Marcion's Gospel and Luke

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Hello, all.

I recently learnt about parallels with Marcion’s Gospel of the Lord and Luke’s Gospel; which is commonly held to be believed to have been Marcion rewriting Luke’s Gospel, but editing as he went along.

I was wondering if there was any evidence that Marcion’s book was written first (as purported by the likes of Charles B. Waite and John Knox), and the author of Luke-Acts copied/edited it, rather than the more commonly held belief that Luke was written first?
 
Zadeth said:
Hello, all.

I recently learnt about parallels with Marcion’s Gospel of the Lord and Luke’s Gospel; which is commonly held to be believed to have been Marcion rewriting Luke’s Gospel, but editing as he went along.

I was wondering if there was any evidence that Marcion’s book was written first (as purported by the likes of Charles B. Waite and John Knox), and the author of Luke-Acts copied/edited it, rather than the more commonly held belief that Luke was written first?
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Marcion was born in the 2nd Century. St. Luke was likely dead before Marcion was even born. St. Luke was a contemporary of the Apostles…Marcion was not. Marcion extracted large portions of Luke’s Gospel because Marcion didn’t want any references to the Old Testament (due to Marcion’s heretical beliefs). Marcion believed there were two Gods, one of the Old Testament and one of the New Testament…which of course is heresy. Catholic Encyclopedia is a good reference: newadvent.org/cathen/09645c.htm
 
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Marcion was born in the 2nd Century. St. Luke was likely dead before Marcion was even born. St. Luke was a contemporary of the Apostles…Marcion was not. Marcion extracted large portions of Luke’s Gospel because Marcion didn’t want any references to the Old Testament (due to Marcion’s heretical beliefs). Marcion believed there were two Gods, one of the Old Testament and one of the New Testament…which of course is heresy. Catholic Encyclopedia is a good reference: newadvent.org/cathen/09645c.htm
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two Gods ? wonder why Marcion didn’t understand that the Old Testament writer’s didn’t see God clearly.
 
The Gospel is essentially a knowable ‘entity’ of God’s divine life.
 
Zadeth said:
Hello, all.

I recently learnt about parallels with Marcion’s Gospel of the Lord and Luke’s Gospel; which is commonly held to be believed to have been Marcion rewriting Luke’s Gospel, but editing as he went along.

I was wondering if there was any evidence that Marcion’s book was written first (as purported by the likes of Charles B. Waite and John Knox), and the author of Luke-Acts copied/edited it, rather than the more commonly held belief that Luke was written first?
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Well, none. The evidence actually points to the contrary.

One problem I think with the idea that Marcion’s gospel was first (and that Luke-Acts was a ‘purified’ version of it) is that Marcion’s teaching only became influential during the mid-2nd century, whereas even Knox and Joseph Tyson (another scholar who claims likewise) think that Luke-Acts was written decades earlier, around AD 115-120. Marcion was already alive at the time, but his ideas really only became widely known late in his life.
 
Gospel synoptics is real. The epistles pre-suppose an understanding of divine law. The divine synoptics is impossible without the dogmatic degree of love. The semantics of the new testament is an interesting topic, the Holy Spirit does “things” by reason of eternal law, which is not void in all its salvific and true consciential dimensive reality.
 
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