Date: August 16th, 2026 2:54 PM Author: yellow jap field
Tertullian's later view of marriage, such as in his book Exhortation to Chastity, may have been heavily influenced by Montanism. He had previously held marriage to be fundamentally good, but after his alleged conversion to Montanism he denied its goodness. He argues that marriage is considered to be good "when it is compared with the greatest of all evils". He argued that before the coming of Christ, the command to reproduce was a prophetic sign pointing to the coming of the Church; after it came, the command was superseded. He also believed lust for one's wife and for another woman were essentially the same, so that marital desire was similar to adulterous desire. He believed that sex even in marriage would disrupt the Christian life and that abstinence was the best way to achieve the clarity of the soul. Tertullian's views would later influence much of the western church.
Date: August 16th, 2026 2:38 PM Author: yellow jap field
weird how i grew up evangelical and never heard about any of this anti-jew theology. it was just (1) the jews are god's chosen people and (2) any country that turns its back on israel will lose god's favor.
did jews invent evangelism? would be pretty fucking clever if they did.
Date: August 16th, 2026 3:39 PM Author: Aquamarine racy cuck
"Marcion argued that the Genesis account of Yahweh walking through the Garden of Eden asking where Adam was, proved that Yahweh inhabited a physical body and was without universal knowledge, attributes wholly incompatible with the Heavenly Father professed by Jesus."