 Sir Isaac Newton died MARCH 20, 1727.
With
his mother widowed twice, he had been raised by his grandmother before
being sent off to grammar school and later Cambridge.
A
discoverer of calculus, Newton described universal gravitation, the
three laws of motion, and built one of the first practical reflecting
telescopes.
Using a prism, Newton demonstrated that a beam of light contained all the colors of the rainbow.
President
of the Royal Society from 1703 till his death, Sir Isaac Newton wrote
one of the most important scientific books ever written, Principia,
1687, in which he stated:
"This most beautiful system of the
sun, planets, and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and
dominion of an intelligent Being...
All variety of created
objects which represent order and life in the universe could happen only
by the willful reasoning of its original Creator, whom I call the Lord
God."
In Optics, 1704, Newton wrote:
"God in the beginning formed matter."
Sir Isaac Newton devoted more time to the study of Scripture than to science:
"I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily."
Captivated
by Bible Prophecy, Sir Isaac Newton wrote, Observations on the
Prophecies of Daniel and the Apocalypse of St. John (published in 1733),
in which he wrote:
"Daniel was in the greatest credit amongst
the Jews...And to reject his prophecies, is to reject the Christian
religion. For this religion is founded upon his prophecy concerning the
Messiah."
Newton concluded his introductory chapter:
"Daniel
is most distinct in order of time, and easiest to be understood, and
therefore in those things which relate to the last times, he must be
made the key to the rest."
Regarding the Bible, Newton wrote:
"The
system of revealed truth which this Book contains is like that of the
universe, concealed from common observation yet the labors of the
centuries have established its Divine origin."
In A Short Scheme of the True Religion, Sir Isaac Newton wrote:
"Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors." |
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