I don’t want to defend the execution of Servetus. The greatest heroes of the faith are still merely men. Edwards owned a slave, Luther became anti-Semitic, Peter stopped eating with gentiles. I wouldn’t do any of those things today but would I have had I lived at those times? I don’t know. It’s easy to judge the past based on our contemporary sensibilities, it is harder to see our own faults in our own time. I am afraid to ask the Lord to show me mine.
I don’t want to defend the execution of Servetus. The greatest heroes of the faith are still merely men. Edwards owned a slave, Luther became anti-Semitic, Peter stopped eating with gentiles. I wouldn’t do any of those things today but would I have had I lived at those times? I don’t know. It’s easy to judge the past based on our contemporary sensibilities, it is harder to see our own faults in our own time. I am afraid to ask the Lord to show me mine.