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Una breve biografia di Michael Servetus (1511-1553)

Michael Servetus è stato sopportato in Villaneueva in Spagna in 1511. Era il figlio del giudice locale. Ha vissuto in un momento in cui ci era agitazione nella chiesa stabilita ed in un periodo in cui tutto stava mettendo in discussione la natura di Christianity. Mentre si è sviluppato più vecchio e più informed, il giovane Servetus appalled dallo spargimento dell'anima dai cristiani verso i musulmani e gli ebrei. Immagini il suo eccitamento quando, sull'esaminare la bibbia più in modo approfondito, ha trovato che la dottrina di trinità era in nessun posto una parte del relativo insegnamento. Più ulteriormente ha scoperto che la bibbia non ha sostenuto sempre che cosa stava insegnando dalla chiesa.

Michael Servetus ha scritto ai capi della riforma, a Calvin e a Luther, nelle speranze che il movimento protestante girerà Unitarian. Alas, le menti dei capi della riforma ancora sono state bloccate in metafisica falsa. Ha trovato che sia Luther che Calvin avranno niente a che fare con la sua credenza nell'unità del dio.

Le origini “degli errori della trinità„

Servetus ha viaggiato per cercare coloro che apr-si è occupato di abbastanza per ascoltare che cosa era sicuro era il Christianity allineare come insegnato da Jesus e perfino ha avuto una corrispondenza con Calvin. Tuttavia, tutti i suoi influenzare la gente tramite il contatto personale hanno fallito. Severtus più successivamente ha continuato pubblicare i suoi punti di vista in un libro che ha denominato gli errori di trinità. Il risultato era che la chiesa ha perseguitato Servetus da un posto ad un altro. Servetus più successivamente è stato bloccato a Ginevra, ha trovato colpevole del heresy alla sua prova ed è stato eseguito dalla legatura al tronco di un albero ed essere bruciato sul ventiseiesimo dell'ottobre 1553.

“Gli errori della trinità„

Alcuni brani dagli errori della trinità, che ha causato tali azioni violente, segue. Servetus scrive:

I filosofi hanno inventato terzo essere separato allineare e realmente distinti dagli altri due, che hanno denominato la terza persona, o dallo spirito santo e contrived così una trinità immaginaria, tre esseri in una natura. But in reality three Gods, or one threefold God, are foisted upon us under the pretence, and in the name of Unity…For with them it is very easy, taking the words in their strict sense, for three beings to exist, which they say and yet strictly, simply, and really, so different or distinct yet one is born of another, and yet all these three are shut up in one jar. Since I am unwilling to mis-use the word Persons, I shall call them the first being, the second being and the third being, for in the Scripture I find no other name for them…Admitting thefore these three, which after their fashion they call Persons, they freely admit a plurality of beings, a plurality of entities, a plurality of Essences, a plurality of substances, and taking the word of God strictly, they will have a plurality of Gods.

He continues:

If this is so, then why the Tritorites are blamed, who say that there are three Gods, for they also contrive three Gods or one threefold one. These threefold Gods of theirs form one composite substance. And although some will not use the word implying that these three have been put together, yet they do use a word that they are constituted together and that God is constituted out of three beings. It is clear therefore that they are Tritories and we have a threefold God. We have become Atheists, man without any God. For as soon as we try to think about God, we are turned aside to three phantoms, so that no kind of unity remains in our conception. What else is being without God but being unable to think about God, when there is always present to our understanding a haunting kind of confusion of three beings, by which we are forever deluded into supposing that we are thinking about God…They seem to be living in another world when they dream of such things for the kingdom of heavens knows none of this nonsense and it is in another way unknown to them, that Scripture speaks of the Holy Spirit.

He adds:

How much this tradition of Trinity has alas, alas! been the laughing stock of Mohammedons only God knows. The Jews also shrink from giving adherence to this fancy of ours, and laugh at our foolishness about the Trinity, and on account of its blasphemies, they do not believe that this is the Messiah promised in their Law. And not only the Mohammedons and the Hebrews, but the very beasts of the field, would make fun of us, did they grasp our fantastic notion, for all the workers of the Lord bless the One God…This most burning plague, therefore, was added and superimposed, as it were, on the new gods which have recently come, which our fathers did not worship. And this plague of philosophy was brought upon us by the Greeks, for they above all men are most given to philosophy; and we, hanging upon their lips, have become philosophers, and they never understood the passages of the Scriptures which they adduced with regard to this matter.

Servetus also stressed what he believed to be the true nature of Jesus:

Some are scandalised at my calling Christ the prophet, because they happen not themselves to apply to him the epithet, they fancy that all who do so are chargeable with Judaism and Mohametism, regardless of the fact that the Scriptures and ancient writers call him the prophet.

Conclusions

The writings of Michael Servetus’ The Errors of the Trinity certainly shows that there are those who calls themselves Christians and are yet not blinded by the faults of the Trinitarian dogma. One would no doubt wonder why the Church resorted to persecuting Michael Servetus and his anti-Trinitarian writings instead of debating about it in a scholarly manner, if the Church is certain that the doctrine is undisputable and is indeed an inherent part of the Christian faith.

Reference

As reproduced & adapted from Muhammad `Ata ur-Rahim, Jesus A Prophet of Islam, pp. 112-121