1. The Second Continental Congress selected Thomas Jefferson to draft the Declaration of Independence. Jefferson was a statesman from Virginia who was known as an idealist and a good wnter. Jefferson locked himself in a room for a few days, writing on a special desk te had designed. His dratt stated forcefully that governments dont grant rights: people are born, or endowed, with unalienable rights that they are entitled to, and the government should protect those rights. Those rights include iſe, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Furthermore, the government gets its power and legitimacy from the will of the people, not from God, tradition or military power. These ideas come directly from the Enlightenment. The Enlightenment was a philosophical movement with origins in Europe in the seventeenth century. Thinkers like John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau proposed the revolutionary Ideas that men were born with rights and that governments rested on the will of the people. Jefferson was heavily inspired by the ideas of the Enlightenment Which of these is most likely true of Thomas Jefferson? A. Thomas Jefferson was not familiar with any 8. Thomas Jefferson did not agree with John Enlightenment thinkers. Locke about the role of the government, C. Thomas Jefferson read the works of John D. Thomas Jefferson's ideas would later Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. influence John Locke. ОА O B

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the covenant that god made with abraham was a unilateral (one-sided) promise from god to abraham.   apart from anything abraham did, god was promising that he was going to bring about a great nation from abraham's offspring, and that the messiah (meaning "the anointed one") would come from abraham's descendants, as one through whom the whole world would receive favor from god.   as god promised abraham, "through your offspring all nations on earth will be blessed" (genesis 22: 18).

the "new covenant" was announced by jesus of nazareth, who had asserted that he was the "son of david" (and descendant of abraham) that fulfilled those promises to abraham.   when jesus introduced the sacred meal that we now refer to as the lord's supper, as told his disciples in reference to the wine they drank, "this cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you" (luke 22: 20).   this "new covenant" through jesus was also a unilateral (one-sided) covenant.   he gave himself in sacrifice for all people, without conditions attached.   as his friend and apostle john later wrote, "he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world" (1 john 2: 2).

so the covenant with abraham and the "new covenant" ushered in by jesus are, in essence, connected as one covenant -- because jesus was saying he was the one promised to abraham that fulfilled that covenant and brought blessing to the world.

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