Marcion of Pontus was a second century theologian who argued that the God portrayed in the Old Testament cannot be the same as the God proclaimed by Jesus. Marcion contrasted the cruelty, jealousy, and harsh justice of the God of the Old Testament with the God of pure mercy proclaimed by Jesus. Based on this understanding of Scripture, Marcion posited that the God of the Old Testament was the Creator God, but inferior and different from the God of mercy proclaimed by Jesus. . . To support this theology, Marcion created his own canon of Scripture, the first in Christian history. He rejected all the Old Testament, and accepted only Paul and Luke as genuine, but even these he modified by deleting certain passages.^[1]^ Although Marcion died around 160, the church he founded persisted in the West until the end of the third century, and in the East until the middle of the fifth century.
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