Marcion of Sinope

Marcion of Sinope was a 2nd-century Christian theologian who believed that the God depicted in the Hebrew Bible was different from the compassionate God revealed in Jesus Christ. He argued that the Old Testament God was stern and just, while the New Testament God of love and mercy was a separate, higher entity. Marcion proposed a version of Christianity that rejected the Old Testament entirely, focusing only on the teachings of Jesus and Paul. His ideas sparked early debates about which scriptures should be considered authoritative and helped shape the development of Christian theology and the canon of the New Testament.