Did Tertullian Teach the Trinity? Part 6

[@gbengoosewuru4139]

Do you have a reference you can share about the father and jesus having separate divine minds and wills?

[@donske2777]

Source, trust me bro

[@gbengoosewuru4139]

Rob and Eric, while looking for the Tertullian quote I stumbled upon another NUGGET from Tertullian and I think I found the quote you referenced. This is in Tertullians writing titled, "Against Praxeas" "Then, therefore, does the Word also Himself assume His own form and glorious garb, His own sound and vocal utterance, when God says, Let there be light. Genesis 1:3 This is the perfect nativity of the Word, when He proceeds forth from God - formed by Him first to devise and think out all things under the name of Wisdom - The Lord created or formed me as the beginning of His ways; Proverbs 8:22 then afterward begotten, to carry all into effect - When He prepared the heaven, I was present with Him. Thus does He make Him equal to Him: for by proceeding from Himself He became His first-begotten Son, because begotten before all things"

[@LDSChristian]

@@gbengoosewuru4139 That's a great find, but it isn't the exact quote I was referring to showing the Son has his own mind and will. It comes just before your quote and in the same context. The end of Chapter 6. "Now, as soon as it pleased God to put forth into their respective substances and forms the things which He had planned and ordered within Himself, in conjunction with His Wisdom's Reason and Word, He first put forth the Word Himself, having within Him His own inseparable Reason and Wisdom, in order that all things might be made through Him through whom they had been planned and disposed" In other words, "He first put forth the Word" with his "own form and glorious garb", "having withing Him His OWN inseparable Reason and Wisdom." i.e. His own mind and will.