Marcion The Son Of A Catholic Bishop Said " I Will Cause An Eternal Division In Your Church."
8. Marcion was a native of the city of Sinope, in the
province of Pontus, and the son of a Catholic bishop. In his
early days he led a life of continence and retirement ; but for an
act of immorality he was cut off from the Church by his own
father. He then went to Rome, and endeavoured to accomplish
his restoration; but not being able to succeed, he, in a fit of
rage, said " I will cause an eternal division in your Church."
He then united himself to Cerdonius, admitting two principles,
and founding his doctrine on the sixth chapter of St. Luke,
where it is said a good tree cannot bring forth bad fruits. The
good principle, he said, was the author of good, and the bad one
of evil; and the good principle was the father of Jesus Christ, the
giver of grace, and the bad one, the creator of matter and the
founder of the law. He denied the incarnation of the Son of
God, saying it was repugnant to a good God to unite himself
with the filthiness of flesh, and that his soul should have for a
companion a body infected and corrupt by nature. He also
taught the existence of two Gods one, the good God; the
other, an evil one, the God of the Jews, and the creator of the
world. Each of these God's promised to send a Christ. Our
Christ appeared in the reign of Tiberius, and was the good
Christ; the Jewish Christ did not yet come. The Old Testament he rejected, because it was given by the bad principle, or
God of the Jews. Among other errors, he said, that when Jesus
descended into hell, he did not save Abel, or Henoc, or Noah, or
any other of the just of the old law, because they were friends
of the God of the Jews; but that he saved Cain, the Sodomites,
and the Egyptians, because they were the enemies of this
God (13)
The History of Heresies and Their Refutation by Alphonsus M Liguori.
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