...However, when he approved innovation, he did originate and advance new theology to the early Church. He is perhaps most famous for coining the term Trinity (Latin trinitas) and giving the first exposition of the formulaIn Adversus Praxean; see Barnes for a summary of the work.. Other formulations that first appear in his work are "three Persons, one Substance" as the Latin "tres Personae, una Substantia" (itself from the Koine Greek "treis Hypostases, Homoousios"), and also the terms vetus testamentum ("old testament") and novum testamentum ("new testament"). Read full entry
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Oh - thanx for that - I didn't realize Tertullian had said that. Oh yes - there will come a point where the environment will begin to slide and the human deaths will be in the millions per hour after a couple weeks of starvation and inadequate water. It's going to be awful - but people will apparently never control their own reproduction, and at this point the human population of this planet is beyond it's carrying capacity. So we all live on the last sliver of borrowed time. Too bad we threw away the last 8 years on the pin head we have at the moment in the White House. Maybe something could have been done - but that chance was thrown down the toilet so we could start more wars. |
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Did Tertullian deliberately I heard there was this Roman
guy named Tertullian who
basically mistranslated the
Hebrew Tanakh in order to
create a Greek "Old Testament"
which would validate the New
Testament of Christianity.
He did so because the actual
Hebrew Tanakh would prove that
Jesus was a false Messiah, but
in his real translation, Jesus
would be shown to be the REAL
Hebrew Messiah.
What do we know about
Tertullian?
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The Israelis themselves translated the Hebrew Bible into Greek before 200 BCE. The name of the translation is the Septuagint (the 70). [More books than the actual Hebrew cannon were translated.] At the time of Jesus, many Jews read from the Greek Septuagint rather than the Hebrew text. Tertullian had little to do with the Hebrew text or in "inventing" Christianity. By the time Tertullian wrote his commentaries, the writings of the New Testament were well established. English translation of the Hebrew/Aramaic Tanakh? Most modern English translations come from the Masoretic and Dead Sea Scroll Hebrew manuscripts. The JEWISH Septuagint is often also consulted when doing the translation to get a full sense of the text (especially since the Septuagint manuscripts predate the Masoretic Text or Dead Sea scrolls. Who was Tertullian? He lived in the late 2nd c and is known for his commentaries on the Scriptures. His commentaries are not taken as seriously as some of the earlier Christian writers like Polycarp (who knew and studied under John the Apostle -- writer of the gospel, 3 letters, and the Revelation in the Bible) because his analysis of the texts was sometimes flawed and often not very profound. |
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Jehovah's Witnesses and other Tertullian believed that Jesus
ws distinct from and inferior
to the Father
So what was he trying to prove
by applying this term to
Jehovah, Jesus, and the holy
spirit?
What error did he make?
Dreamweaver: ???? and about
Tertullian?
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Tertullian viewed the Son as subordinate to the Father. However, in his attempt to counteract modalism, he went “beyond the things that are written.” (1 Corinthians 4:6) As Tertullian erroneously sought to prove the divinity of Jesus by means of another theory, he coined the formula “one substance in three persons.” Using this concept, he attempted to show that God, his Son, and the holy spirit were three distinct persons existing in one divine substance. Tertullian thus became the first to apply the Latin form of the word “trinity” to the Father, the Son, and the holy spirit. |
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