Marcion's God
deity figure · 1 work · 8 mentions · 22 anchored passages
the best god · Marcion's god · the alien god · the other god · the new god · the unknown god · your god · that best one · that god · that other God
in the texts
Adversus Marcionem
The second, 'good' god Marcion posits alongside the Creator, said to be alien, unknown, and without works of his own.
Or else show a reason worthy of God why he made nothing, if he exists;
either we must deny that God is the supreme great One, which no wise man will allow, or we must allow it to be shared with no other.
Certainly, whatever other god you bring in, you will not be able to maintain him a god under any other form than by ascribing to him also that which is proper to divinity — as eternity, so also supreme greatness.