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Originally Posted by entruil
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Yeah gnostic or agnostic, somewhere in there. A lot of jews have been that way, actually. "synagogues of satan" wasn't just said flippantly. Some of the Sadducee were gnostic (of sorts), agnostic, atheists (why they were "sad, you see?"). You could even say much of the same for the pharisees since they really loved money and power through the law. Wasn't all jews, but the sects were rampant with it. This hasn't really ever changed the past 2k years. Albert was just a product of it through his upbringing, never really converted to something else.
Now Newton on the other hand, as far as his futurist belief, he believed in a restoration (to the land) and future conversion of the jews. So he believed in some literal interpretations of Christianity and futurism, but didn't hold a purely preterist view in that it had already been fulfilled during the first century at the destruction of the temple. Most of Christendom if including the RCC consists of partial preterism as most reject the millennial kingdom. This is where a lot of the conversion by the sword came out of, to establish a converted world and then an end being expected, final judgement etc. That while futurists typically believe Christ himself will establish the millennial kingdom and reign in the physical with no forced conversion leading to it.
But to add, whatever they believed, they both contributed much to our understanding regarding science and nature. It's hard to pick one over the other, almost impossible, as well as not mentioning others which is almost deplorable hehe. Like what of Alan Turing? Just think if he had invented the Turing Machine during the renaissance, we'd be like Steam Punk and all now hehe.