Marrcion’s Error

Marrcion’s Belief System is nothing more than a belief system, developed and based upon hatred for God's People, that ultimately led to replacement theology.

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“Marcionism” was an Early Christian belief system that originated in the teachings of Marcion of Sinope, in Rome, around the year 144.

Marcion was the son of a bishop of Sinope in Pontus. About the middle of the second century (140–155) he traveled to Rome, where he joined the Syrian Gnostic Cerdo.

Marcion believed that Yeshua was the savior sent by God, and Paul was his chief apostle, but he rejected the Hebrew Bible and the God of Israel. Marcionists believed that the wrathful Hebrew God was a separate and lower entity than the all-forgiving God of the New Testament.

Marcionism, depicted the God of the Old Testament as a tyrant or demiurge .

Marcion's canon, possibly the first Christian canon ever compiled, consisted of eleven books: a gospel, which was a form of the Gospel of Luke, and ten Paulian epistles. Marcion's canon rejected the entire Old Testament, along with all other epistles and gospels of what would become the 27-book New Testament canon, which during his life had yet to be compiled. Paul's epistles enjoy a prominent position in the Marcionite canon, since Paul was considered by Marcion to be Messiah’s only true apostle.

Marcionism was denounced by its opponents as heresy and written against – notably by Tertullian in a five-book treatise, Adversus Marcionem (Against Marcion), in about 208. Marcion's writings are lost, though they were widely read and numerous manuscripts must have existed. Even so, many scholars claim it is possible to reconstruct and deduce a large part of ancient Marcionism through what later critics, especially Tertullian, said concerning Marcion. The premise of Marcionism is that, “Many of the teachings of Messiah Yeshua are incompatible with the actions of the God of the Old Testament.” Focusing on the letters of Paul, Marcion felt that all other conceptions of the Gospel, and especially any association with the Old Testament religion, was opposed to, and was a backsliding from, his Truth.

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