Again I ask .... was Tertullian’s Lord Jesus Christ closer to yours or mine?
Undoubtedly mine. What was Tertullians Heresy has become your focus of worship!
As proof, I give you Tertullians own words....
Tertullian – Against Praxeas
Chapter II. “…were it only that it may not seem that each perversion of the truth is condemned without examination and simply prejudiced; especially in the case of this (Praxeus) heresy, which supposes itself to posses the pure truth, in thinking that one cannot believe in One Only God in any other way than by saying that the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost are the very selfsame Person.”
Chapter IV: “…we have been already able to show that the Father and the Son are two separate Persons, not only by the mention of their separate names as Father and the Son, but also by the fact that He who delivered up the kingdom, and He to whom it is delivered up-and in like manner, He who subjected (all things), and He to whom they were subjected-must necessarily be two different beings.
Chapter VII: “Whatever, therefore, was the substance of the Word that I designate a Person, I claim for it the name of the Son; and while I recognize the Son, I assert His distinction as second to the Father.”
“… I confess that I call God and His Word- the Father and His Son-Two.”
Chapter IX: “Now, observe, my assertion is that the Father is one, and the Son is one, and the Spirit one, and that They are distinct from Each Other.”
Chapter X: “In like manner, in order to be a father, I have a son, for I never can be a son to myself; and in order to be a son, I have a father, it being impossible for me ever to be my own father.”
Chapter XI: “If you want me to believe Him to be both the Father and the Son, show me some other passage where it is declared ‘The Lord said unto Himself, I am my own Son, to-day have I begotten myself’ or again ‘Before the morning did I beget myself’.”
Chapter XII: “..according to John ‘The Word was God,’ then you have two Beings – One that commands that the thing be made, and the Other that executes the order and creates.”
In all my years of lurking these threads grey, this is the first bold admission I ever read by a mormon of having a different Jesus. Maybe I just missed it before.