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perfect union.” Jefferson, Adams, and those others working alongside of them, believed that
the principles set forth by the luminaries of The Enlightenment could be employed to create
a governmental system far superior from the monarchies and other political forms that
were common to the nations.

The apostle Paul had encountered many such “enlightened” philosophies in his day. There
were many among the Greeks and Romans who had their various schools of enlightenment.
The Greeks elevated philosophy to a national religion.

I Corinthians 1:22-23
For indeed Jews ask for signs and Greeks search for wisdom; but we preach Christ
crucified, to Jews a stumbling block and to Gentiles foolishness...

What these men call wisdom is actually the subtle deception of Satan. Satan has persuaded
men that they are capable of self-rule, following in his own path of rebellion against the God
of heaven. Paul calls the philosophy of man what it truly is.

Colossians 2:8
See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty DECEPTION,
according to the tradition of men, according to the elementary principles of the world,
rather than according to Christ.

It was the empty deception of The Enlightenment that Jefferson and Adams were following.
As the Christian recognizes Lucifer to be the source of this rational philosophy, it should not
be surprising that students of The Enlightenment manifested an antichrist spirit as they
declared the divinity of Christ to be false, the virgin birth to be a myth, and the resurrection
of the Son of God to be a detestable lie.

The godly man and woman who has the mind of Christ will recognize that Thomas Jefferson
was a natural man without spiritual perception to whom the words of God appeared as
foolishness. Jefferson named those philosophers whose teachings he admired in a letter to
Adams, while disparaging Christian belief.

To talk of immaterial existences is to talk of nothings. To say that the human soul, angels,
god, are immaterial, is to say they are nothings, or that there is no god, no angels, no soul.
I cannot reason otherwise: but I believe I am supported in my creed of materialism by
Locke, Tracy, and Stewart. At what age of the Christian church this heresy of
immaterialism, this masked atheism, crept in, I do not know. But heresy it certainly is.
[Source: Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Adams, Aug. 15, 1820]

It was Locke who first penned a phrase that was later modified and made famous by
Jefferson. John Locke discussed natural rights in his work, and identified them as being
"life, liberty, and estate (or property)." Jefferson modified this statement and made it
famous.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are
endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life,