"Certum est, quia impossibile."
— Tertullian
January 1, 1970
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Also paraphrased as "It is so extraordinary that it must be true." — The above two lines from De Carne Christi have often become conflated into the statement: "Credo quia impossibile" (I believe it because it is impossible), which can be perceived as a distortion of the actual arguments that Tertullian was making.
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Also paraphrased as "It is so extraordinary that it must be true." — The above two lines from De Carne Christi have often become conflated into the statement: "Credo quia impossibile" (I believe it because it is impossible), which can be perceived as a distortion of the actual arguments that Tertullian was making.