Testament and compared the texts in order to find any existing incongruities (Edwards, 2012). Secondly, in Jefferson’s opinion, “Early Christians obscured the words of Jesus with the philosophy of the ancient Greeks and the teachings of Plato” (Mellowes, 1998), and the Christian Church created a system of beliefs that “Jesus himself would not have recognized” (Reese, 2005). Looking for the “authentic” Jesus, Jefferson omitted everything that, in his opinion, was unoriginal. Thus, Jefferson’s version…
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