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Tertullian's theology was more similar to ours than I previously thought
He belived that the Son was a dinstinct and lesser divinity than the Father, who is Jehovah. He believed in the thousand-year reign of Christ on earth after the Great Tribulation. He rejected military service for Christians. He believed that the wine and bread used during the Memorial were symbols. And he denied Mary's perpetual virginity.
All of these doctrines were later dismissed with by the Catholic Church.
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He was an early developer of Trinitarian ideas. He taught that the Jehovah is the source, and Jesus comes from Him! A lot like a torch lit from a fire. Both sharing the same fire source. In this case divine nature, but the Jesus is subordinate in role, not a separate or lesser God. He also believe that Jesus existed before creation too. -
Speaking of the Father and the Son, Tertullian refers to two gods:
"'Therefore', thou sayest, 'if a god said and a god made, if one god said and another made, two gods are being preached.' If thou art so hard, think a little! And that thou mayest think more fully, accept that in the Psalm two gods are spoken of: 'Thy throne, God, is for ever, a sceptre of right direction is thy sceptre; thou hast loved justice and hast hated iniquity, therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee.'"
He also said: "There was a time when there was no Son and no sin, when God was neither Father nor Judge." https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14520c.htm
So he believed that the Son is a separate and lesser God. The torch lit from a fire comes from Justin Martyr btw, and he too belived that Jesus was a separate God:
"there is, and that there is said to be, another God and Lord subject to the Maker of all things; who is also called an Angel, because He announces to men whatsoever the Maker of all things— above whom there is no other God — wishes to announce to them." https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/01285.htm
Trinitarians cannot claim that these early christians shared the same ideas as them. In fact, about Tertullian the Wikipedia article says: "some of his teachings, such as the subordination of the Son and Spirit to the Father, were later rejected by the Catholic Church"
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