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Marcionite

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Mar·cion·ism  (märsh-nzm)
n.
A Christian heresy of the second and third centuries a.d. that rejected the Old Testament and denied the incarnation of God in Jesus as a human.

[After Marcion (died c. a.d. 160), Pontic merchant and heretic in Rome.]

Marcion·ite (-sh-nt) n.


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1) Since the triumph of the "orthodox" Christian argument in the first few centuries CE for retaining the Bible as sacred Scripture over Marcionite and gnostic rejection, the dominant Christian position has been that the Bible is a Christian holy book alongside the writings eventually gathered in the New Testament.
At times he asserts that to distance God from violence is to distance oneself from the Christian tradition; that the effort to create such a distance can only be Marcionite or neo-Gnostic.
Marcion's form of Christianity was very popular in the second century, with some scholars suggesting that for a short while there may have been almost as many Marcionite as non-Marcionite Christians.
 
 
 
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