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Marcionism was created in 144.

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When Marcion of Sinope (c 85-160 CE) read the scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, he could not understand how the vengeful, judgemental and angry God of the Old Testament could be the same as the God of Jesus in the NewTestament. Read literally, and without the benefit of any glosses, he found so much of the Bible to be so objectionable that he decided it could not possibly be God's Word. So first he rejected the Old Testament in its entirety. Then he set about purging the New Testament of its many allusions to the Old Testament, which he presumed had been incorporated by biased editors.

Marcion's Bible retained ten of Paul's letters, with the texts of Galatians, 1 and 2 Corinthians, Romans, 1 and 2 Thessalonians, Ephesians (which Marcion knew as Laodiceans), Colossians, Philemon, and Philippians 'corrected'. Along with an amended Gospel of Luke, they became the Marcionite Bible.

Marcion's lasting impact on the modern Church was the development of the New Testament. By developing his own canon, he forced the established Church to decide what books it considered to be scripture and to develop its own canon, the New Testament.

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The Roman Empire was not divided and Christianity developed under a unified empire.

Mainstream Christianity was composed of Latin or Western Christianity and Greek or Eastern Christianity. The former was the main form of Christianity in the western part of the Roman Empire and the latter was the main form of Christianity in the eastern part of the Roman Empire. Later they came to be called Catholic and Orthodox respectively. At that time they considered themselves to be two branches of one church, which they called Catholic. Both churches subscribed to the Nicene Creed, which upheld Trinitarianism; that is, the concept of the Holy Trinity. This creed was issued at the first ecumenical council held in Nicaea in 325.

There were also dissident Christian doctrines such as Arianism, Monophysitism, Miaphysitism, Psilanthropism, Modalism (or Sabellianism), Marcionism, Docetism and Gnostic Chisitanity. These doctrines begged to differ with the Nicene Creed in matters of Christology (the theology of the nature of the person of Jesus) and were non-Trinitarian. There was also Novatism and Donatism, which had a more rigorist theology that that of the Nicene Creed.

The most important dissident Christian doctrine was Arian Christianity (named after Arius, a presbyter form Alexandria) which was popular around the Roman Empire and was also adopted by the peoples who invaded the western part of the Roman Empire (Vandals, Sueves, Aland and Burgundians) and by the Goths (both the Visigoths and the Ostrogoths).

In 380 the co-emperors Theodosius I (or the Great) and Gratian issued Edict of Thessalonica. This made mainstream Christianity (the Nicene Creed) the sole legitimate religion of the Roman Empire. The purpose of the edict was to ban dissident Christian doctrines, which were branded as heretic. Theodosius started to persecute them soon afterwards. His main target was Arian Christianity. He also expelled Demophilus of Constantinople, the most important Arian Bishop.

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