Was Marcion a literalist ?

[Giuseppe]

Marcion was surely a literalist. But literalist = outsider.

Could Marcion be the real author of the his Gospel, assuming the priority of that Gospel over all the others ?

It is not probable, because a literalist is an outsider, and only the insiders could write a so allegorical story named Gospel.

Therefore Marcion was a sincere historicist because he was moved to be such from a literalist reading of a Gospel.

But even so, that Gospel was ''marcionite'', i.e. meant to be read just as the outsider Marcion read it. As a theological manifesto between old and new.

We don't know. Marcion could be a real deceiver. The Joseph Smith of the early Christianity. After all, his Gospel is really 100% expected under mythicism, IF it was the first. An angel who comes down from heaven and walks here and there... If is not that the more simple and natural way to introduce a celestial angel on the earth, which may be, of grace?


In Mark ''something'' comes from the heaven only during the baptism, therefore leaving a natural doubt in the mind of the reader: who is the Jesus ''came from Nazaret'' before that ''something comes'' down from heaven during baptism? Real man or fiction ?


Assume for a time that Ireneus, Tertullian, Epiphanius, Hegesippus etc were all contemporaries of Marcion:
we would have the plastic representation of how a legend replaces rapidly the previous myth.