In the tidbit on the U.S. Presidents, it was seen that the names of the Presidents tells the story of the Bible from Genesis to the days of Messiah. Thomas Jefferson’s name is speaking of the serpent in the Garden who brought doubt to Adam and Eve, leading them astray. This doubt placed upon the Word of God, displays the character of Thomas Jefferson.

Jefferson believed in the God of the Bible, but doubted the Word.

2nd Inaugural Address:
“I shall need, too, the favor of that Being in whose hands we are, who led our fathers, as Israel of old, from their native land and planted them in a country flowing with all the necessaries and comforts of life; who has covered our infancy with His providence and our riper years with His wisdom and power, and to whose goodness I ask you to join in supplications with me that He will so enlighten the minds of your servants, guide their councils, and prosper their measures that whatsoever they do shall result in your good, and shall secure to you the peace, friendship, and approbation of all nations.”

Jefferson believed in God but was a Unitarian who denies the divinity of Messiah Jesus. This is the doctrine of antichrist.

“I rejoice that in this blessed country of free inquiry and belief, which has surrendered its conscience to neither kings or priests, the genuine doctrine of only one God is reviving, and I trust that there is not a young man now living in the United States who will not die a Unitarian. {6/26/1822 Letter to Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse}

Unitarians adhere to strict monotheism, and maintain that Jesus was a great man and a prophet of God, perhaps even a supernatural being, but not God himself.

1Jn 2:22 Who is the liar, except the one denying, saying that Jesus is not the Christ? This is the antichrist, the one denying the Father and the Son.
1Jn 2:23 Everyone denying the Son does not have the Father. The one confessing the Son also has the Father.
1Jn 4:2 By this know the Spirit of God: every spirit which confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God.
1Jn 4:3 And every spirit which does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not from God; and this is the antichrist which you heard is coming, and now is already in the world.

Jesus being called the Son of God is a proclamation that He is God.
Joh 19:7 Then the Jews answered him, We have a law, and according to our Law He ought to die because He made Himself Son of God!
Joh 10:30 I and the Father are One!
Joh 10:31 Then again the Jews took up stones, that they might stone Him.
Joh 10:32 Jesus answered them, I showed you many good works from My Father. For which work of them do you stone Me?
Joh 10:33 The Jews answered Him, saying, We do not stone You concerning a good work, but concerning blasphemy; and because You, being a man, make Yourself God.
Joh 10:34 Jesus answered them, Has it not been written in your Law, “I said, you are gods”? Psa. 82:6
Joh 10:35 If He called those gods with whom the Word of God was, and the Scripture cannot be broken,
Joh 10:36 do you say of Him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, You blaspheme, because I said, I am Son of God?
Joh 10:37 If I do not do the works of My Father, do not believe Me.
Joh 10:38 But if I do, even if you do not believe Me, believe the works, that you may perceive and may believe that the Father is in Me, and I in Him.
Luk 22:69 From now on the Son of Man will be sitting at the right of the power of God. Psa. 110:1
Luk 22:70 And they all said, Then are you the Son of God? And He said to them, You say it, because I AM!
Luk 22:71 And they said, Why do we yet have need of witness? For we ourselves heard it from His mouth.

Psa 2:2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying,
Psa 2:6 Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.
Psa 2:7 I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.
Psa 2:11 Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling.
Psa 2:12 Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.

Pro 30:4 Who hath ascended up into heaven, or descended? who hath gathered the wind in his fists? who hath bound the waters in a garment? who hath established all the ends of the earth? what is his name, and what is his son’s name, if thou canst tell?
Isa 9:6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
Isa 9:7 Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.
Isa 7:14 Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
Mat 1:23 “Behold! The virgin will conceive in her womb and will bear a son, and they will call His name Emmanuel” (which translated is, God with us). Isa. 7:14

“In summary, then, Jefferson was a deist because he believed in one God, in divine providence, in the divine moral law, and in rewards and punishments after death; but did not believe in supernatural revelation. He was a Christian deist because he saw Christianity as the highest expression of natural religion and Jesus as an incomparably great moral teacher. He was not an orthodox Christian because he rejected, among other things, the doctrines that Jesus was the promised Messiah and the incarnate Son of God. Jefferson’s religion is fairly typical of the American form of deism in his day.” {The Deist Minimum – Avery Dulles}

In a private letter to Benjamin Rush, Jefferson refers to himself as “Christian.” “To the corruptions of Christianity I am, indeed, opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself. I am a Christian, in the only sense in which he wished any one to be; sincerely attached to his doctrines, in preference to all others; ascribing to himself every human excellence…” {Letter to Benjamin Rush 4/21/1803}

However, Jefferson did not believe in all the words of Messiah.
In a letter to his close friend William Short Jefferson clarified, “it is not to be understood that I am with him [Jesus] in all his doctrines. I am a Materialist; he takes the side of Spiritualism; he preaches the efficacy of repentance toward forgiveness of sin; I require a counterpoise of good works to redeem it. Among the sayings and discourses imputed to him 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, of so much absurdity, so much untruth and imposture, as to pronounce it impossible that such contradictions should have proceeded from the same being.” {Letter to William Short 4/13/1820}

Jefferson continued to express his strong objections to the doctrines of the virgin birth, the divinity of Jesus, and the Trinity. In a letter to Adams (April 11, 1823), Jefferson wrote, “And the day will come, when the mystical generation 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 Minerva, in the brain of Jupiter.”

Jefferson’s opponents call him an infidel.

During the 1800 presidential campaign, the New England Palladium wrote, “Should the infidel Jefferson be elected to the Presidency, the seal of death is that moment set on our holy religion, our churches will be prostrated, and some infamous ‘prostitute’, under the title of goddess of reason, will preside in the sanctuaries now devoted to the worship of the most High. {New England Palladium, 1800 remarks about Jefferson}

wikipedia.org
“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 the New Testament containing supernatural aspects as well as perceived misinterpretations he believed had been added by the Four Evangelists.”

“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.” {Letter to John Adams 10/13/1813}

Jefferson’s Bible was 46 pages. 46 is the number of chromosomes in the human body. DNA is a picture of the Wordclick here. Here is a counterfeit version of the Word proposed by Jefferson, a picture of the serpent in the beginning who spoke 46 words to Eve to lead her astray.

Jefferson’s Razor

A close-up of the one of the source books Jefferson used.

Using a razor, Jefferson cut and pasted his arrangement of selected verses from the books of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John in chronological order, mingling excerpts from one text to those of another in order to create a single narrative. Thus he begins with Luke 2 and Luke 3, then follows with Mark 1 and Matthew 3. He provides a record of which verses he selected and of the order in which he arranged them in his “Table of the Texts from the Evangelists employed in this Narrative and of the order of their arrangement.”

There is an interesting connection to Jefferson and the razor seen in the Hebrew language. The Hebrew word מורה ‘morah’ is translated as razor. It is speaking of an archer or one who throws an arrow, literally lightning. מורה comes from the root מרה ‘marah’ which means bitterness or rebellion. The Hebrew word ירה ‘yarah’ also displays this concept of the throwing of lightning. ירה is speaking of teaching, as in pointing the way one is to walk. ירה is the root of the word תורה ‘torah’ which is speaking of the Word.

Satan is likened to lightning falling from heaven.

Luk 10:18 And He said to them, I saw Satan falling out of Heaven as lightning!

Here we see a counterfeit word brought forth by the adversary which is displayed by Jefferson through his cutting out verses of the Bible.

Another Hebrew word for razor is צור ‘tsor’ which is a picture of flint with a razor sharp edge. צור comes from the root צר which means an enemy. Again a reference to the adversary.
Mat 13:25 But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.

The Hebrew word תער ‘ta’ar’ also is translated as a razor. תער comes from the root ער which means naked or smooth bare skin as the razor is used to make one hairless. ער is also the root word of ערום ‘arum’ which means subtil or deceptive in Hebrew. A ‘smooth’ talker.

Gen 3:1 Now the serpent was more subtil {ערום} than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?