Marcion
Americannoun
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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.
From Time Magazine Archive
They expelled Marcion from the church, handing him back his charity.
From Time Magazine Archive
Jesus, Marcion believed, appeared fully grown in Capernaum to the fishermen who would become the first Disciples.
From Time Magazine Archive
From Marcion we now turn to Tatian, another so-called heretic leader.
From Supernatural Religion, Vol. II. (of III) An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation by Cassels, Walter Richard
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