Isaac Newton? Why did the discoverer of gravity become obsessed with Bible study? Is gravity unbiblical?

Question

Did gravity challenge Scriptures?

Do you know he spent half his time on researching the bible with scientific zeal?

Didn't he calculate the anti-Christ would happen now? Could the Anti-Christ be Isreal or radical Islam? Or was it the rapture? Jesus return?

I forget which, but all those centuries ago Newton calculated a current date would fullfill Bible prophecy, and published it!

he wrote about both the Book of Daniel and the Book of Revelation in his Observations Upon the Prophecies. In a manuscript he wrote in 1704 in which Isaac Newton extracted scientific information from the Bible.

He estimated that the world would end no earlier than 2060. (350+ years later for him, but 50+ years for us!!!)

Though he is better known for his love of science, the Bible was Sir Isaac Newton's greatest passion.

He devoted more time to the study of Scripture than to science, and said, "I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily."

He spent a great deal of time trying to discover hidden messages within the Bible.

He held closer to the Eastern Orthodox view of the Trinity rather than the Western one held by Roman Catholics & Anglicans.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton's_religious_views

Isaac Newton, born on Christmas day in 1642, was the greatest scientist who has ever lived, unequaled in mental ability during his entire adult life.

It is, in fact, generally accepted that he is the greatest scientist who ever will live, since no one, no matter how brilliant, will ever again be in such a unique historical position.

He read the Bible daily throughout his life and wrote over a million words of notes regarding his study of it.

Isaac Newton believed that the Bible is literally true in every respect. Throughout his life, he continually tested Biblical truth against the physical truths of experimental and theoretical science. He never observed a contradiction.

In fact, he viewed his own scientific work as a method to reinforce faith!

Sir Isaac Newton and all reputable scientists believed that today's scarred and marred earth was the result of the great Flood. This was the common opinion of the majority of educated people until around the year 1870

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http://www.reformation.org/newton.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton's_religious_views

Answer 1

The whole point of creating the story about the apples was to get more folks into the idea- the apple was very biblical, y'know. (At least in some versions.)

And he didn't discover gravity- he hypothesized that it was an actual force derived from mass. Jugglers have known about gravity for centuries- just not the "matter attracts matter" thing.

He may have become a bit mad there at the end. When he was appointed to head the mint (and invented the mill-edged coin) he spent a great many years arresting people for using forged money (this included small children who were just found with it on their person).

Oh, and he was a flaming homosexual. That seems to get left out in the school lessons today. But it explains a great deal about some of his social life, eccentricities, and research years.

Most Europeans were very devout Christians at his time of life. Many great scientists have used their religious beliefs to formulate their research hypotheses. We live and learn.

Answer 2

We have to remember that scientists are still people, and people have their own personal feelings when it comes to religion and philosophy. There's nothing wrong with that. But science is NOT about personal revelations and subjective experiences; it's about following the scientific method and showing objective results. The fact that Newton was both a great physicist and a religious person is no more relevant than the fact that he was a great physicist and had a premature birth.

Newton was not, as far as I know, a numerologist, nor somebody who let mysticism get in the way of his scientific research. And thank goodness.

The other questions you posted have nothing to do with science.

Answer 3

As far as Physics and Calculus go, that guy deserves to be called the "Father" of them, for he discovered some of the (very) hard topics that I am studying right now in about two months.

As for predictions, the Book of Revelation says that you should not meddle or try to "figure things out". What is contained in the Book of Revelation is more difficult to understand than Linear Algebra, or Physics.

God's Word, against the weak minds that we have. Predictions are predicted to be wrong, even for Newton.

Answer 4

Could you give us some references, please ???