Isaac Newton Says The Rapture Won't Happen Until After 2060?

Question

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/06/18/newton.papers.ap/index.html

When a genius says it, does it make it more credible?
Since I won't be alive then, should I party even harder now?

Answer 1

Superstition is superstition, no matter who believes it. Same with BS.

Answer 2

LOL...yes, Isaac Newton was quite the nutball. Alchemy, prophecy, the whole range of "occult" sciences. He really represented the bridge between the old Renaissance way of conceiving of nature and the modern scientific era. But he made several predictions as to when the "End of the World" would occur, based on the biblical prophecies of Daniel and the Apocalypse, etc. According to some of his notes, the Jews should've reclaimed Jerusalem in 1899, and the Second Coming should've occurred in 1948. (But hey, it's not the first time Jesus was late to that party.) It just goes to show what real discoveries a man of ingenuity can make in spite of being hampered by an inheritance of some absurd working theories.

He was NOT a Deist, as his alleged descendant above says. He was an Arian, which was an extremely controversial position for his time and one he had to keep secret, although it's well known and attested today that he was.

Answer 3

Newton was a genius, true.

However, he has been proven wrong in a number
of things ... indeed, if you think about it, pretty much
all that he is known for is WRONG.

That is, it was all superceded by the Einsteinian
view of the universe. Newton's models are useful
at low speeds, etc, but don't generalize and are
always incorrect at least to some decimal place.

Given that he can be wrong, do you suppose it is
possible that he might be wrong about the rapture?

Now, I don't want to detract from his analysis or
his deductions - the man is a certified genius -
but the important thing here is the message, NOT
the messenger.

So ... what do you suppose Newton's evidence was
regarding the rapture? Does his reasoning seem
sound by current standards?

Answer 4

Issac Newton liked to dabble in all sorts of things to find problems he could solve. It was more of an excersize for him than something to take seriously. He was himself a deist, like Thomas Jefforson, so he could not ahve actually thought the rapture was going to happen. I suppsoe he simply discovered some interesting logical consequences from the text. Or perhaps what he wrote is completely misunderstood and misrepresented by this article. Both are possible.

Answer 5

Wow, what is your source? That is pretty interesting - but even Sir Isaac Newton wasn't right about everything.

You don't even have a promise of living tomorrow........why wait?

Answer 6

Isaac Newton is just another one of antiquities satanic mystery religion follower's! Because we've been programmed to think that these satanists through history(plato,aristotle, confusious, buddha, einstein, edison, jefferson,etc) were great men and above us, we should believe it's so? Please, satan is a genius, he knows more about the universe than any human ever could and that's where these closet homos' all got their 'genius' from!

Answer 7

Is this the same Isaac Newton who was obsessed with alchemy and had a nervous breakdown (i.e. went mad)?

Answer 8

Yes. Oh poopy, I'll be really, really dead by then. I want to gits a shot out to the "Buddy Jeebus" from Dogma that answered this question...."high dee ho"! nm

Answer 9

Mat 24:36 But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.

safe guess for him seeing he would be long dead

Answer 10

1. Not always, and 2. You bet.