Who is God from The Adams-Jefferson Letters: The Complete Correspondence Between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adams and what is their importance? The_Adams-Jefferson_Letters English & Literature God | The Adams-Jefferson Letters: The Complete Correspondence Between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adams

Among the most important topics in the letters is the nature of God. Both men were deists who believed in a benevolent God who had designed the world but did not engage in supernatural interruptions of the operation of the laws of nature. Adams was less committed on this matter than Jefferson, however. The two men believed that God had given men reason, natural rights and a moral sense, but that men who claimed to speak for God were typically insane or evil.