Sunday, December 23, 2018

Johann Sylvan - Unitarian Martyr


Johann Sylvan was executed on this day in 1572 because he did not believe in the Trinity.

He was tasked with the job of refuting Giorgio Biandrata's anti-trinitarian writings. While doing so however he was converted to the rationality of non-trinitarianism, even to the point of writing a manifesto entitled True Christian Confession of the Ancient Faith of the One True God and of Messiah Jesus of the True Christ, against the Three-Person Idol and the Two-Natured False Deity of the Antichrist.

Many in the past have rejected the silliness of the Trinity doctrine, including such great figures as the brilliant physician Michael Servetus, Isaac Newton, Thomas Jefferson etc. It is sad to think that some had to die for this position.


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