Marcion’s Gospel of Christ and the Apostle

A man named Marcion was the first person to publish a fixed collection of books, which is considered to be the first Christian New Testament. Over the next 229 years later – keeping in mind that the United States is only 237 years old – other men would create other New Testament, until one that has the same books as New Testament’s today was created by an Alexandrian Bishop named Athanasius.

Marcion created the first Christian canon, but he did not call it a New Testament or New Scriptures. He referred to it by the titles which he gave to its two component parts - The Gospel of Christ and the Apostle. Our primary source of information about this book is Tertullian's treatise Against Marcion. It was written over half a century after Marcion’s death and was an attack against Marcion’s followers.

Read the complete article at -- http://fromonejesus.blogspot.com/2013/08/marcions-gospel-of-christ-and-apostle.html

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