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Christianity 1.0
We stand on the shoulders of giants. There have been many who have gone before us that have vied for an authentic Christianity, and we briefly summarize some of their most relevant history here.
Vigilantius
To our eyes, Vigilantius was Europe's first notable Christian reformer.
...he was born about 370, at Calagurris, near Convenæ (Comminges), which was a station on the Roman road from Aquitaine to Spain. His father was probably the keeper of the inn, and Vigilantius appears to have been brought up to his father's business. He was of a studious character, and Sulpicius Severus, the ecclesiastical historian, who had estates in those parts, took him into his service, and, possibly, made him manager of his estates. Having been ordained he was introduced to Jerome (then living at Bethlehem, in 395) through Paulinus of Nola, who was the friend of Sulpicius Severus. After staying with Jerome for a considerable time he begged to be dismissed, and left in great haste without giving any reason...
The points against which he argued as being superstitious are: (1) the reverence paid to the relics of holy men by carrying them round the church in costly vessels or silken wrappings to be kissed, and the prayers offered to the dead; (2) the late watchings at the basilicas of the martyrs, with their attendant [homosexual] scandals, the burning of numerous tapers. alleged miracles, etc.; (3) the sending of alms to Jerusalem, which, Vigilantius urged, had better be spent among the poor in each separate diocese, and the monkish vow of poverty; (4) the exaggerated estimate of virginity.
- Vigilantius and his times : Gilly, William Stephen, 1789-1855
- https://archive.org/details/vigilantiusandh00gillgoog
- https://books.google.com/books/about/Vigilantius_and_His_Times.html?id=--P44-tbb20C
Waldensees
Bishop Ambrose
Valentinius Palo of Nola
Anabaptists
Christadelphians
William Tyndale
Issac Newton
Issac Newton was one of the greatest mathematicians of his age.
(1John 5:7) in the KJV, called the Johannine Comma was added in Erasmus' 3rd edition of the Greek text (effectively the TR of the day for the English, French and German reformation bibles), without explication, he having said explicitly before that he would not add it to his 2nd edition - "it was omitted in his first and second editions".
Newton wrote a lengthy essay on it, which he called a pious fraud, but didn't dare publish the essay in England, because the fraud was then being used by the episcopals to support the Trinity. Pious fraud was the best they could do, but they backed it up by up to life in prison for those who denied it. Newton saw what happened to his former protogé Whiston, who was more courageous and more overtly honest than he was.
William Whiston
William Whiston was one of the greatest mathematicians of his age, and one of the greatest truth-telling english Christians of any age.
Whiston completed a complete translation of the New Testament which is an English translation based on Codex Bezae.
- https://archive.org/search?query=whiston%20william
- Mr. Whiston's letter to the Right Honourable the Earl of Nottingham, concerning the eternity of the Son of God, and of the Holy Spirit. The fourth edition, improved.