Reddit reviews The Jefferson Bible

>It's not like in Mark's "lost" ending Jesus stayed dead

Right. That was The Gospel according to Thomas Jefferson.

>or came back as a zombie and terrorized Judea

Not sure who that's "the Gospel according to", but I'm interested.

If you want, you can get a Jefferson for a Hamilton.

How about the Jefferson Bible, where he excised all mention of miracles and supernatural crap leaving only the moral lessons?

http://www.amazon.com/Jefferson-Bible-Thomas/dp/0807077143

Yes, plenty. The Jefferson Bible is excellent - it's the New Testament minus the inanity. I highly recommend it.

I'm not aware of a religion, but there is a book written by Thomas Jefferson that just includes what Jesus taught and tosses out the claims to divinity. It's called The Jefferson Bible or The Life and Teachings of Jesus of Nazareth.

Here is the Amazon link if anyone is interested in having a physical copy.

You should really look into the Jefferson Bible.. Thomas Jefferson was a religious scholar who was EXTREMELY open minded about religion, surprising for someone of his time. He even owned a Koran! He ended up writing this book, his version of the bible without all that stupid mythology and slavery crap.. It's actually a pretty good read!

Jefferson edited the bible to take out all of the supernatural aspects and just left the teachings of Jesus.

I agree with you, but I think you misunderstood what I was inquiring. There are many atheists or members of other religions that would agree with you that the bible contains a lot of sensible moral teachings (not referring the old testament here); more along the lines of those of Jesus. That being said, why take stock in things like organized religion, belief in eternal salvation/damnation et cetera; rather than just simply appreciating the moral teachings for what they are? Thomas Jefferson did just that when he wrote this.

Those passages are in context, would you like to read them in the new international version or a literal translation? I quoted KJV because that is what is seen as a fairly standard bible. If you think that there are different interpretations of them then please say what you think they are. My advice? ignore the whole book, it is impossible to read the whole thing without either ignoring the contradicting parts of the bible or going mad trying to fulfill both parts.

Critical thought applied to the bible gives you this, which is no different than aesop or any other storyteller trying to instill values through the telling of stories.