User talk:Literart

The article on the New Testament, while informative, does not mention one of the most important facts about its origin. The early Christian church used what we call the Old Testament as its scripture, but the heretic Marcion taught that the old Hebrew god, sometimes capricious and brutal, had been replaced by the gentler Father in Heaven introduced by Jesus.

Accordingly, he assembled a new set of scriptures, and achieved such a wide following that the established church felt obliged to produce a similar collection of writings, which largely followed the format of that produced by Marcion, and included the secular letters of the Apostle Paul. Until this time, what we know as the New Testament did not exist.