Marcion
Americannoun
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Jesus, Marcion believed, appeared fully grown in Capernaum to the fishermen who would become the first Disciples.
From Time Magazine Archive
To buttress his beliefs, Marcion purged the miasma of texts Christians used as Scripture to form a "new" testament.
From Time Magazine Archive
A 2nd century heretic named Marcion was the first Christian to make a compilation of authentic gospels and epistles into a single testament that excluded the many apocryphal writings about Christ.
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Not so, said Marcion, who deleted even Luke's accounts of the child Jesus.
From Time Magazine Archive
Marcion ardently maintained the doctrine of the impurity of matter, and he carried it to its logical conclusion, both in speculation and practice.
From Supernatural Religion, Vol. II. (of III) An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation by Cassels, Walter Richard
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