Four and a half centuries ago in Geneva, they used green wood to burn Miguel Servet [also commonly known as Michael Servetus] alive. He had gone there to escape the Inquisition, but Calvin sent him to the stake.
Servet believed no one should be baptized before becoming an adult, he had doubts about the “mystery of the Holy Trinity”, and he stubbornly insisted on teaching that blood flows through the heart and is purified in the lungs.
His heresies condemned him to the life of a gypsy. Before they caught up with him, he’d changed countries, homes, trades and names many times.
Servet was burned on a slow fire along with the books he had written. On the cover of one of them was an engraving of Samson carrying a tremendous heavy door on his back [an allusion to Judges 16:1-3]. Underneath, it said, “I carry my freedom with me.”
The Origin of the Organic World – Part One