth
Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 1:41 pm
by _Morley
subgenius wrote:Morley wrote:Jefferson's version of Christianity was primitive, indeed. It didn't include any of the miracles worked by the Jesus of The New Testament.
what evidence do you have of this "exclusion"?
Jefferson Bible.
Re: Jeffderson Tells the Truth
Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 4:03 pm
by _Albion
I think Jefferson was far too intelligent, intellectual and worldly wise to have been taken in by a charlatan such as Joseph Smith. Just an opinion.