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en-wikipedia-org-1029		Marcion of Sinope - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	2990	420	68	Marcion preached that the god who sent Jesus into the world was a different, higher deity than the creator god of Judaism.[2] He considered himself a follower of Paul the Apostle, whom he believed to have been the only true apostle of Jesus Christ.[3] He published the earliest extant fixed collection of New Testament books,[4] making him a vital figure in the development of Christian history.[citation needed] Church Fathers such as Justin Martyr, Irenaeus, and Tertullian denounced Marcion as a heretic, and he was excommunicated by the church of Rome around 144.[5] He published the first known canon of Christian scriptures,[6][7] which contained ten Pauline epistles (the Pastoral epistles weren't included) and a shorter version of the Gospel of Luke (the Gospel of Marcion).[8] This made him a catalyst in the process of the development of the New Testament canon by forcing the proto-orthodox Church to respond to his canon.[9]	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-1029.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-1029.txt