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internal evidence that parts of it have proceeded from an extraordinary man (Jesus
Christ); 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.
[Source: Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Adams, January 24, 1814, (parenthesis added)]

It is observable from this statement that Jefferson did not believe Jesus to be anything
other than an “extraordinary man.” What Jefferson referred to as the work of inferior minds
includes the virgin birth of Christ, as well as all of Christ’s miracles of healing, casting out
demons, and His bodily resurrection. In another letter he penned the following comment:

And the day will come when the mystical generation (birth) of Jesus, by the supreme being
as his father in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of
Minerve in the brain of Jupiter. But may we hope that the dawn of reason and freedom
of thought in these United States will do away with this artificial scaffolding, and restore
to us the primitive and genuine doctrines of this most venerated reformer of human
errors.
[Source: Thomas Jefferson, Letter to John Adams, April 11, 1823]

That this discourse occurred between Jefferson and Adams, two men most intimately
connected to the writing and passage of America’s Declaration of Independence and
Constitution, reveals not only that they did not accept Jesus Christ/Yahshua the Messiah
as the Son of God, but they looked forward to the overthrow of beliefs and claims of Christ’s
divinity and virgin birth that they considered to be deplorable fables. The Bible testifies the
following:

I John 4:1-3
Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God,
because many false prophets have gone out into the world. By this you know the Spirit of
God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God; and
every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God; this is the spirit of
the antichrist, of which you have heard that it is coming, and now it is already in the
world.

What does the apostle John mean when he states that “Jesus Christ has come in the flesh?”
We can look at John’s own writings to answer this question.

John 8:42
Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love Me, for I proceeded forth and
have come from God, for I have not even come on My own initiative, but He sent Me.”

I John 4:15
Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.

I John 5:5
Who is the one who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

Since Jefferson denied that Jesus was the Christ, the Son of God, the Scriptures testify that