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

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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

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

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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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