Reflection 5

            This week discussion talks about Marcion of Sinope who embrace the Paul and went to Asia Minor. The beliefs are there are two different God- the creator-God in the OT and the good-God in the NT, Christ was not born of a virgin woman that means a son of a good-God and a stranger of a creator-God, Christ had no physical resurrection, people that rejected Christ were to be punished on judgment day, marriage is not allowed, not allowed to eat meat and drink wine, and lastly everyone must baptized. He was rejected as a heretic in Rome third time. He started a Church and was a student of and believer of Paul. Another is the Council and Creeds and it’s to counter threat of heresies and to clarify Christian doctrines.

            I learned that every belief or even my teaching should have the reference of the scripture and it should not contradict to what the Bible says about Christ. There are lots of teaching today that sometimes would corrupt the people’s mind and doing such things that are unlawful. I learned before that the reality of life seems so unfair because of misunderstanding then it will come to the point of punishment. I discover that conflict occur because of the reality of the teaching and its meaning that affect their way of practices and standard of faith. They are just an idealistic person that concludes reality as their experiences. I know how to balance to determine the person of Christ and build the foundation that is proven by the authority of the Scripture. From the past experience, I heard about some teachings of other religion that makes me think how to explain some of their views base to the bible.