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Comparing Marcion And Gnosticism

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IT was used against Marcion and the gnostic. The creed’s most extensive paragraph is the one dealing with the Son. This is because it was precisely in their Christology that Marcion and the Gnostics differed most widely from the church. First of all, we are told that Jesus Christ is the “Son of God.” Other ancient version say. “Son of the same” or his Son as does our present Creed. The important point here is that Jesus is the Son of the God who rules over this world and over all of reality.
Gnosticism believe that the body of Jesus appeared to be fully humans, but was not. They declared that the body is the prison of the spirit, one must control the body and its passions and thus weaken its powers over the spirit. Gnosticism represented a

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