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Privacy policy About Conservapedia Disclaimers Mobile view. I did get to reconnect with some old-timer friends: they were easy to find since they all sat in the same pews they were sitting in two years ago. You know how that is. We tacked on a few extra days to hang out in Boston: breathing in the sea air, taking in the urban vibe, eating a lot of seafood.
But being a bit of a foodie, we enjoyed some finer dining establishments too. I had a delicious piece of wild caught striped bass delicately wood-grilled with a fava bean ragout and wilted arugula, pretentiously plated as they do almost everything in Boston. Flying back I saw Food and Wine Magazine cited Minneapolis as an up-and-coming avant-garde food scene, albeit without any of the pretentiousness.
See the picture I took of the dish I ate. I defy you identify what food this is. Granted, pretense is part of what it means to go to a fine restaurant these days. It can be an intimidating experience. He then proceeds to ask a lot of questions intended to heighten your insecurity, which we put up with since this is why we go out to eat. Afterwards, he narrates the specials with words the chef probably made up that afternoon.
One taste will tell you whether the chef is legit. Each had a fervent following keen for a take on the latest religious craze.
Just like restaurant crazes that come and go—Asian fusion, rustic American, Italian small plates or nouveau Scandinavian—fads showed up in religion too, be they emergent, ancient-future liturgical, seeker-sensitive, market-driven, unchurched relevant or merely old-time hymns put to pop rock rhythms not that we would know anything about this.
An opportunistic prophet could turn a profit if he wanted to, exploiting eager audiences solely for personal benefit. Among the earliest documents in the church was the Didache, based on the teaching of the twelve apostles.
It offered simple tests for determining whether a prophet was legit. For instance, if someone claiming a word from the Lord stuck around more than two days or asked for money, then he you knew that he was a one bad apple. Either that or a Congregational minister. These days, true prophets and preachers are still rightly judged by their fruit.
Content and conduct still matter. Marcion made a donation of , sesterces to the church in Rome. Conflicts with the church of Rome arose and he was eventually excommunicated, his donation being returned to him. After his excommunication, he returned to Asia Minor, where he continued to lead his many church congregations and teach the Christian gospel in its Marcionite version. According to anti-Marcionite sources, Marcion's teacher was the Simonian Cerdo.
Irenaeus writes that "a certain Cerdo, originating from the Simonians, came to Rome under Hyginus In , Epiphanius claimed that after beginnings as an ascetic, Marcion seduced a virgin and was accordingly excommunicated by his father, prompting him to leave his home town. This account has been doubted by many scholars, who consider it "malicious gossip".
More recently, Bart D. Ehrman suggests that this "seduction of a virgin" was a metaphor for his corruption of the Christian Church, with the Church portrayed as the undefiled virgin. Teachings Study of the Hebrew scriptures, along with received writings circulating in the nascent Church, led Marcion to conclude that many of the teachings of Jesus were incompatible with the actions of Yahweh, the God of War of the Hebrew Bible.
Marcion responded by developing a ditheistic system of belief around the year This notion of two gods—a higher transcendent one and a lower world creator and ruler—allowed Marcion to reconcile his perceived contradictions between Christian Old Covenant theology and the Gospel message proclaimed by the New Testament.
There was a huge amount of debate going on, and there had not been long enough for precedent to really have been established. One of the major debates that rose again and again was exactly how much of the Jewish faith should be incorporated into the Christian faith.
Some believed that almost all of it should, and almost everyone believed that they could not simply abandon their Jewish roots. But Marcion felt the opposite. He believed the Jewish traditions should not be continued by Christians because he thought they were two completely separate religions, with different gods.
In his design of the Bible , there is no reference to the Old Testament prophets. This of course is completely different from modern Christianity. Some people believe that Marcion Christianity can be helpful to people today because it champions the goodness within individuals, and the belief that everything bad will eventually be defeated.
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