Name: Christian from Carthage
Duration: P00H03M20S
Description: Wrote this song to shed light on the African presence in Christianity in the early 2nd century by writing a song about Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus. African Theologian who was known as Tertullian.

Christian from Carthage

from Being Black & Christian In America by Tra'mayne Williams

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Wrote this song to shed light on the African presence in Christianity in the early 2nd century by writing a song about Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus. African Theologian who was known as Tertullian.

lyrics

Verse 1
Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus/
Church father from Africa bruh, not Asia Minor/
Born in Carthage, modern day Tunisia/
Wrote treatises on how to tame the beast in ya/
Or better yet, the sin that you be dealing with/
Or control the tongue that you be spitting with/
He was of berber origin/
Got a library of authorship written in Latin literature yeah he was going in/
Christian apologist/
Went hard for the kingdom dog, he had to tell em’ what the gospel is/
Christ crucified, died for you and I/
And rose from the dead, ya’ll thought it was suicide/
The difference between you living a lie/
Or you living on the truth cuz the Holy Spirit inside/
Like He lived inside of Tertullian/
Accept Christ and Lord and Savior bro, and you can win.

Chorus 2X
Before the Jim Crow precautions,
And before slave auctions,
The Gospel and Black History was the topic,
Today we talkin’ bout a christian from Carthage.

Verse 2
Tertullian was born in A.D. 155,
1400+ years before the slavetrade/
Skin color looked something like chocolate,
Definitely the total opposite of lemonade/
He wrote a book named Apologeticus,
Written to the Roman officers and the magistrates/
The reason was to defend Christianity,
And expose the truth about Roman hate/
And the persecution they dealt with/
By being burned alive and getting their flesh slit/
All for being selfless/
And relying on Jesus Christ to save us from our deathwish (UUHH)/
Labeled the father of Latin Christianity,
First to use the word trinity or phrase Trinitas/
Founder of western theology,
But without Christ Jesus boy, ya soul is lost!/

Chorus 2X
Before the Jim Crow precautions,
And before slave auctions,
The gospel and black history was the topic,
Today we talkin’ bout’ a christian from carthage.

(Tra’mayne Williams On Da Track Mane)!!

We Out!!

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from Being Black & Christian In America, track released January 1, 2021
Prod. by Tra'mayne Williams
mixed by Tra'mayne Williams
Masters owned by Tra'mayne Publishing

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Tra'mayne Williams Houston, Texas

I go by Tra'mayne Williams. I am a father of two children, and a husband of one wife. I love music and I pray that my music glorifies Christ and blesses you in a big way.