NEWTON DREW THE LINE
BETWEEN THE FALSE AND THE TRUE CHURCHES
Newton explained that one could have a personal relationship with God
through Jesus the Messiah. Frank E. Manuel comments on and quotes
Newton regarding this issue: "...one of the constants of his [Newton's]
religious and scientific outlook was embodied in the argument that God
is a Creator, a Master, that men have a personal relationship to..." Manuel
goes on to quote Newton as follows: "...I, Isaac Newton, the lad from
Lincolnshire, have a plain religious faith based on my personal obedience
to the Lord..."
In Newton's writings, he clearly draws a line between the true Church
of believers and the false church of history. The false church, due to its
corrupt leaders' wrongly contrived creeds and bizarre traditions, shows
itself to be counterfeit in accordance with the words of Jesus: "You shall
know them by their fruits..." (Matt 7:16). Newton has also inscribed
the following interesting and beautiful words concerning the prophetic
Scriptures and the true Church for us: "Having searched (and by the
grace of God obtained) after knowledge in the prophetic Scriptures, I have
thought myself bound to communicate it for the benefit of others...for
it was revealed to Daniel that the prophecies concerning the Last Times
should be closed up and sealed until the Time of the End: but then the wise
should understand, and knowledge should be increased (Dan 12:4, 9-10).
If they [the prophetic Scriptures] are never to be understood, to what end
did God reveal them? Certainly He did it for the edification of the Church;