Marcion accepted Jesus’s divinity; he fully agreed with John’s position that the Logos was God. When he spoke of “the God revealed by Jesus,” he meant the God revealed in the form of Jesus. At the same time, Marcion recognized Yahweh, the God of the Hebrew Bible, as the creator of the world. In fact, he seems to have read the book of Genesis literally. But his reading only made Jesus and Yahweh seem more dissimilar. What kind of God, he wondered, would make such a wretched world—a world of want and
