The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth: The Jefferson Bible Review

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(More customer reviews)"The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth; The Jefferson Bible" is Thomas Jefferson's Unitarian idea of what Jesus said and believed. Jefferson's idea was simple, but deeply meaningful. Unitarians believe there is one God and that the notion of a 'Trinity' is mistaken. As a Unitarian, Jefferson had the idea of taking the four Gospels, as they were, and cutting out all mention of miracles or of Jesus being God. Jeferson bought two copies of the four Gospels and cut out and pasted together only those passages that quoted Jesus and showed his life and he discarded any direct mention of Jesus as God or anything about miracles. There was no mention of virgin birth or of resurection. Jefferson rearranged the passages, keeping similar themes together, in a logical fashion. What emerged was a book of sayings from a man, who was a philosopher and a teacher and who spoke to everyone about belief in God and moral behavior.
If one reads this short book, one finds, as Jefferson did, the teachings of Jesus, stripped of most of the ideas of others. Jefferson's idea had been very simple. However, the book is a wonderful teaching tool, that focuses on Jesus, separate from all that was not important to Jesus, the philosopher and teacher.
I strongly recommend this book to anyone interested in what Jesus taught, rather than what the various Christian churches teach, today. If you are a Trinitarian Christian (Roman Catholic, Orthodox Christian, or Protestant), I believe that this book will not discourage your own faith, but will help you to understand Jesus and his own teachings.

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The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth: The Jefferson Bible, written by legendary author Thomas Jefferson is widely considered to be one of the greatest classic and historical texts of all time. This great classic will surely attract a whole new generation of readers. For many, The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth: The Jefferson Bible is required reading for various courses and curriculums. And for others who simply enjoy reading timeless pieces of classic literature, this gem by Thomas Jefferson is highly recommended. Published by Classic Books International and beautifully produced, The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth: The Jefferson Bible would make an ideal gift and it should be a part of everyone's personal library.

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The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth Extracted Textually from the Gospels: The Jefferson Bible Review

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(More customer reviews)I was surprised to see what the product description fails to mention: this book wasn't simply published at the turn of the 20th century. Rather, if you look at an original first edition, at the bottom of the title page, it states as follows:
Washington
Government Printing Office
1904
This book wasn't simply published, it was published by the Congress of the United States of America, for the express purpose of being given to each freshman member of both houses of Congress.
Disagree with it if you wish, that is the right of every American, but the 1904 Congress were following the wishes of Thomas Jefferson, one of the founding fathers that so many today insist was a godless, deist, atheist of a man. And yet he wished for every freshman member of Congress to have in their possession the words of Christ. What does that say about the original intent of what Jefferson himself coined as 'the separation of church and state' in 1802?
Please, I would urge all Americans not only to read this brilliant collection, edited by Jefferson himself, but also the complete, original, unabridged writings of one of our most profound, brilliant, intelligent, and spiritual founding fathers and former presidents, Thomas Jefferson. So many questions about our country today, so many questions about the original intent upon the founding of our republic, can be answered by reading his original words. But more importantly, there's so much we can learn from him about what it means to be an American, from one of our greatest forefathers, one of our greatest examples of what it means to be a truly remarkable, intelligent, loving, tolerant, respectful, yet proud American citizen.

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In the early nineteenth century Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United States and principal author of the Declaration of Independence, conceived the idea of extracting a gospel purified of what he saw as extraneous philosophical, mythological, and theological elements. To do so, he took verses from the four canonical gospels and arranged them into a single narrative, focusing on the actual words of Jesus. This work was never published during Jefferson's lifetime, but was inherited by his grandson and printed for the first time in the early twentieth century. The original bound manuscript, often referred to as "the Jefferson Bible," is held by the United States National Museum in Washington.

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