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Description: A Catholic Encyclopedia article on the history of this group, the doctrines, the mutilation of the New Testament and a list of some Anti-Marcionite writers.
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Marcionites by Marcion and continuing in the West for 300 years, but in the East some centuries longer, especially outside the . They rejected the writings of the , but the Son of the good God, who was different from the God of the Ancient Covenant. They anticipated the more consistent
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Page title:CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Marcionites
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Description:Said that the creator 'god' of the Old Testament was not the good God and Father of Jesus Christ of the New Testament. Had their own shadow hierarchy and their own Bible, which consisted of parts of Luke and Paul, edited so as to disparage the Old Testament. Only the unmarried were allowed to be baptized. Marcionism may have led to the formation of the Apostle's Creed as rebuttal, and certainly was an incentive in deciding on the canon of the New Testament
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