Isaac Newton's Rejection of the Trinity Doctrine

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"Also at this time, the Archbishop of Canterbury offered him the position of Master of Trinity. Newton was forced to refuse this honor because he would have had to take holy orders and, as is known from his secret papers; he harbored doubts about orthodox Protestantism.  In particular, he did not accept the concept of the Trinity.” 1
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“An important feature of grammar school education in the seventeenth century was the reading of the Bible.  It is known that Isaac studied the Bible, in the classical tongues, and developed a lifelong interest in theological questions.” 2
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“He abjured this central dogma of his religion: three persons in one Godhead, holy and undivided.  He denied the divinity of Jesus and of the Holy Ghost.” 3
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“He compared the Scriptures in the new English translation and in the ancient languages; he collected Bibles in Latin, Greek, Hebrew and French.  He sought out and mastered the writings of the early fathers of the church...” 4
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“...Arius was excommunicated and condemned.  His writings were burned.  But enough survived to persuade Newton, brooding over them a millennium later, that the Trinitarians had carried out a fraud upon Christianity.  The fraud had been perfected by monks and popes.  The word TRINITY never appears in the New Testament.  For explicit foundation in Scriptures, the orthodox looked to the First Epistle of John:

‘For there are three that bear record in Heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.’ 

Only the King James Version had the last phrase.  Newton’s critical reading persuaded him that the original texts had been deliberately debased in support of false doctrine a false infernal religion.” 5
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“He marshaled his arguments and numbered them:

1.  The [word] God is no where in the scriptures used to signify more than one of the three persons at once.

2.  The word God put absolutely without particular restriction to the Son or Holy Ghost doth always signify the Father from one end of the scriptures to the other ...

6.  The son confesseth the father greater than him [and] calls Him his God ...

11. The son in all things submits to the will of the father, which could be unreasonable if he were equal to the father.” 6
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“He felt Trinitarianism not just an error but as sin, and the sin was idolatry.  For Newton this was the most detested of crimes.” 7
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“They discussed theology -- [John] Locke amazed at the depth of Newton’s biblical knowledge and these paragons of rationality found themselves kindred spirits in the dangerous area of anti-Trinitarianism.”8
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“On his deathbed he refused the sacrament of the church.” 9
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FOOTNOTES:

1 Heisenberg Probably Slept Here, chapter titled: Isaac Newton. page 37, by Richard P. Brennan, 1997, John Wiley & Sons Inc, ISBN 0-471-15709-0

2 ibid, page 16

3 Isaac Newton, page 107, by James Gleick, Pantheon Books, year 2003, New York, ISBN 0-375-42233-1

4 ibid, page 109

5 ibid, page 110

6 ibid, page 111

7 ibid, page 113

8 ibid, page 145

9 ibid, page 190

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