NEWTON,
SIR ISAAC

(December 25, 1642–March 20, 1727), was a mathematician and natural philosopher who discovered of the laws of universal gravitation, formulated the three laws of motion, which aided in advancing the discipline of dynamics, and helped develop calculus into a comprehensive branch of mathematics. He went to Trinity College, Cambridge, 1661; retired to Woolsthorp, Lincolnshire, during the Plague, 1665–66; and became a fellow, 1667. He was honored to occupy the Lucasian Chair of Mathematics, 1669, and was elected Fellow of the Royal Society, 1672. He was given the position of Master of the Mint, 1699, and in 1701, entered Parliament. In 1703, Sir Issac Newton became the President of the Royal Society. He constructed the first reflecting telescope, laid the foundation for the great law of energy conservation and developed the particle theory of light propagation.

In 1704, in his work entitled, Optics, Sir Isaac Newton stated:

God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, movable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportion to space, as most conduced to the end for which he formed them.330

Sir Isaac Newton asserted:

We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy. I find more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history whatsoever. … Worshipping God and the Lamb in the temple: God, for his benefaction in creating all things, and the Lamb, for his benefaction in redeeming us with his blood.331

There is one God, the Father, ever-living, omnipresent, omniscient, almighty, the Maker of heaven and earth, and one Mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus. …

To us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by Him. That is, we are to worship the Father alone as God Almighty, and Jesus alone as the Lord, the Messiah, the Great King, the Lamb of God who was slain, and hath redeemed us with His blood, and made us kings and priests.332

The Book of Revelation exhibits to us the same peculiarities as that of Nature. … The history of the Fall of Man—of the introduction of moral and physical evil, the prediction of the Messiah, the actual advent of our Saviour, His instructions, His miracles, His death, His resurrection, and the subsequent propagation of His religion by the unlettered fishermen of Galilee, are each a stumbling-block to the wisdom of this world. …

But through 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, and developed in all its order and beauty the great plan of human restoration.333

In describing Sir Isaac Newton, the Encyclopedia of Philosophy stated:

Newton himself was a student of Old Testament prophecies and believed in the Scriptures as inerrant guides.334