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Marcion splits the God of the conquest from the God of the cross; the church declares him a heretic and binds both testaments together on purpose.
In plain words
Marcion splits the God of the conquest from the God of the cross; the church rejects him and binds both testaments together on purpose: a fork, the tension judged less dangerous than the tidy answer. How the conquest command and the cross are held in one hand stays open.
The mechanism
THE FORK — they found the tension less dangerous than the resolution
How it was checked
- EvidenceT5 INDEPENDENT SECULAR; Status: OPEN
- Letter eraTHE LINE HELD THROUGH HELL Abraham to Solomon, c. 2000 to c. 930 BC
- SourcesSECULAR RECORD — patristic sources; the formation of the canon
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