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    Marcion of Sinope (/ˈmɑːrkiən, -siən/; Ancient Greek: Μαρκίων Σινώπης; c. 85 – c. 160) was a theologian in early Christianity. Marcion preached that God...
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    Marcion of Sinope to the exclusion of the other gospels. The majority of scholars agree that this gospel was a later revised version of the Gospel of...
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  • Marcionism was an early Christian dualistic belief system that originated with the teachings of Marcion of Sinope in Rome around 144 AD. Marcion was an...
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  • Testament canon in response to the challenge posed by Marcion. Marcion rejected the theology of the Old Testament entirely and regarded the God depicted...
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    16:15) as bishop of Sinope, a city in the region of the Black Sea. He was the father of Marcion of Sinope, heretic and founder of Marcionism. Troparion (Tone...
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  • having "Jewish minds". In the early second century AD, the heretic Marcion of Sinope (c. 85 – c. 160 AD) declared that the Jewish God was a different God...
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    contemporary proponent of this hypothesis is Matthias Klinghardt. Marcion of Sinope (c. 85 – c. 160) is considered to be the founder of an early Christian...
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    Bey of the Candar beylik Marcion of Sinope (c. 85–160), founder of Marcionism Mithridates VI of Pontus (134–63 BC), king of Pontus Phocas, Bishop of Sinope...
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    Muratorian fragment (category Development of the Christian biblical canon)
    Another reason suggesting a date toward the end of the second century is the concern with denouncing Marcion, a Christian bishop whose influence was the strongest...
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    (2nd century CE), which denounces it as a spurious work forged by Marcion of Sinope. Its text has been lost and nothing is known about its content. Non-Pauline...
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