Here, Danny. Now can denounce this guy as a "radical" too.... which, btw, is character assassination and not refutation.
http://www.bibleinterp.com/opeds/actapo358006.shtml
Marcion was active c 140 in Asia Minor. He was the first to produce a "canon" of xtian texts comprising what later morphed into the gospel of "Luke" and 10 so-called epistles of this paul guy according to later xtian writers. Thus a date before 140 would be impossible and it would have to take a little time at least to come up with serviceable redactions of any of Marcion's papers to fit with the theology that the proto-orthodox were working up. We know that as late as c. 160 AD, Justin Martyr had still not heard of any "paul" although he did know of Marcion. My guess is that the entire story was concocted and passed off sometime between 165-180 AD.
http://www.bibleinterp.com/opeds/actapo358006.shtml
Quote:When and Why Was the Acts of the Apostles Written?
Quote:Marcion was one of the best known Christian leaders in the early church, and, in my judgment, Acts was written as, at least in part, a response to the challenge he presented.[5] It an-swers the Marcionite contentions point by point. Marcion stressed the distance between Jesus and the Hebrew Scriptures, but the author of Acts repeatedly showed that Paul and all the other Christian preachers maintained that Jesus fulfilled the predictions of the Hebrew prophets. Mar-cion claimed that Paul was the only apostle, but Acts portrays him as at one with Peter and the others, even subservient to them on some occasions, and it even defines apostleship in a way that excludes Paul. Marcion called Peter and the others "false apostles," in contrast to Paul, but Acts not only characterizes them as in total agreement with Paul but even goes so far as to attribute to Peter the first conversion of a Gentile (Acts 10:1-11:18). Marcion maintained that Paul pro-claimed a God of grace, who released humankind from the domination of the God of Torah, but the author of Acts characterized Paul as a Torah-observant Jew and a devout Pharisee. Marcion taught that Jesus brought Torah to an end, but Acts showed that the apostles and Paul agreed that some things from Torah were still to be required even of Gentile believers (see Acts 15:20).
Conceiving Acts as an anti-Marcionite text enables us to appreciate the contribution of its author. This author is not merely telling the story of the rise of Christianity, nor is he simply at-tempting to address the problem of Jewish rejection of the Gospel.
Marcion was active c 140 in Asia Minor. He was the first to produce a "canon" of xtian texts comprising what later morphed into the gospel of "Luke" and 10 so-called epistles of this paul guy according to later xtian writers. Thus a date before 140 would be impossible and it would have to take a little time at least to come up with serviceable redactions of any of Marcion's papers to fit with the theology that the proto-orthodox were working up. We know that as late as c. 160 AD, Justin Martyr had still not heard of any "paul" although he did know of Marcion. My guess is that the entire story was concocted and passed off sometime between 165-180 AD.
