cred•i•bil•i•ty n.
1. The quality, capability, or power to elicit belief: “America’s credibility must not be squandered, especially by its leaders” Henry A. Kissinger.
2. A capacity for belief: a story that strained our credibility.

I suppose “trustworthiness” is even more appropriate, in this circumstance, than “power to elicit belief”. So I recognize I was being just unduly fussy.

Newton was certainly (albeit secretly) anti-trinitarian. Whether he was Strict Monotheist (viz. he believed that Jesus is Son of God only in the domain of time, that is only since he was born from Mary) or rather Arian (viz. he believed the Son was not fully God, yet the first, fully spiritual, creature of God, by means of whom all the rest of creation had been carried out; and only secondarily “son” in the sense of “born of a woman”), is still a subject for debate.

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And what’s your problem with ‘credence’? One of its meanings is ‘something supporting a claim to belief, recommendation’. I see no problem.

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And the Copernican revolution is just a term for a process of discovery which, in many ways, still continues.

This is wrong, but I won’t dispute it, unless you insist.

And are you claiming that if some notion is in the Bible, then that lends it a credence [sic] not to be found elsewhere? And that you reject (if you do indeed reject) the Trinity because it’s not in the Bible?

I have already (not only claimed but) argued that the biblical God YHWH, to be found in the Bible, is incompatible with any form (“christian” or Egyptian or other) of Trinity. I claim that Strict Monotheism (non-trinitarian) is the only authentic form of Christianity (although probably recognized by less than 1% Christians). It is not a problem of credibility, but of compatibility

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It is indeed an excellent book. And the Copernican revolution is just a term for a process of discovery which, in many ways, still continues.

And are you claiming that if some notion is in the Bible, then that lends it a credence not to be found elsewhere? And that you reject (if you do indeed reject) the Trinity because it’s not in the Bible?

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Jack,

must confess that mine was a deliberate, calculated provocation, to see if you would endorse the “stuff” the you were reporting. I am kind of relieved to find out that you do not share the rather fantastic things you were “throwing into the pot”.

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I dare say there is (a specific idea), so much so that we still speak of “Copernican revolution”. That it was not original, that Aristarchus of Samos (310-230 BCE) had already proposed at the time of Hellenistic civilization, does not change the fact that it was revolutionary, even in his days: and Aristarchus was in fact ostracized, and his heliocentric model of the solar system soon forgotten, or rather ignored. For an excellent depiction of all this see Arthur Koestler: The Sleepwalkers. A History of Man’s Changing Vision of the Universe .

You may dismiss it as ‘heathen’, but that’s like dismissing something because it’s ‘French’. It is of no consequence where an idea comes from, or who has it. It’s only the idea that matters. [idlex]

I am not ‘dismissing’ the Trinity because it is ‘heathen’: if you read carefully I am claiming that it is (heathen), and therefore, that it has got nothing to do with the Bible and with the strict monotheist notion of God (YHWH) that is found there. Of course one can make the desperate attempt to claim that YHWH is a “local Palestinian disguise” for the Egyptian God Aten, but I claim all this is nothing but hocus-pocus, and worse. An indirect evidence is that one of the most vocal supporters of this “theory” was Savitri Devi (see her book Son of the Sun: The Life and Philosophy of Akhnaton, King of Egypt- and Wikipedia’s entry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savitri_Devi_Mukherji ), a woman of mixed ethnicity (French, English, Italian and Greek blood) and enthusiast of a concoction of esoteric Hindu and Nazi doctrines.

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Talking about “corns”, what about “crop circles”? What about the “saucer frienzy” in the 40-50′s? Anything would do, as Carl Jung argued. People crave the supernatural or at least to find out that we are not alone in the Universe, on Earth, this “small flower bed that makes us all so wild” (l’aiuola che ci fa tanto feroci), as Dante put it in his Divine Comedy

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There are people who say that the Egyptian chronology is wrong too.

But I’ve read that there are no known reports from Egypt of the eruption of Thera. However if it happened during the Hyksos intermediate period, when Egypt was occupied, there may well not have been a system of reporting active.

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