RE: Existence of Marcion questioned?
March 2, 2022 at 1:11 pm
(This post was last modified: March 2, 2022 at 1:13 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Well, he'd have needed demonic magic to have personally convinced the majority of the faithful in many nations. It's a remarkably implausible complaint - and not for the presence of demonic magic, amusingly.
The problem with most christians (as justin saw it) was wrongthink, and even if there were alot of different reasons (and different very real people) behind that wrongthink, it gets stuffed into a bag named marcion and that's that.
FWIW, I think that there probably was a marcion, even if the marcion of justins telling bears little to no resemblance to the man. That wouldn't exactly be surprising for a polemic.
The problem with most christians (as justin saw it) was wrongthink, and even if there were alot of different reasons (and different very real people) behind that wrongthink, it gets stuffed into a bag named marcion and that's that.
FWIW, I think that there probably was a marcion, even if the marcion of justins telling bears little to no resemblance to the man. That wouldn't exactly be surprising for a polemic.
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