Greetings:

Sorry about no post, but am still learning.

What should have appeared but didn't:

With regard to things seeming upside down now in our present existance under the Progressive Journey into obsolescence, it could be considered as relevant what has transpired in the past to make this so.

In the early beginnings of Christianity, Marcion advocated the original hypothesis that Christianity was supposed to evolve without Judaistic orthodoxy.

He opposed the dogmatic means by which Judaized orthodoxy sought to confirm its sacrodatal authority, & its attempt to assume to itself an exclusive authority, ostensibly delegated to the Apostles, which he regarded as designed to establish an unwarrented restriction upon Christian freedom of concience.

The church in Rome, which had been founded by disciples of Paul, had now become Petrine & thouroughly Judaistic. It had adopted the Hebrew scriptures as the essential basis of the Christian faith.

But Marcion, ardently desiring to establish the true postulates of the Christian faith, equally desired to preserve a free & united Catholic Church, & he made strenuous & continued efforts to free the church from its Judaistic liason.

Like Paul, he clearly saw the danger & strove with all his energy to arrest the Judaization of christianity, which by his time had been highly successful.

Marcion considered Paul to be the only true Apostle of christ, most of the others having lapsed into Judaism. He inveighed against the "false Apostles" as having betrayed their trust,---a charge for which at the time he may have found good reason.

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A linc inserted to connect the past with the present, as a result of the forgoing failure to remain independent from what Abram started many years ago, but still fermenting.

Cont.---For we are told by Reinach that "Down to the time of Marcion, all sciptual quotations in the works of the Apostolic Fathers referred exclusively to the Old Testament." Strangly enough, Paul was the only one we know of the Apostles who opposed & resisted the Judaisation of Christianity, though it seems quite probable that Barnabas also did.

And now we know a little more about why all seems upside down now,-as to our existing not as National independent individuals, that Christ died to ensure but as dependent inter-nation dependent souls gathered up for debt owed,-to be sold on Abram's Auction Block for National & personal debts aquired. (Gen. 12 vs. 1-(5.)

But then, that would out an end to the Covenant Blessing to Abram from his god, & explains why Jesus must die, that all Isra-el not perish. (Jn. 11 vs. 50-53.)

Well, I always wanted this contoversy explained, & now it has...

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