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Marcion and Marcionism
Life of Marcion
The extraordinary gift of £1400 a huge sum of those days. The money was returned to him after his breach with the outcome of pure charity
Having fallen out with his father he travels to Rome where being a seafarer or shipowner and a great traveller, he may already have been known and where his wealth obtains him influence and position
may mark M greatest success in Rome, it is certain that he arrived there earlier after the death of Hyginus who died that year and app before the accession of P. E says that M sought admittance into the Roman Church but was refused.
His final breach with the Roman Church occurred in the autumn of 144 for the M counted 115 years and 61 months from the time of Christ to the beginning of their sect.
The story of Marcion's sin is rejected by many modern scholars as a piece of malicious gossip of which they say Epiphanius was found; others see in the young maiden a metaphor for the Church the then young bride of Christ whom Marcion violated by his heresy.
Epiphanius relates that M in his youth professed to lead a life of chastity and ascetism but in spite of his professions fell into sin with a young maiden
Doctrine and Discipline
Once the OT has been completely got rid of M has no further desire to change. He makes his purely NT Church as like the Catholic Church as possible.
All men are indeed created by the Demiurge but by special choice he elected the Jewish people as his own and thus became the god of the Jews
He resolutely cut out all texts that were contrary to his dogma in fact he created his own NT admitting but one Gospel a mutilation of St Luke and an Aposolicon containing ten epistles of St Paul
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but the OT was a scandal to the faithful and a stumbling-block to the refined and intellectual Gentiles by its crudity and cruelty and the OT had to be set aside
To M matter and flesh are not indeed essentially evil, but are contemptible things, a mere production of the Demiurge and it was inconceivable that God should really have made them His own.
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he denied the second coming of Christ to judge the living and the dead for the good god being all goodness does not punish those who reject Him. He simply leaves them to the Demiurge who will cast them into everlasting fire.
With regard to discipline, the main point of difference consists in his reaction to marriage
M. must have been excessive fasters to provoke the ridicule of T. in his M days. They fasted on Saturday out of a spirit of opposition to the Jewish God. This however may have been merely a western culture adopted by them.
History
It was the fate of M to drift away almost immediately from its founder's ideas towards mere G. M. creator or Jewish god was too inconsistent and illogical a conception, he was inferior to the good God.
M. followers sought to be more logical, they postulated three principles: good, just and wicked, opposing the first two to the last; or one principle only, the just god being a mer creation of the good God
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