What's Wrong With Mainstream Scholarship

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Re: What's Wrong With Mainstream Scholarship

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To those whose interpretation of a 2nd century Christianity depended on the Marcionites having had a gospel and the so-called Paulist epistles before orthodox Christianity developed their own canon.
Peter Kirby wrote:"doctrinally vital notion that their founder [Marcion] lived"

Doctrinally vital to whom?
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Re: What's Wrong With Mainstream Scholarship

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Duvduv wrote:
Peter Kirby wrote:"doctrinally vital notion that their founder [Marcion] lived"

Doctrinally vital to whom?
To those whose interpretation of a 2nd century Christianity depended on the Marcionites having had a gospel and the so-called Paulist epistles before orthodox Christianity developed their own canon.
This is just getting weird. I've never met a Christian for whom "2nd century Christianity...Marcionites" matter at all to their "vital doctrines." Perhaps you can quote an example of what you're supposedly seeing.
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