No false teaching ever begins with the crazy stuff. Every false teaching begins with something

that sounds true, but is actually a lie. Hello, friends, and welcome back to Verity

podcast. I'm Felicia Masonheimer, your host and the founder of Every Woman a Theologian. And right now,

we are doing a series on ancient heresies and false teachings. How do we discern these as they

reappear in today's society? In this episode, we're going to look at a heresy called

Marcionism, named for a man named Marcian from the first few centuries of church history.

We're going to learn about what Marcian didn't like about the Old Testament and how we're seeing

parallels to this same attitude today. Then we're going to talk about the importance of the

Old Testament and why Christians need to pay attention to the important

truths that are found in this text. This is going to cross over a little bit with what we talked

about in the Gnosticism episodes. So if you haven't watched those two episodes that we did on

Gnosticism, head back and watched those. Let's start with who Marcian was, what he taught,

and then we'll get into some of the implications of his worldview. So Marcian was a pastor's kid.

His father was a bishop in the southern coast of the Black Sea. And this is still very early on

in Christianity. We believe he was not Jewish.

He was Gentile or Greek. And at this point, the church has spread out of Israel and Palestine

throughout Europe. And so now it's reaching up towards the Black Sea, which is where his father

was pastoring a church.

And so he grows up in the church. He grows up around Christianity. But as he grows, he begins

to develop this worldview that includes two very significant factors. Number one, he absolutely

hates Judaism. And number two, he doesn't

like the material world. Now, again, if you watched or listened to the Gnosticism episode,

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