Comments on: The Jefferson Lies: Does the Jefferson Bible include the miracles of Matthew 9? https://wthrockmorton.com/2012/04/04/the-jefferson-lies-does-the-jefferson-bible-include-the-miracles-of-matthew-9/ A [retired] college psychology professor's observations about public policy, mental health, sexual identity, and religious issues Thu, 31 May 2018 01:06:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: Warren https://wthrockmorton.com/2012/04/04/the-jefferson-lies-does-the-jefferson-bible-include-the-miracles-of-matthew-9/#comment-95576 Thu, 31 May 2018 01:06:42 +0000 https://www.wthrockmorton.com/?p=11347#comment-95576 In reply to Blake.

PS – The Matthew 9 verses (except v. 36) were not in either version.

]]> By: Blake https://wthrockmorton.com/2012/04/04/the-jefferson-lies-does-the-jefferson-bible-include-the-miracles-of-matthew-9/#comment-93931 Wed, 30 May 2018 21:05:42 +0000 https://www.wthrockmorton.com/?p=11347#comment-93931 I’m confused. Were the verses in the final bound 1824 version or are the 1820 & 1824 versions the same thing?

]]> By: DAVE G https://wthrockmorton.com/2012/04/04/the-jefferson-lies-does-the-jefferson-bible-include-the-miracles-of-matthew-9/#comment-60603 Thu, 05 Apr 2012 20:38:01 +0000 https://www.wthrockmorton.com/?p=11347#comment-60603 I believe Jesus recognized those maladies in Matt. 9 as psychogenic –hence: “Your faith has healed you.”

]]> By: DAVE G https://wthrockmorton.com/2012/04/04/the-jefferson-lies-does-the-jefferson-bible-include-the-miracles-of-matthew-9/#comment-85873 Thu, 05 Apr 2012 16:38:01 +0000 https://www.wthrockmorton.com/?p=11347#comment-85873 I believe Jesus recognized those maladies in Matt. 9 as psychogenic –hence: “Your faith has healed you.”

]]> By: Jason_Aaron https://wthrockmorton.com/2012/04/04/the-jefferson-lies-does-the-jefferson-bible-include-the-miracles-of-matthew-9/#comment-60602 Thu, 05 Apr 2012 15:44:13 +0000 https://www.wthrockmorton.com/?p=11347#comment-60602 “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

Jefferson, John Adams and Ben Franklin were all friends with and influenced by the thinking of Dr. Joseph Priestley. That influence is on exhibit in the above quote. Priestly, who co-founded the Unitarian church in England, said the authors of the New Testamment “corrupted” Christianity. What he meant was the message of Jesus was sufficient to stand on its own without inventing the supernatural elements – virgin birth, resurrection, the miracles attributed to Jesus, and so forth.

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