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Marcion

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[mahr-shuhn, -shee-uhn, -see-uhn] / ˈmɑr ʃən, -ʃi ən, -si ən /

noun

  1. a.d. c100–c160, Christian Gnostic.


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They expelled Marcion from the church, handing him back his charity.

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Jesus, Marcion believed, appeared fully grown in Capernaum to the fishermen who would become the first Disciples.

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Not so, said Marcion, who deleted even Luke's accounts of the child Jesus.

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.

From Time Magazine Archive

The dilemma is the very same in the case of Marcion.

From Supernatural Religion, Vol. II. (of III) An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation by Walter Richard Cassels

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