On December 13 Thomson, sent Jefferson a copy of his translation of the Old Testament from the Greek—providing evidence once again that our third president was a serious student of the Bible. Jefferson replied on Christmas day saying: “I have dipped into it at the few moments of leisure which my vocations permit, and …
Contrary to the modern notion of Thomas Jefferson, a key founding father, as a lifelong skeptic, the fact is that he attended churches (orthodox ones) regularly, when available to him. Furthermore, he was an avid Bible reader. All that said, near the end of his life, he did harbor (privately) …
Contrary to the myth of Jefferson the lifelong skeptic was the real Thomas Jefferson. He was a professing Christian who later in life came to doubt key Christian doctrines. Nonetheless, he was friendly to many Christians throughout his life. As president, he was a hero to many of the evangelicals …