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Su Zhou was taken aback.

12 month 25 day.

A little-known fact suddenly popped into his head: Newton actually had two birthdays.

一个是儒略曆的1642年12月25日，另一个是格里高利曆的1643年1月4日。

Since Britain has not yet adopted the Gregorian calendar, Newton himself must have used the former.

However, most countries in later generations used the Gregorian calendar, so Newton's birthday became January 4th.

"Mr. Newton, I've heard that some scholars believe that, according to the new calendar revised by the Vatican, your birthday should actually be in early January?" Su Zhou asked tentatively.

"You're talking about the Gregorian calendar."

Newton nodded: "In 1582, Pope Gregory XIII ordered a revision of the calendar, eliminating the ten-day error accumulated in the Julian calendar all at once. Catholic countries such as France, Spain, and Italy quickly followed suit."

He paused for a moment, then said in a flat tone, "But Britain doesn't."

Su Zhou understood that Britain was a Protestant country, and getting the British to listen to the Pope was harder than getting them to admit that their food was bad.

"The Julian calendar has a leap year every four years, which is a simple rule, but it will have an extra three days of deviation every four hundred years."

"The Gregorian calendar corrected this problem by only including leap years in the century years that are divisible by 400. Mathematically speaking, it is indeed more accurate."

"But you prefer the Julian calendar?"

Newton paused for a moment, then admitted it.

He did not explain why.

But Su Zhou had already guessed it.

December 25th is Christmas Day, the birthday of Jesus.

According to the Gregorian calendar, Newton's birthday would be January 4th, an ordinary day. However, according to the Julian calendar, he was born on the same day as Jesus.

For someone who has devoted their life to the study of theology, the implications of this coincidence are self-evident.

As a modern person, Su Zhou naturally knew about the secrets of Newton.

For example, in Newton's manuscripts, theological works far outweigh his physics and mathematics works. For example, he spent decades studying the chronology of the Bible and the architectural structure of Solomon's Temple. For example, he spent so many years at Trinity College, Cambridge, yet he opposed the concept of the Trinity from the bottom of his heart.

The Trinity, one of the core doctrines of Christianity, refers to the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit as three persons of the same God.

But Newton didn't believe it.

He believed that Jesus was not God himself, but the first being created by God, the most perfect creation, but ultimately a creation, not the creator.

This view was called Arianism at the time, and it was considered utter heresy.

If this gets made public, it will be no small matter.

Therefore, Newton kept this secret very well hidden his entire life.

He wrote millions of words of theological manuscripts, but never published a single word of them during his lifetime.

Thinking about this, Su Zhou decided to take a gamble.

"December 25th? Born on the same day as Jesus, what a coincidence!"

Newton's finger twitched slightly.

"Who is Jesus' father? It is God. In a secular sense, he was also a child without a father."

Su Zhou said, "He grew up in Nazareth, a poor and remote place where he was looked down upon. The original words in the Gospel of John are, 'What good can come out of Nazareth?'"

"But it was this very person who changed the whole world."

Su Zhou paused for a moment.

"Looking at it this way, you are one too."

The flames danced in the fireplace, casting the shadows of the two people on the wall, sometimes long, sometimes short.

Upon hearing this, a glimmer of light appeared in Newton's eyes, which had become dull and cloudy from days of staying up late and mental exhaustion.

He turns fifty-four today, long past the age where he is easily swayed by others.

As a renowned scientific giant in Europe, what kind of flattery hadn't he heard?

Ironically, Su Zhou's words were exactly what he wanted to hear.

Because he did indeed have a start that was strikingly similar to that of Jesus.

Jesus had no father in the secular sense, and Isaac Newton was also a posthumous child who never even met his biological father. Jesus was born in the poor and remote Nazareth, while Isaac Newton was born in the remote and backward village of Ursop.

Jesus was not favored by others from a young age, and when he was three years old, his biological mother remarried and left him with his maternal grandmother. In that cold childhood, the young Newton, full of wonderful ideas, was also an absolute oddball.

Most importantly, Su Zhou said they all changed the world.

Seeing that Newton was gradually concentrating, Su Zhou knew he had hit the jackpot, so he struck while the iron was hot.

"Besides, mathematics doesn't lie."

Su Zhou added a piece of firewood to the fireplace and casually remarked, "One plus one plus one equals three. How could it possibly equal one? The Holy See's concept of the Trinity is logically untenable. What do you think?"

Newton froze. The slight color that had returned to his face after eating the hot soup and bread vanished instantly from his gaunt and harsh expression. He stared intently at Su Zhou.

This is 17th-century England!

If someone publicly denies the core Christian doctrine of the Trinity, they are a clear Arian heretic. Even if they are a bigwig at the Royal Society, they could be stripped of their teaching position at Cambridge in a heartbeat, or even be sent to the gallows!

"You…" Newton's voice was a little dry, and his thin fingers unconsciously gripped the back of the chair. "What nonsense are you spouting?"

"Mr. Newton, there are no outsiders here; I was just saying."

"No matter how perfect the Son of God is, he is only the first and highest-level creation of God. To let the all-knowing and all-powerful Creator personally descend to earth to suffer and even be nailed to the cross is the greatest blasphemy against God."

"Jesus is the eldest brother and the guide, but he is not God himself."

Newton took a deep breath.

For decades, he wore out the Bible, wrote secret manuscripts that he dared not even typeset or print, and guarded against everyone around him like a thief every day, all to hide this shocking and unconventional true belief.

He never dreamed that he would be completely exposed by a young man from the East today!

Not only did he point it out, but the other party's theory was exactly the same as his!

"You...you think so too?" Newton swallowed.

He had been walking alone in the darkness for half a century, never expecting to suddenly encounter a kindred spirit!

Maybe his appearance in group 42 is God's will!

Su Zhou looked sincerely at this genius in the history book: "There must always be someone in this world to protect the most original and purest truths, even if they are covered up by worldly prejudices."

Newton firmly believed that he was the chosen one, tasked with restoring Christianity to its original form.

Now that Su Zhou has pointed it out, he feels even more that he has a sacred mission on his shoulders!

All those splitting headaches, all that neurasthenia, all that mess at the mint—they were all thrown to the winds!

"You're right...you're absolutely right!" Newton stood up excitedly, his previously dim eyes now shining brightly.

He's finally found his people!

"From the Council of Nicaea in the fourth century AD, they have been distorting the doctrine! Those fools have defiled the faith with false idolatry! I have proven this long ago, but those ignorant people simply cannot understand!"

He paced back and forth in the room, restless and excited, muttering to himself, as if he had returned to the peak state of enlightenment he had experienced under the apple tree in Cambridge in his twenties.

"I can't fall down, I absolutely can't fall down now."

Newton stopped in his tracks, his thin fists clenched tightly, his tone radiating an almost childish sense of sacred mission: "The Bible's code hasn't been cracked, and God's original manuscript still needs me to reveal it to the world! How can I be defeated by a mere criminal!"

"I don't know what he'll do next; I need to think about it."

Seeing this, Su Zhou knew that he had successfully awakened the immature Newton within him.

So he casually mentioned what he knew: "Mr. Newton, Charoner will be called to testify at a hearing, and it will be against you."

Newton stopped in his tracks.

"What did you say?"