What did Thomas Jefferson believed?

Answer 1

Thomas Jefferson, the third President of the United States, believed that Jesus had taught some of the greatest moral principles, but that the four evangelists had added false stories of miracles and claims that Jesus was divine. He sought to promote the morals of the ancient philosophers, Jewish ethics and the teachings of Jesus. Jefferson edited the four Gospels to produce a thin book that is now called "The Jefferson Bible", literally creating it with a razor and paste. This included the philosophical and moral teachings of Jesus but omitted all claims to miracles or to his divinity.