Marcionism - Teachings

Marcionism is the dualist belief system that originates in the teachings of Marcion of Sinope at Rome around the year 144 CE (115 years and 6 months from the Crucifixion, according to Tertullian's reckoning in Adversus Marcionem, xv). Marcionism reflects a different understanding of the roots of Christian belief than that commonly held today. To the early church, the source of the most persistent persecution of Christians was from Judaism,[1] and they understood that the Old Testament's theology of wrath was different from th ...

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An ordained bishop of Sinope, Asia Minor, he declared that Christianity was distinct from and in opposition to Judaism. This was nothing new to the church of his contemporaries. Indeed, a great number of early church fathers attacked Judaism; for example, St John Chrysostom believed that the Jews "worship the devil." Marcion went much further. First, he rejected the whole Bible but the Gospel of Luke. Second, he adopted belief in two gods. One was good, the other was the Jewish god who wa ...

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According to a remark by Origen (Commentary on the Gospel of Matthew 15.3), Marcion "prohibited allegorical interpretations of the scripture". Tertullian disputed this in his treatise against Marcion, as did Henry Wace: "The story proceeds to say that he asked the Roman presbyters to explain the texts, "A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit," and "No man putteth a piece of new cloth unto an old garment," texts from which he himself deduced that works in which evil is to be found could not proceed from the good God, an ...

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The ecclesiastical organization known as Marcionism began with the excommunication of Marcion from the Church of Rome around 144. Marcion was a rich Christian from Pontus, the son of a bishop; he arrived in Rome circa 140, soon after Bar Kokhba's revolt. That revolution, along with other Jewish-Roman wars (the Great Jewish Revolt and the Kitos War), provides some of the historical context of the founding of Marcionism. Marcion used his personal wealth, returned to him after he'd donated it to the Church of Rome, to fund an ecclesiasti ...

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