Any information on Newton would be gratefully received. With regards mainly to his Christian beliefs. I believe Isaac was a christian?
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Isaac Newton certainly thought very highly of the Bible. Even as a teen of 14 people remarked on how well he knew the Scriptures. However Isaac Newton's beliefs were a bit different from the Protestant Christians in his day. He was a member of the Church of England, but he refused to be ordained (as was common for all college grads in those days to be ordained). One of the reasons was that he rejected the concept of the Trinity.
A couple of decent sources to check online about Newton's beliefs are:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton's_religious_views
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"There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history."---Sir Isaac Newton
"I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by men who were inspired. I study the Bible daily."---Sir Isaac Newton
"I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by men who were inspired. I study the Bible daily."---Sir Isaac Newton
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VII RELIGIOUS CONVICTIONS AND PERSONALITY
Newton also wrote on Judaeo-Christian prophecy, whose decipherment was essential, he thought, to the understanding of God. His book on the subject, which was reprinted well into the Victorian Age, represented lifelong study. Its message was that Christianity went astray in the 4th century AD, when the first Council of Nicaea propounded erroneous doctrines of the nature of Christ. The full extent of Newton's unorthodoxy was recognized only in the present century: but although a critic of accepted Trinitarian dogmas and the Council of Nicaea, he possessed a deep religious sense, venerated the Bible and accepted its account of creation. In late editions of his scientific works he expressed a strong sense of God's providential role in nature. (http://www.newton.cam.ac.uk/newtlife.html)
Newton also wrote on Judaeo-Christian prophecy, whose decipherment was essential, he thought, to the understanding of God. His book on the subject, which was reprinted well into the Victorian Age, represented lifelong study. Its message was that Christianity went astray in the 4th century AD, when the first Council of Nicaea propounded erroneous doctrines of the nature of Christ. The full extent of Newton's unorthodoxy was recognized only in the present century: but although a critic of accepted Trinitarian dogmas and the Council of Nicaea, he possessed a deep religious sense, venerated the Bible and accepted its account of creation. In late editions of his scientific works he expressed a strong sense of God's providential role in nature. (http://www.newton.cam.ac.uk/newtlife.html)
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To my dismay, I have not found out much concrete information about Newton.
There have been many rumors that Newton was a vegetarian, including his own family stating that he was a vegetarian, but nothing was conclusive.
Also, no information I have recieved about Newton' Christianity was conclusive. Sorry!
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There have been many rumors that Newton was a vegetarian, including his own family stating that he was a vegetarian, but nothing was conclusive.
Also, no information I have recieved about Newton' Christianity was conclusive. Sorry!
Greg
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One thing seems sure: Isaac Newton was a miserable individual who happened to develop the calculus and physics.
Although Leibniz did a better job with the calculus.
Although Leibniz did a better job with the calculus.
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My favorite quote of all time is from Sir Isaac Newton. In 1676, in a letter to a friend, he wrote:
“If I have seen further than others, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.”
This shows the great humility of the man. Even though he was a brilliant scientist, he recognized that he was only taking what he had learned from previous generations and improving on them.
This is true not only in the scientific world, but also in the religious. Too often in the religious world, we take the beliefs of a particular giant of the past and build walls around it and defend it, and in some cases make denominations around them. Spiritual growth is then cut off. It becomes a “this is what we believe” thing, and all other thoughts are repelled out.
Who is to say, for instance, that had John Wesley lived another 50 years, that he would not have had a deeper revelation of the gospel of Jesus Christ than he had when he died? In fact, one could argue that if you believe the exact same way as you did 50 years ago, this can point to no spiritual growth.
We need to stand on the shoulders of the giants of the past, and not only see what they saw, but desire to see even further and clearer, and yearn to see what the early apostles saw in the glorious gospel of Jesus Christ.
“If I have seen further than others, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.”
This shows the great humility of the man. Even though he was a brilliant scientist, he recognized that he was only taking what he had learned from previous generations and improving on them.
This is true not only in the scientific world, but also in the religious. Too often in the religious world, we take the beliefs of a particular giant of the past and build walls around it and defend it, and in some cases make denominations around them. Spiritual growth is then cut off. It becomes a “this is what we believe” thing, and all other thoughts are repelled out.
Who is to say, for instance, that had John Wesley lived another 50 years, that he would not have had a deeper revelation of the gospel of Jesus Christ than he had when he died? In fact, one could argue that if you believe the exact same way as you did 50 years ago, this can point to no spiritual growth.
We need to stand on the shoulders of the giants of the past, and not only see what they saw, but desire to see even further and clearer, and yearn to see what the early apostles saw in the glorious gospel of Jesus Christ.
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