Joseph Priestley Quotes
We find upon all occasions, the early Christian writers speak of the Father as superior to the Son, and in general they give him the title of God , as distinguished from the Son; and sometimes they expressly call him, exclusively of the Son, the only true God ; a phraseology which does not at all accord with the idea of the perfect equality of all the persons in the Trinity. But it might well be expected, that the advances to the present doctrine of the Trinity should be gradual and slow. It was, indeed, some centuries before it was completely formed.
Priestley, Joseph. An History of the Corruptions of Christianity. Vol. 1, J. Johnson, 1782, p. 37.
Some Muslims believe that since God prohibits the worship of symbols and idols, no Christian who believes in the Trinity could be a believer. For those Muslims who not only determine Islamic theology but Christian theology as well, this becomes another reason for disrespect if not hatred of Christians.
Joseph Priestley FRS was an English chemist, natural philosopher, separatist theologian, grammarian, multi-subject educator, and liberal political theorist who published over 150 works. He has historically been credited with the discovery of oxygen, having isolated it in its gaseous state, although Carl Wilhelm Scheele and Antoine Lavoisier also have strong claims to the discovery, Scheele having discovered it in 1772, two years before Priestley.
