1 00:00:10,340 --> 00:00:12,840 Do you realise that Newton 2 00:00:13,000 --> 00:00:15,300 could have been condemned to death or imprisonment 3 00:00:15,500 --> 00:00:17,000 as Galilei before him 4 00:00:17,200 --> 00:00:19,200 and he would have had to abjure his own scientific research? 5 00:00:19,600 --> 00:00:24,600 He would have had to do that if he had spoken out and expressed his convictions 6 00:00:24,700 --> 00:00:29,080 At the time,this was considered a crime liable to capital punishment. 7 00:00:30,200 --> 00:00:34,090 Newton believed that the concept of the Trinity is insupportable 8 00:00:34,200 --> 00:00:37,000 He had to face problems because of his belief 9 00:00:37,500 --> 00:00:40,500 When Newton joined Trinity College at the University of Cambridge 10 00:00:41,640 --> 00:00:44,640 he was required to take orders and be ordained as a priest 11 00:00:45,170 --> 00:00:48,000 But he continued to put this off indefinitely 12 00:00:48,500 --> 00:00:50,600 When he was selected for the Lucasian Chair 13 00:00:50,900 --> 00:00:54,200 he addressed a personal appeal to King Charles II 14 00:00:55,180 --> 00:00:58,660 requestingthat he be exempted from this requirement because he did not believe in theTrinity 15 00:00:59,560 --> 00:01:04,160 Put plainly,Newton believed in the One God 16 00:01:04,300 --> 00:01:07,280 Amazingly,his concept of God and Jesus was close to the Islamic concept 17 00:01:08,720 --> 00:01:10,620 His biographer ,Richard Westfall,writes 18 00:01:11,520 --> 00:01:15,100 ‘Newton recognized Christ as a divine mediator between God and man 19 00:01:16,680 --> 00:01:18,380 who was subordinate to the Father who created him 20 00:01:19,760 --> 00:01:21,520 Newton,then,considered Jesus an intermediary 21 00:01:22,040 --> 00:01:25,900 between God and man and that he was subject to his Creator. 22 00:01:26,140 --> 00:01:31,020 Indeed,God’s messengers have such intermediary role between God and His creation 23 00:01:32,020 --> 00:01:34,060 and they are subject to God’s will like all creatures 24 00:01:35,520 --> 00:01:37,700 Newton followed Arius who was a Unitarian 25 00:01:38,600 --> 00:01:41,920 and rejected Athanasius who believed in the Trinity 26 00:01:42,580 --> 00:01:45,500 Newton believed in an omnipotent and omniscient God 27 00:01:46,160 --> 00:01:50,540 Newton says in his Twelve Articles on Religion,published around1710 28 00:01:51,200 --> 00:01:52,880 This most beautiful system of the sun,planets 29 00:01:53,900 --> 00:01:54,320 and comets could only proceed 30 00:01:55,960 --> 00:01:58,000 from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being 31 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:02,100 There is one God,the Father,ever-living,omnipresent 32 00:02:03,040 --> 00:02:05,880 omniscient,almighty,the maker of heaven and earth 33 00:02:06,160 --> 00:02:10,160 and one mediator between God and man.That manis Christ Jesus. 34 00:02:11,120 --> 00:02:12,620 We are to return thanks to the father alone 35 00:02:13,180 --> 00:02:16,020 for creating us and giving us food and raiment and other blessings. 36 00:02:17,860 --> 00:02:21,140 Newton studied the Gospel more than he studied any other thing 37 00:02:21,240 --> 00:02:22,500 and he arrived at the conclusion 38 00:02:22,700 --> 00:02:24,900 that numerous texts were introduced 39 00:02:25,240 --> 00:02:28,700 and inserted into the Gospel asserting the divinity of Jesus Christ 40 00:02:29,040 --> 00:02:31,800 These texts were not part of the Gospel before. 41 00:02:32,720 --> 00:02:35,000 The Islamic belief is that stated by God in the Qur'an 42 00:02:36,400 --> 00:02:41,000 ‘Theonly true faith acceptable to God is [man’s]self-surrender to Him.’ 43 00:02:41,200 --> 00:02:43,840 And it's the message of all messengers and prophets 44 00:02:44,680 --> 00:02:47,220 Adam,Noah,Moses,Jesusand Mohamed 45 00:02:48,560 --> 00:02:49,840 It's one message from god 46 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:53,360 Newton come very close tothis idea when he said 47 00:02:53,600 --> 00:02:56,820 ‘The first religion was the most rational of all 48 00:02:57,800 --> 00:02:59,920 others till the nations corrupted it.’