Dear Friends Of Religious Freedom: A Timely Letter From Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson and the Baptists didn’t have much in common when it came to theology.
Jefferson, a deist, thought the moral teachings of Jesus were sublime, but he didn’t believe in the virgin birth, the divinity of Jesus or the inerrancy of the Bible. He thought the miracles reported in the New Testament were myths, and he considered the Christian doctrine of the Trinity incomprehensible.
Needless to say, his founding-era Baptist compatriots disagreed – to put it mildly.