On this day, 473 years ago, Michael Servetus was burned at the stake in Geneva, Switzerland following his condemnation for heresy. A reminder that religious authority is no substitute for biblical truth and that freedom of conscience must never depend upon theological agreement.

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On October 23, 1553, the Geneva Council, in the case against Michael Servetus, reviewed the responses of four Swiss Protestant cities. The ministers of Zürich urged Geneva to prevent the teachings of Servetus from spreading and argued that the Swiss churches needed to demonstrate that they did not tolerate heresy. One account has them saying “Holy Providence at this time affords you an opportunity of freeing yourselves and us from that injurious suspicion.” Why? Michael Servetus rejected the Trinity doctrine.

I’m confident Thomas Jefferson would say about Joseph Smith, Brigham Young and the Mormons in general “I believe, we are told in the old Book that ‘every man that is mad, & maketh himself a prophet, thou shouldest put him in prison & in the stocks.’”

Yes. You can articulate Christianity without appealing to philosophical categories of being, essence or substance. R. C. Sproul, however, could not explain the Trinity without them.

Why are you convinced that the trinity is unbiblical?

“Angel of the Lord” nonsense at it’s finest.

In the 2nd century, the boundaries of Christian orthodoxy were still developing.

True Christians can be one, just as God and Jesus are one.

We know who God is and he isn’t a trinity.