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	Marcion2
		Marcion was excommunicated by the Roman clergy in 144.
		In the vicinity of 150 Marcion was a terror to the catholic surroundings; one agreed with Polycarp to consider him the "eldest son of Satan".
		Marcion arrived in the imperial city around 138; it was only in 144 that he was forbidden from the assembly of the faithful.
	www.gnosticliberationfront.com /marcion_of_sinope2.htm (9806 words)

	Marcion of Sinope - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Some ideas of Marcion's reappeared with Manichaean developments among the Bulgarian Bogomils of the 10th century and their Cathar heirs of southern France in the 13th century.
		Marcion's attempt to recover the authentic Jesus has been a constant theme of Christian reformers, reappearing in different guises, for example in the Jefferson Bible, Albert Schweitzer, and the Jesus Seminar.
		Marcion was the wealthy son of the bishop of Sinope (modern Sinop, Turkey), in Pontus.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Marcion_of_Sinope (825 words)

	Marcion of Sinope - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Marcion was a native of Sinope (modern Sinop, Turkey), in Pontus, Asia Minor.
		Marcion's teaching, known as Marcionism, was that Jesus revealed to the world a hitherto unknown god, who was different from the god of the Hebrew Bible.
		Marcion's proposed canon was a factor that led the orthodox Christian movement to formulate a canon of authoritative Scripture of its own, and which led to the current canon of the New Testament.
	encyclopedia.onlinereference.info /index.php/Marcion_of_Sinope (671 words)

	Marcion of Sinope - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Marcion of Sinope, who lived from the late first century to the mid second century A.D., was an early Christian teacher whose opinions were condemned by the orthodox Church as heresy.
		Marcion's teaching, known as Marcionism, was that Jesus Christ revealed to the world an entirely new god, who was different from the god of the Hebrew Bible.
		Marcion's position is not identical to, but is closely related to, the beliefs called Gnosticism.
	www.encyclopedia-online.info /Marcion (470 words)

	MARCION - Online Information article about MARCION
		The distinctive teaching of Marcion originated in a comparison of the Old Testament with the gospel of Christ and the theology of the apostle Paul.
		Marcion alone perceived their decisive religious importance, and with them confronted the legalizing, and in this sense judaizing, tendencies of his Christian contemporaries.
		For, since; according to Marcion, the spirit of man is derived, not from the good, but from the just God, it is impossible to see why the spiritual should yet be more closely related to the good God than the material.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /MAL_MAR/MARCION.html (3135 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Marcionites
		Marcion was son of the Bishop of Sinope in Pontus, born c.
		Marcion was a bishop, and that according to Tertullian (De Praeser.
		Marcion's name appears prominently in the discussion of two important questions, that of the Apostle's Creed, and that of the Canon of the New Testament.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/09645c.htm (2546 words)

	Marcion of Sinope: Encyclopedia topic (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Marcion's phantasmal Christ was "revealed as a man, though not a man", Hippolytus reported, and did not really die on the cross.
		Marcion taught "that salvation is of souls only, those souls which have learned his doctrine: the body, derived from the earth, cannot possibly partake of salvation (Irenaeus, I.xxv.1), a view also attacked by Tertullian in De Carne Christi.
		Marcion apparently produced an early version of the Harrowing of Hell (Harrowing of Hell: the harrowing of hell is the traditional english name in christian theology for an event...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/marcion_of_sinope (1235 words)

	Marcionism (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Marcionism is the dualist belief system that originates in the teachings of Marcion of Sinope at Rome around the year 144 CE (115 years and 6 months from the Crucifixion, according to Tertullian's reckoning in Adversus Marcionem, xv).
		Marcion was a rich Christian from Pontus, the son of a bishop; he arrived in Rome circa 140, soon after Bar Kokhba's revolt.
		Marcionism shows the influence of Hellenistic philosophy on Christianity, and presents a moral critique of the Old Testament from the standpoint of Platonism.
	pda.molinu.com /wiki/en/ma/Marcionism.htm (1251 words)

	Marcion: Portrait of a Heretic
		Marcion was born in c.85(4) at Sinope (modern Sinop on the Black Sea) in Pontus(5) the son of a bishop
		Marcion’s Christ was docetic(34) (he only appeared to be a man, because Marcion considered matter to be evil - the creation of the Demiurge), it is also difficult to see a distinction between his representation of the Father and the Son, leading to the conclusion that he was also a modalist.
		Walker, 61: "Marcion speaks in brutal terms of the ignominy of man created in loathsome matter, conceived in the filth of sexuality, born among the unclean, excruciating and grotesque convulsions of labour, into a body that is a ‘sack of excrement’, until death turns it into carrion, a nameless corpse, a worm-filled cadaver."
	www.earlychurch.org.uk /article_marcion.html (2547 words)

	Marcion - MSN Encarta
		The Marcionite sect, highly ascetic and celibate, grew rapidly until it was second in strength only to the original church; it had churches and an episcopal hierarchy and practiced the sacraments of baptism and the Eucharist, the latter without the use of wine.
		Marcion rejected the Old Testament and almost all of the New Testament, including the accounts of the incarnation and the resurrection, basing his teachings on ten of the Epistles of St. Paul and on an altered version of the Gospel of Luke.
		Marcionism flourished in the West until about the 4th century, when it was probably absorbed by Manichaeism; traces of it remained in the East into medieval times.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761560338/Marcion.html (321 words)

	Marcionism - OrthodoxWiki
		Marcionism is the dualist belief system that originated in Rome from the teachings of Marcion of Sinope around the year 144.
		As Marcionism arose in the very beginning of the Christian era and from the very start had adopted a strong ecclesiastical organization that paralleled that of the Orthodox Christian Church, the movement was a dangerous foe of Christianity.
		Marcion’s vision seemed centered around the texts that were being used by Christians for a new testament, an approach that led the Orthodox on a path of defining the New Testament.
	orthodoxwiki.org /Marcionism (595 words)

	Marcion of Sinope - Deistpedia, the Deist encyclopedia
		Marcion's attempt to recover the authentic Jesus has been a constant theme of Christian reformers, reappearing in different guises, for example in the Jefferson Bible, Albert Schweitzer, and the Jesus Seminar.
		What made Marcion distinct from the many who sought to recover the authentic Jesus, was that he believed that the universe was created by an evil god, a Demiurge.
		Marcion was the wealthy son of the bishop of Sinope (modern Sinop, Turkey), in Pontus.
	www.templeofreason.org /test7/Marcion.htm (908 words)

	Marcionism - One Language (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Marcionism is a sect founded in A.D. at Rome by Marcion of Sinope.
		Indeed, the word Marcionism is sometimes used in modern times to refer to anti-Jewish tendencies in Christian churches, especially when such tendencies are thought to be surviving residues of ancient Marcionism.
		Marcionism is undergoing a revival, as part of the larger Gnostic revival inspired by the discovery of the texts at Nag Hammadi and popular works by authors such as Elaine Pagels and Dan Brown.
	www.onelang.com /encyclopedia/index.php/Marcionism (376 words)

	Marcion - OrthodoxWiki
		Marcion was a native of Sinope (modern Sinop, Turkey), in Pontus, Asia Minor.
		Marcion's teaching, known as Marcionism, was that Jesus revealed to the world a hitherto unknown god, who was different from the god of the Hebrew Bible.
		Marcion's proposed canon was a factor that led the orthodox Christian movement to formulate a canon of authoritative Scripture of its own, and which led to the current canon of the New Testament.
	www.orthodoxwiki.org /Marcion (674 words)

	Marcion, the Canon, the Law, and the Historical Jesus
		Marcion came under the influence of the gnostic teacher Cedro "who believed that the God of the Old Testament was different from the God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ.
		Marcion was expelled from the Roman Church in 144 CE.
		Marcion's reliance (and that of other gnostics) on "secret knowledge" was met with a forceful commitment to the "Apostolic Tradition." Marcion was not the only such figure arguing for "secret knowledge." Others such as Valentenius also stressed that they possessed knowledge that had secretly been passed down to them from the Apostles or Jesus.
	www.christianorigins.com /marcion.html (2779 words)

	Marcion
		Marcion enters the scene while a battle was waging for the soul of Christianity.
		In their effort to rebut Marcion's recognition of an independent kingdom of evil, the Gnostics preferred to describe the evil world as an accident or as a disturbance caused by a lack of knowledge.
		Marcion preached the Gospel to all, while the Gnostics gloried in their elite status by carefully guarding the deepest of their inspired secrets.
	www.sullivan-county.com /id2/marcion.htm (3472 words)

	Marcion and Marcionite Gnosticism
		Marcion's arrangement of the letters in The Apostle were as follows: Galatians, 1 and 2 Corinthians combined, Romans, 1 and 2 Thessalonians combined, Laodiceans (Ephesians), Colossians, Philippians, and Philemon.
		Marcion was very influential in the formation of the New Testament Canon even though his influence was a negative one.
		The study of Marcion's Canon may not produce clear, unrefutable evidence of the existence of an orthodox closed canon in the middle of the second century, but Marcion's divergence from the norm presupposes a norm.
	ontruth.com /marcion.html (1799 words)

	Sinope - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sinope was an ancient city on the Black Sea, in the region of Galatia, now called Sinop
		Sinope in Greek mythology, daughter of Asopus and eponym of Sinop
		Sinope is a moon of the planet Jupiter
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sinope (128 words)

	Marcion
		Marcion taught that the god of the Old Testament was not the true God but rather that the true and higher God had been revealed only with Jesus Christ.
		Marcion was excommunicated from the Roman church c.
		Marcion's canon consisted of the Euangelion, or the Gospel of the Lord, and the Apostolikon, ten epistles of Paul, not including the pastorals.
	www.earlychristianwritings.com /marcion.html (255 words)

	Christian CADRE—Marcion, the Canon, the Law, and the Historical Jesus
		That Marcion, for example, did not have the account of John the Baptist's announcement of Jesus as Messiah or the story of Jesus' temptation is almost certainly to be accounted for by Marcion's omission of these passages.
		Marcion laid down the position that Christ, who in the days of Tiberius was, by a previously unknown god, revealed for the salvation of all nations, is a different being from him who was ordained God, the Creator for the restoration of a Jewish state, and who is yet to come.
		Marcion's reliance on "secret knowledge" was met with a forceful commitment to the "Apostolic Tradition." Marcion was not the only such figure arguing for "secret knowledge." Others such as Valentenius also stressed that they possessed knowledge that had secretly been passed down to them from the Apostles or Jesus.
	www.christiancadre.org /member_contrib/cp_marcion.html (2794 words)

	Marcionism - (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Marcion took advantage of this conflict to preach his belief that a Demiurge, an evil god, had created the universe.
		An ordained bishop of Sinope, Asia Minor, Marcion declared that Christianity was distinct from and in opposition to Judaism.
		Marcion, on the contrary, treats the Catholic Church as one that “follows the Testament of the Creator-God,” and directs the full force of his attack against this Testament and against the falsification of the Gospel and of the Pauline Epistles by the original Apostles and the writers of the Gospels.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/wiki/Marcionism (1632 words)

	Gnosticism [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		Marcion of Sinope, in Pontus, was a contemporary of Basilides.
		Marcion believed that this cosmos in which we live bears witness to the existence of an inflexible, legalistic, and sometimes spiteful and vengeful God.
		Quite the contrary, Marcion believed that he knew the God of this realm all too well, and that He was not worthy of the devotion and obedience that He demanded.
	www.iep.utm.edu /g/gnostic.htm (8278 words)

	The Development of the Canon of the New Testament - Marcion
		Marcion, the son of the bishop of Sinope (a sea-port of Pontus along the Black Sea) who had become a wealthy ship-owner, stood before the presbyters to expound his teachings in order to win others to his point of view.
		Marcion's canon accelerated the process of fixing the Church's canon, which had already begun in the first half of the 2nd century.
		Marcion was convinced that among the early apostolic leaders only Paul understood the significance of Jesus Christ as the messenger of the Supreme God.
	www.ntcanon.org /Marcion.shtml (1239 words)

	Marcion
		Marcion of Sinope wrote the first Bible in 140 AD.
		The Saviour was called Isu Chrestos and Marcion's Bible starts in chapter 3 of Luke for one verse and then continues with chapter 4.
		Marcion has been maligned as a heretic by the early Church Fathers, but by far the majority of scholars believe that Marcion only wrote the texts that he knew.
	www.chrestos.com /marcion.html (231 words)

	Sinope
		Sinope sits on the south shore of the Black Sea, almost exactly in the center of it and at the northernmost point of the south shoreline.
		If Marcion's roots don't go back to the steppe people, he certainly dealt extensively with them because if Sinope could be considered as part of "Western Civilization" it certainly was on the extreme eastern margin of it.
		If Marcion's ancestors were imports, their history goes back to 630 B.C., a date the ancient inhabitants assign to the founding of the city, supposedly founded by Autolycus, a companion of Hercules.
	www.webcom.com /~gnosis/library/marcion/Sinope.htm (1287 words)

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