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Hidden Faith (Roman Catholic -- Jesuit controlled) of The Founding Fathers -- Deists, Masons -- of the United States of America . . . .htm
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Capitol Tour David Barton HD, America's “forgotten” history – In God We Trust . . .
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In the Supreme Court itself, Moses and his law on display
VI. Religion and the Federal Government
The Jefferson Bible
It is thought that Jefferson prepared what is referred to as the "Jefferson Bible" in 1820. In this volume, Jefferson used excerpts from New Testaments in four languages to create parallel columns of text recounting the life of Jesus, preserving what he considered to be Christ's authentic actions and statements, eliminating the mysterious and miraculous. (Taking away from Holy Scripture, the Holy Bible, which is Commanded by the Lord Jesus Christ of Nazareth – NOT to do, or all the curses in the Holy Bible would be upon them, and is upon Thomas Jefferson). He began his account with Luke's second chapter, deleting the first in which the angel Gabriel announced to the Virgin Mary that she would give birth to the Messiah by the Holy Spirit. On the pages seen here, Jefferson deleted the part of the birth story in which the angel of the Lord appeared to the shepherds. The text ends with the crucifixion and burialand omits any resurrection appearance. (Thomas Jefferson was a good “Sadducee” . . .).
Luke 20:27
27Then came to him certain of the Sadducees, which deny that there is any resurrection; and they asked him,
Acts 3:14-15
14 But ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you;
15 And killed the Prince of life, whom God hath raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses.
John 11:24-26
24 Martha saith unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day.
25 Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:
26 And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?
Acts 17:18
18Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoicks, encountered him. And some said, What will this babbler say? other some,He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods: because he preached unto them Jesus, and the resurrection.
Acts 17:32
32And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked: and others said, We will hear thee again of this matter.
Acts 23:6
6But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Men and brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee: of the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question.
Acts 23:8
8For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, neither angel, nor spirit: but the Pharisees confess both.
Acts 24:15
15And have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.
Romans 1:4
4And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead:
Romans 6:5
5For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:
1 Corinthians 15:12-13
12Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?
13But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen:
1 Corinthians 15:14
14 And if Christ be not risen,then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain.
1 Corinthians 15:17
7 And if Christ be not raised,your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.
1 Peter 1:3
3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
1 Peter 3:21
21The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:
The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us.doc
The Jefferson Bible, or The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth as it is formally titled, was a book constructed by Thomas Jefferson in the latter years of his life by cutting and pasting numerous sections from various Bibles as extractions of the doctrine of Jesus. Jefferson's composition excluded sections of theNew Testamentcontaining supernatural aspects as well as perceived misinterpretations he believed had been added by the Four Evangelists.[1], but others reject this claim, stating that his 1804 work was simply intended to instruct Native Americans about Jesus' moral teaching [2][3] while his second work was for his own personal study.[4]
Note: The part directly above which states . . . , “ . . .but others reject this claim, stating that his 1804 work was simply intended to instruct Native Americans about Jesus' moral teaching [2][3] while his second work was for his own personal study.”
Is Simply NOT true. Thomas Jefferson was a Deist, antiChristian, as were most of the “founding fathers,” including George Washington.
How Thomas Jefferson Created His Own Bible
Thanks to an extensive restoration process, the public can now see how Jefferson created his own version of the Scripture
(Indeed, Thomas Jefferson created his “own bible” by cutting out words and phrases, and whole chapters, while he made the claim that the New Testament writers were “idiots.”)
Deism ( i/ˈdiː.ɪzəm/[1][2] or /ˈdeɪ.ɪzəm/) is a philosophy which holds that reason and observation of the natural world, without the need for organized religion, can determine that the universe is the product of a creator. According to deists, the deity seldom, if ever, intervenes in human affairs or suspends the natural laws of the universe. Deists typically reject supernatural events such as prophecy and miracles, tending instead to assert that a god (or "the Supreme Architect") does not alter the universe by intervening in it. This idea is also known as the clockwork universe theory, in which a god designs and builds a universe, but steps aside to let it run on its own.
Deism became more prominent in the 17th and 18th centuries during the Age of Enlightenment—especially in Britain, France, Germany and America among intellectuals raised as Christianswho found they could not believe insupernatural miracles, the inerrancy of the Holy Scriptures (the Holy Bible), or the Trinity, but who did believe in one God.Deistic ideas also influenced several leaders of the American and French Revolutions.
“ . . . but who did believe in one God.”
James 2:19
19Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.
Thomas Jefferson accomplished a more limited goal in 1804 with "The Philosophy of Jesus of Nazareth", the predecessor to The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth.[6] He described it in a letter to John Adams dated 13 October 1813:
In extracting the pure principles which he taught, we should have to strip off the artificial vestments in which they have been muffled by priests, who have travestied them into various forms, as instruments of riches and power to themselves. We must dismiss the Platonists and Plotinists, the Stagyrites and Gamalielites, the Eclectics, the Gnostics and Scholastics, their essences and emanations, their logos and demiurges, aeons and daemons, male and female, with a long train of … or, shall I say at once, of nonsense. We must reduce our volume to the simple evangelists, select, even from them, the very words only of Jesus, paring off the amphibologisms into which they have been led, by forgetting often, or not understanding, what had fallen from him, by giving their own misconceptions as his dicta, and expressing unintelligibly for others what they had not understood themselves. There will be found remaining the most sublime and benevolent code of morals which has ever been offered to man. I have performed this operation for my own use, by cutting verse by verse out of the printed book, and arranging the matter which is evidently his, and which is as easily distinguishable as diamonds in a dunghill. The result is an octavo of forty-six pages, of pure and unsophisticated doctrines.[5]
This 1804 version's full title was, The Philosophy of Jesus of Nazareth, being Extracted from the Account of His Life and Doctrines Given by Matthew, Mark, Luke and John; Being an Abridgement of the New Testament for the Use of the Indians, Unembarrased [uncomplicated] with Matters of Fact or Faith beyond the Level of their Comprehensions.[7] Jefferson frequently expressed discontent with this earlier version. The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth represents the fulfillment of his desire to produce a more carefully assembled edition.
Deists, those who were, and were what is called the “founding fathers” of the United States of American usurped this role from the Christian founders who had signed the Articles of Confederation.
Religion, has played an important role from the nations beginnings in the 16th century until today. The Declaration of Independence explicitly alludes to God, the 1781 Articles of Confederation pay tribute to the "Great Governor of the World, the Son of God" and the Federal and State Constitutions in the United States of America also reference to God. There is also "ceremonial deism," or public allusions to a divinity (specifically the Judaeo-Christian divinity). Examples include the opening prayer for legislative sessions, the promise of loyalty to a nation "under God," as well as the invocation to God before judicial procedures ("God save the United States and this Honorable Court"), a witness's oath upon the Holy Bible before testifying in court, the national Holidays of Christmas, Thanksgiving, and National Prayer Day (proclaimed at the Continental Congress in 1775 to emphasize the dependence on God as essential to the promotion of the morality and mercy needed to achieve a social happiness and a free Government). Furthermore, the motto of the United States of America is: "In God We Trust;" and the preliminary prayer at the President's inaugural speech--to name a few.
Political speech and practice are full of subtle, yet significant, religious allusions. Although the United States of America claims a rigid separation between Church and State, the American Constitution and its Bill of Rights has had an important religious component in its formation, development, and manifestation of the documents that rule America.
The Bill of Rights is the collective name for the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution. These limitations serve to protect the natural rights of liberty and property. They guarantee a number of personal freedoms, limit the government's power in judicial and other proceedings, and reserve some powers to the states and the public. While originally the amendments applied only to the federal government, most of their provisions have since been held to apply to the states by way of the Fourteenth Amendment.
And Whereas it hath pleased the Great Governor of the World to incline the hearts of the legislatures we respectively represent in Congress, to approve of, and to authorize us to ratify the said Articles of Confederation and perpetual Union.
Making the change from under God to under man . . .
The new American Constitution failed to acknowledge God's Power and instead ceded governmental authority to "We the People…”. We the people, was a break, from the original Articles of Confederation under God by honoring the Lord Jesus Christ of Nazareth, the Great Governor of the World, to a man centered nation, “in order to form a more perfect Union". This break not only was with historically distant European precedents, but with the Articles of Confederation, which paid homage to "the Great Governor of the World," i.e.: The Lord Jesus Christ of Nazareth, as the majority of America's founders, even though nearly all of the new nation's citizens were not only Christian but Protestant,and with the Declaration of Independence, with its majestic statement that "all men…are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights," is NOT the same as acknowledging the “Great Governor of the World”. It is worth noting here that the Declaration of Independence was a bold and impassioned proclamation of “mans” liberty.
In 1781, the Articles of Confederation acknowledged “. . . the Great Governor of the World,” but a mere six years later the American Constitution made no mention of God until the Bill of Rights were added by Christian Protestants (and the Papacy, the Roman Catholic “church” to prevent stopping the Catholics from spreading their satanic doctrines) to ensure man’s freedom to Worship. The question ask by many, is: WHO IS THE GREAT GOVERNOR OF THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD? Since the original founders of the nation, under the Articles of Confederation were Christians, let’s go to the Holy Bible, and see if we can locate the One Who is the Great Governor of the World, and who rules the nations . . .
Psalm 22:27-31
27 All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the Lord: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee.
28 For the kingdom is the Lord's: and he is the governor among the nations.
29 All they that be fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul.
30 A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation.
31 They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he hath done this.
Romans 3:24-27
24 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
25 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
26 To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
27 Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.
Revelation 19:11-16
11 And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.
12 His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself.
13 And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.
14 And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.
15 And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.
16 And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, King Of Kings, And Lord Of Lords.
The U.S. Constitution, drafted in 1787 and ratified in 1788, is a godless document. Its utter neglect of religion was no oversight; it was apparent to all. Self-consciously designed to be an instrument with which to structure the secular politics of individual interest and happiness, in 1787-88 the Constitution was bitterly attacked for its failure to mention God or Christianity.
Eighteenth-century political-theological conservatives lost the battle over the Constitution, and the bitter pill remains equally bitter to their spiritual descendants today. However, through the Bill of Rights to the Constitution, some of our founding fathers protected the rights of individuals to Worship as they pleased, and to speak freely concerning their religious faith and belief to others.
The Articles of Confederation, formally the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union, was an agreement among the 13 founding states that established the United States of America as a confederation of sovereign states and served as its first constitution.[1] Its drafting by the Continental Congress began in mid 1776, and an approved version was sent to the states for ratification in late 1777. The formal ratification by all 13 states was completed in early 1781.
Secession from the Articles of Confederation
The United States was governed under the Articles of Confederation for most of the American Revolution and the first few years afterwards. Amendments to the Articles required unanimous consent of the states. The Congress under the Articles authorized a convention to propose changes to the Articles, leading to the drafting of the United States Constitution as a replacement for, rather than an amendment to, the Articles. Instead of submitting the Constitution to Congress where it would require unanimous approval, the proposed Constitution required only the ratification of nine of the thirteen states in order to initiate government under the Constitution. Only states ratifying the Constitution would be included in the new government. For a time, 11 of the states operated under the Constitution without the non-ratifying states of Rhode Island and North Carolina.[14]