Marcion

  • 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…