Five Major Heresies in the Church: Marcionism
by David Chadwick
We are wrapping up our week with one more heresy: Marcionism.
This heretical thinking became popular in the 2nd century. Marcion, an early Christian theologian, presumed that there is a difference between the God of anger and judgment in the Old Testament and the God of mercy and love revealed through Jesus in the New Testament.
Marcion drew up a canon of 11 books in the New Testament that included the four gospels and a few of Paul's writings. He left out the entire Old Testament.
Eventually, this was labeled a heresy, a wrong teaching. Take note of any leader or pastor…
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