He was a materialist and didn't believe in Jesus' divinity or any of the platonic mysticism BS. But he looked very highly upon the morals taught by Jesus, throwing out those that he considered to have been misinterpreted or corrupted by the four evangelists. He separated the wheat from the chaff or the "diamonds from the dunghill" as he called it.
The Jefferson Bible, or The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth as it is formally titled, was an attempt by Thomas Jefferson to glean the teachings of Jesus from the Christian Gospels. Jefferson wished to extract the doctrine of Jesus by removing sections of the New Testament containing supernatural aspects as well as perceived misinterpretations he believed had been added by the Four Evangelists.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_BibleHere is the Jefferson Bible.
http://www.angelfire.com/co/JeffersonBible/
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