Marcionism and modern Protestantism

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Marcionism and modern Protestantism are highly interconnected. Contemporary Protestant "Christianity," despite its claims of sola scriptura, has been corrupted with the Gnostic dualism stemming from the teachings of Marcion of Sinope that were denounced by the Apostolic Fathers. The church father Irenaeus of Lyons, a disciple of Polycarp (in turn a disciple of the Apostle John), summarized Marcionism as follows:

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Marcion of Pontus... developed his teaching, shamelessly blaspheming the God whom the Law and the Prophets proclaimed, describing him as the author of evils, desirous of wars, changing his opinions, and [at different times] contrary to himself. But Jesus [was] from the Father who is above the God that formed the world, and came into Judea in the time of Pontius Pilate, who was procurator of Tiberius Caesar; manifest in human form to those who were in Judea, he abolished the Prophets and the Law, and all the works of that God who made the world, whom he calls the World Ruler. In addition to this he mutilated the Gospel According to Luke, removing everything about the birth of the Lord, and much of the teaching of the words of the Lord, in which the Lord is recorded as clearly confessing the creator of this universe as his Father. He persuaded his disciples that he was more veracious than the apostles who handed down the gospel, giving them not a gospel but a mere fragment of a gospel. He also similarly cut up the Epistles of Paul, removing whatever the apostle said clearly about the God who made the world, that he is the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, and whatever the apostle teaches by referring to the prophetic writings that predict the coming of the Lord.

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For as Marcionism declared the Torah to be abrogated, likewise do modern Protestants stringently insist on Christians not keeping the Torah, deeming it to be part of the "old Jewish law of Moses." Protestant dispensationalism, also known as Christian Zionism, is also rooted in the antisemitic dualism of Marcionite Gnosticism, positing that God holds separate covenants for Jews and Christians.^[1]

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