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 wrote the Antitheses to show the differences between the god of the Old Testament and the true God.
Marcion was excommunicated from the Roman church c. 144 CE, but he succeeded in establishing churches of his own to rival the catholic Church for the next two centuries.
Marcion is often thought to have first established an explicit canon. Marcion’s canon consisted of the Euangelion, or the Gospel of the Lord, and the Apostolikon, ten epistles of Paul, not including the pastorals. There is debate over whether Marcion truncated Luke and Paul or whether later orthodox scribes may have expanded them in some cases.
Marcion receives derogatory references from contemporary apologist Justin Martyr and heresiologist Irenaeus of Lyons. We can reconstruct Marcion’s writings through the references in Tertullian’s Adversus Marcionem and Epiphanius’ Panarion.
https://hebraicthought.org/podcast/supersessionism-controversy-tbm-article-ari-lamm/
http://www.ntcanon.org/Marcion.shtml
http://www.gnosis.org/library/marcion/Sinope.htm
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