Marcion taught that the entire Old Testament should be rejected because it belonged to an evil, inferior God, and not to the God revealed by Jesus of Nazareth.
Marcion was very anti-Jewish; therefore he also rejected any New Testament writings which appeared to speak favorably of “Jewish practices”. By Jewish practices I mean keeping the laws and commandments of the Old Testament. One writer says..
Marcion’s most influential writing was a work entitled Antithesis, described as
Is Marcion the infiltrator with Spirit of Lawlessness??
Marcion was very anti-Jewish; therefore he also rejected any New Testament writings which appeared to speak favorably of “Jewish practices”. By Jewish practices I mean keeping the laws and commandments of the Old Testament. One writer says..
“Marcion started the trend which has had many followers right up to the present — if it doesn’t suit the theory, excise it as spurious or an interpolation.” Smith, M. A. From Christ to Constantine (London: Intervarsity Press, 1971), p.53.
Marcion’s most influential writing was a work entitled Antithesis, described as
There are no known copies of Antithesis in existence. What we know about Marcion’s teachings comes mainly from the writings of those who opposed his heresy. One who wrote the most about Marcion was Tertullian. Tertullian was a church leader who wrote a lengthy work called Against Marcion. Tertullian describes Antithesis as“a highly competent work” which consisted of “contrasted statements arranged to prove the incompatibility of the law and the gospel.” Tertullian, Against Marcion, trans. and ed. Ernest Evans (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972), p. 15
“a work strained into making such a division between the Law and the Gospel as thereby to make two separate gods, opposite to each other, one belonging to one instrument (or, as it is more usual to say, testament), one to the other, and thus lend its patronage to faith in another gospel, that according to Antithesis.”
Is Marcion the infiltrator with Spirit of Lawlessness??