(March 2, 2022 at 2:57 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: or another way of describing his concern. Marcion is only a man in that marcionites - read: all heretical christians, need a leader - if only so you can argue with a single (literary) man. Hence..... Marcion.
There are some great reasons to doubt he existed, which you can find in that blog post. Hey may actually have, though, and the good reasons to doubt it all round down to how christian operators mangled his story. Same with "jesus". Justin wrote against marcionites and marcionite christianity - not marcion the man.
Huh. I could have sworn he mentioned the man. Looks like I’m gonna have to peruse through First Apology again. I very well could be misremembering that detail.
