Dan,
<<The whole history of these books [the Gospels] is so defective and doubtful that it seems vain to attempt minute enquiry into it: and such tricks have been played with their text, and with the texts of other books relating to them, that we have a right, from that cause, to entertain much doubt what parts of them are genuine.In the New Testament there is internal evidence that parts of it have proceeded from an extraordinary man; and that other parts are of the fabric of very inferior minds. It is as easy to separate those parts, as to pick out diamonds from dunghills.
-Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Adams, January 24, 1814 members.icanect.net
"You say you are a Calvinist. I am not. I am of a sect by myself, as far as I know."
-Thomas Jefferson, letter to Ezra Stiles Ely, June 25, 1819-- same url |
