Editing Paul the Apostle (section)

===Marcion===
{{Main|Marcion|Marcionites}}
Marcionism, regarded as heresy by contemporary mainstream Christianity, was an [[Early Christian]] [[Dualistic cosmology|dualist]] [[belief system]] that originated in the teachings of [[Marcion of Sinope]] at Rome around the year 144.{{refn|group=note|115 years and 6 months from the [[Crucifixion]], according to [[Tertullian]]'s reckoning in {{lang|la|Adversus Marcionem}}, xv}} Marcion asserted that Paul was the only [[Apostles in the New Testament|apostle]] who had rightly understood the new message of [[salvation]] as delivered by Christ.{{sfn|Mack|1995}}

Marcion believed Jesus was the savior sent by [[God in Christianity|God]], and Paul the Apostle was his chief apostle, but he rejected the [[Hebrew Bible]] and the [[Yahweh|God of Israel]]. Marcionists believed that the [[Divine retribution|wrathful Hebrew God]] was a separate and lower entity than the [[Love of God|all-forgiving God]] of the New Testament.