Modern Marcionites

And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.  Romans 8:28  NASB Good – Marcion of Sinope was born in 85 C.E. in Turkey.  Before he died in 160 in Rome, he changed the entire Christian world forever after.  How did…

What You Can’t Have

Little children, let no one deceive you; the one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous, the one who practices sin is of the devil; for the devil has sinned from the beginning.  1 John 3:7-8a  NASB Practices – Rudolph Bultmann was one of the most important Christian theologians of the last…

A Good Beginning

Do not in any way forsake the commandments of the Lord; but keep what you have received, neither adding thereto nor taking away therefrom.  Didache, Chapter 5, Roberts-Donaldson translation Adding/ taking away – The Didache (Teaching of the Twelve Apostles) is one of the earliest Christian documents, dating from the late 1st or early 2nd…

El Corazón del Tema

No penséis que he venido para abolir la ley o los profetas; no he venido para abolir, sino para cumplir. Mateo 5:17 Para Cumplir – En 144 DC la Iglesia tacho de hereje a Marcion y rechazó su Biblia truncada. Marcion enseñaba a los cristianos que ya no existía requerimiento adicional de las Escrituras hebreas…

The Heart Of The Matter

“Do not think that I came to annul the Law or the Prophets; I did not come to annul, but to fulfill.” Matthew 5:17 To Fulfill – In 144 AD the Church branded Marcion a heretic and rejected his truncated Bible. Marcion taught that Christians had no further use of the Hebrew Scriptures except as…