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I just replied to a comment on the website and used these words about Isaac Newton. It is about his view on the Trinity. Although this thread is not about that, it is about the man himself and thus I include it to give you an idea about what sort of person he was.
Newton also didn’t believe in the Trinity and just assumed that most were to easily deceived. But denying the Trinity was heretical, and so Newton remained extremely cautious about his views. His beliefs on the Trinity, and his notes on it were not found until after his death.
Newton wondered why a metaphysical concept imported from Greek philosophy, a practice of which he was extremely suspicious was taught as truth when there was shaky inference in scripture: He insisted “the true faith was in the text.”
He blamed both Athanasius and Arius for distorting Scripture when, in the fourth century, they “introduced metaphysical subtleties into their disputes and corrupted the plain language of Scripture.” Their debate which gave rise to the Trinity Doctrine had more in common with Plato and Aristotle than with Jesus. Newton asked whether “Christ sent his apostles to preach metaphysics to the unlearned people, and to their wives and children?”
Newton also said that the two main scriptural proof texts for the Trinity were corrupted by supporters of the doctrine. In a letter to John Locke called “Two Notable Corruptions of Scripture”, he outlines how 1 John 5:7 and 1 Timothy 3:16 may have been altered. And guess what, he was absolutely correct. Later on when older texts were discovered and in 1948 when the Dead Sea Scrolls were found, they proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that these 2 proof texts were indeed corruptions.
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