The book DOUBTING THOMAS by Mark Beliles and Jerry Newcombe documents 2 overall points: 1) Jefferson was not a lifelong skeptic, and 2) he did not believe in a secular state—that there is to be a separation of God and government. For decades, our third president had a friendship with …
It is not well known that early in life Thomas Jefferson, as a layman, helped found an evangelical church. This was a year after he wrote the Declaration of Independence, and it was the same year, 1777, that he wrote the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom. As a layman, in …
Thomas Jefferson was not a lifelong skeptic. Our book, DOUBTING THOMAS, documents that. But he did harbor serious doubts about key Christian doctrines later in life. Furthermore, it is not accurate to say that Jefferson believed in the strict separation of church and state, the way the ACLU and …
[Pictured: photo by Jerry Newcombe of the Charlottesville courthouse, historic site of the evangelical church that Jefferson helped organize as a layman in the late 1770’s] Jefferson was not a lifelong skeptic. Nor did he believe that God should be banished from the public square. By today’s standards, he might …
The book, DOUBTING THOMAS by Mark Beliles and Jerry Newcombe, shows that our third president and founding father Thomas Jefferson was not a lifelong skeptic and was not someone who wanted to banish God from the public square. The Thomas Jefferson of history was not the Thomas Jefferson of the …
Jefferson certainly had a lot of doubts about key Christian doctrines later in life. But he was not a lifelong skeptic. Nor did he believe that faith had no place in the public square. The following are excerpted from the book by Mark Beliles and Jerry Newcombe, Doubting Thomas, and they deal …
Thomas Jefferson was not a lifelong skeptic…although later in life, he privately expressed some doubts about core Christian doctrines. Our book, DOUBING THOMAS, shows that he went through several phases of belief or the lack thereof through his long life. The book also shows that he did not believe in …
[File image] There are two main points to our book, DOUBTING THOMAS (co-authored by Charlottesville pastor, Dr. Mark Beliles and me). 1) Jefferson was not a lifelong skeptic. When he was most productive and helpful to the country, he was from all outward appearances a believing Christian. 2) Regardless of …
Our book, DOUBTING THOMAS by Mark Beliles and me, documents that Thomas Jefferson was not a lifelong skeptic. When he was most useful to the country, he was by all outward appearances a professing Christian. In fact, in 1777, on his own time, as a layman, he helped found and …
[Pictured: founding father Benjamin Rush, mentioned in this blogpost.] Earlier in his life, when he was of great use to his country, Thomas Jefferson was by all outward appearances a believing Christian. Later, he came to harbor doubts about core Christian doctrines. But our book, Doubting Thomas, documents that he was not a …