Marcion was one of the most significant "heretics" of the second century C.E. as evidenced both by the number of church fathers that wrote against him and the amount that they wrote against him.

Marcion believed Christianity had been corrupted by Jewish tradition and sought to restore what he saw as the true message of Jesus. He taught that the God of the Old Testament was a lesser, wrathful ...

Marcion of Sinope was an early Christian theologian who lived c. 85-160 CE. His doctrine was, perhaps unfortunately, declared heretical by Justin Martyr and Tertullian. Marcion taught that the God of ...

The cranky, severe, Old Testament God isn’t an opening act. An image is burned into my memory: an incandescent lamp on my mother's night stand illuminating the open pages of her well-worn Bible.

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