Marcion of Pontus “was one of the most dangerous men in Christian history,” according to my friend Mike Aquilina. He wanted an Old Testament-less Christianity.
Mike writes:
He arrived in Rome around the middle of the second century, the son of a bishop from Pontus on the southern coast of the Black Sea. He was wealthy, brilliant, disciplined, and utterly convinced that the Church had misunderstood the Gospel. Christianity, he believed, could not be reconciled with the religion of ancient Israel. The God of the Old Testament was a deity of law, wrath, judgment, and tribal violence. The Father proclaimed by Jesus Christ was
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