The most extreme solution was offered by a very early Christian bishop named Marcion, born in the Black Sea city of Sinope around the year 85. Marcion proposed that the church simply abandon the Hebrew Bible altogether as the basis for faith in Christ. The God whose acts and intentions are recorded in the history of the Jews, he argued, is manifestly tainted by evil. A divinity who forbids humans access to knowledge in the Garden of Eden and then punishes them horribly for an act that only the possession of such knowledge could have prevented is not the pure, spiritual, holy, and good God
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