We thank Fate and Destiny for She has given us wisdom and freedom from Religious bigotry. If it wasn't for the brave people of long time ago the world will be under the power of these Demons clothed in sheep's clothing.
read this and you'll know what I mean...from WiKi...
Michael Servetus (also
Miguel Servet or
Miguel Serveto; 29 September 1511 – 27 October 1553) was a
Spanish (
Aragonese)
theologian,
physician,
cartographer, and
humanist. He was the first European to describe the function of
pulmonary circulation. His interests included many sciences:
astronomy and
meteorology;
geography,
jurisprudence, study of the
Bible,
mathematics,
anatomy, and
medicine. He is renowned in the history of several of these fields, particularly medicine and theology. He participated in the
Protestant Reformation, and later developed a
nontrinitarian Christology. Condemned by
Catholics and
Protestants alike, he was arrested in
Geneva and burnt at the stake as a
heretic by order of the Protestant
Geneva governing council.
Servetus rejected the belief of the
Trinity, stating that it was not based on the
Bible. He argued that it arose from teachings of (Greek)
philosophers, and he advocated a return to the simplicity of the
Gospels and the teachings of the early
Church Fathers that he believed pre-dated the development of trinitarianism. Servetus hoped that the dismissal of the Trinitarian dogma would make Christianity more appealing to believers in
Judaism and
Islam, which had preserved the unity of God in their teachings. According to Servetus, trinitarians had turned Christianity into a form of "tritheism", or belief in three gods. Servetus affirmed that the divine
Logos, the manifestation of God and not a separate divine Person, was incarnated in a human being, Jesus, when God's spirit came into the womb of the
Virgin Mary. Only from the moment of conception, was the Son actually generated. Therefore the Son was not eternal, but only the Logos from which He was formed. For this reason, Servetus always rejected calling Christ the "
eternal Son of God" but rather called him "the Son of the eternal God."
[5] In describing Servetus' view of the Logos,
Andrew Dibb explained: "In 'Genesis' God reveals himself as the creator. In 'John' he reveals that he created by means of the Word, or Logos. Finally, also in 'John', he shows that this Logos became flesh and 'dwelt among us'. Creation took place by the spoken word, for God said "Let there be ..." The spoken word of Genesis, the Logos of John, and the Christ, are all one and the same."
[6]
Servetus was condemned on two counts, for spreading and preaching
Nontrinitarianism and anti-
paedobaptism (anti-infant baptism).
[20] Of paedobaptism Servetus had said, "It is an invention of the devil, an infernal falsity for the destruction of all Christianity."
[21] In the case the
procureur général (chief public prosecutor) added some curious sounding accusations in the form of inquiries—the most odd sounding perhaps being, "whether he has married, and if he answers that he has not, he shall be asked why, in consideration of his age, he could refrain so long from marriage." To this oblique imputation of unchastity, Servetus replied that rupture had long since made him incapable of that particular sin. More offensive to modern ears might be the question "whether he did not know that his doctrine was pernicious, considering that he favours Jews and
Turks, by making excuses for them, and if he has not studied the
Koran in order to disprove and controvert the doctrine and religion that the Christian churches hold, together with other profane books, from which people ought to abstain in matters of religion, according to the doctrine of
St. Paul." Calvin believed Servetus deserving of death on account of what he termed as his "execrable blasphemies".
[22] Calvin expressed these sentiments in a letter to
Farel, written about a week after Servetus’ arrest, in which he also mentioned an exchange with Servetus.
Calvin wrote:
“ ...after he [Servetus] had been recognized, I thought he should be detained. My friend
Nicolas summoned him on a capital charge, offering himself as a security according to the
lex talionis. On the following day he adduced against him forty written charges. He at first sought to evade them. Accordingly we were summoned. He impudently reviled me, just as if he regarded me as obnoxious to him. I answered him as he deserved... of the man’s effrontery I will say nothing; but such was his madness that he did not hesitate to say that devils possessed divinity; yea, that many gods were in individual devils, inasmuch as a deity had been substantially communicated to those equally with wood and stone. I hope that sentence of death will at least be passed on him; but I desired that the severity of the punishment be mitigated.
[23]
Whoever shall maintain that wrong is done to heretics and blasphemers in punishing them makes himself an accomplice in their crime and guilty as they are. There is no question here of man's authority; it is God who speaks, and clear it is what law he will have kept in the church, even to the end of the world. Wherefore does he demand of us a so extreme severity, if not to show us that due honor is not paid him, so long as we set not his service above every human consideration, so that we spare not kin, nor blood of any, and forget all humanity when the matter is to combat for His glory.
[27]
more on John Calvin....(google his name)
Calvin wrote to William Farel that “if he [Servetus] shall come [to Geneva], I shall never permit him to depart alive, provided my authority be of any avail”
on luther....
Luther wrote against the “Against the Robbing and Murdering Hordes of Peasants” and said “Let whoever can stab, smite, slay. If you die in doing it, good for you! A more blessed death can never be yours…” There is no record of Luther repenting for encouraging the killing of the peasants. In fact, he later stated “I, Martin Luther, have shed the blood of the rebellious peasants; for I commanded them to be killed. Their blood is indeed upon my head; but I put it upon the Lord God, by whose command I spoke” (Table Talk, p. 276. Eisleben edition).
unfortunately these kind of people still exist today. dili lang kalihok kay piti man sila sa balaod.