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referred to Adams as “The Colossus of that Congress—the great pillar of support to The
Declaration of Independence, and its ablest advocate and champion on the floor of the
House.”

In his, "A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America"
[1787-1788], John Adams wrote:

The United States of America have exhibited, perhaps, the first example of
governments erected on the simple principles of nature; and if men are now
sufficiently enlightened to disabuse themselves of artifice, imposture, hypocrisy, and
superstition, they will consider this event as an era in their history. Although the detail of
the formation of the American governments is at present little known or regarded either
in Europe or in America, it may hereafter become an object of curiosity. It will never be
pretended that any persons employed in that service had interviews with the
gods, or were in any degree under the influence of Heaven, more than those at
work upon ships or houses, or laboring in merchandise or agriculture; it will forever
be acknowledged that these governments were contrived merely by the use
of reason and the senses.
[End Quotation]

This is a true and accurate statement of the origination of the founding documents of
America and its governmental structure. Some might object that the men who framed these
documents made mention of God. A Christian is not manifesting wisdom if they accept all
things at face value. They will surely be led astray into forming false conceptions of the birth
of America and the merits of its governmental forms if they do not perform due diligence
and investigate the men who penned these seminal documents, while looking into the
influences that guided them.

We need not guess as to the beliefs of these men for their writings have been preserved for
posterity. We can examine their own statements to know what they thought about God, His
Son, and the Christian religion. The following statements of Thomas Jefferson reveal his
opinion of the Bible and of the person of Jesus Christ, Yahshua the Messiah.

Among the sayings and discourses imputed to him [Jesus] by his biographers, I find many
passages of fine imagination, correct morality, and of the most lovely benevolence; and
others again of so much ignorance, so much absurdity, so much untruth, charlatanism,
and imposture, as to pronounce it impossible that such contradictions should have
proceeded from the same being.
[Source: Thomas Jefferson, letter to William Short, April 13, 1820]

In a letter to John Adams, Jefferson wrote the following, revealing his justification for
creating his own version of the gospels of Christ.

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