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of the Declaration of Independence, professed

to be a Christian, but he rejected the Trinity,

the virgin birth, the deity of Christ, the

blood atonement, the bodily resurrection of

Christ, the judgment of hell, and the fall of

man. Now, if somebody walked into our

church today and said that he rejected these

things, we would say he was lost and on his

way to hell. And Thomas Jefferson also

made his own Bible by cutting out from the

Scripture everything that pertained to

Christ's divinity, miracles, angels, prophecy,

and Messianic genealogy. So he made his

own Bible, but he cut out everything he

didn't like. And Thomas Paine, who wrote

"Common Sense," which was a bestseller

during the American Revolution, is considered

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