To: balrog666
You are only partly correct.
Though he probably wrote as much on Biblical subjects as scientific ones, Newton never published any of his Biblical writings. Though he outwardly conformed to the church of England, Newton privately was an Arian Christian. He believed Jesus Christ was the Savior of the world, but he did not believe He was very God. Newton believed the Athanasian creed and the doctrine of the Trinity diminished the sovereign dominion of the Almighty and corrupted the purity of the church for centuries. But Newton largely kept these heretical beliefs to himself.
Newton was a deeply committed Christian (an Arian Christian is in every way a "fundamentalist" as described by the author of this article), but he did not conform to the Church of England. Very few fundamentalists do.
Nice try.
283 posted on
03/20/2004 8:09:01 AM PST by
Skooz
(My Biography: Psalm 40:1-3)
To: Skooz
Just what did you think heretic meant? He despised what he considered the corruption of the Catholic, Anglican, and Protestant theological doctrines and wrote extensively on the essential meaning of early theology.
284 posted on
03/20/2004 8:19:06 AM PST by
balrog666
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