Marcion and Getting Unhitched from the Old Testament

Marcion and Getting Unhitched from the Old Testament

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This sure does sound familiar. It seems a lot of people today refuse to believe the God of the Old Testament, but refusing to believe doesn’t it make it not so. What’s old may be new again, but it’s still wrong. 🙂

Great post by DeYoung. Go read the whole thing.

Marcion’s theological errors (and there were many) came from one main root: he refused to believe that the God of the Old Testament was the same as the Father of the Lord Jesus Christ. Marcion simply could not believe in a God full of wrath and justice. So he threw away the Old Testament and took for his Bible a truncated version of Luke’s Gospel and selectively edited versions of Paul’s epistles. When all the cutting and pasting was finished, Marcion had the Christianity he wanted: a God of goodness and nothing else; a message of inspiring moral uplift; a Bible that does away with the uncomfortable bits about God’s wrath and hell. Marcionism was antinomian, idealistic about human potential, and skittish about dogma and rules.

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