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Marcionite

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A person who followed Marcion and did not accept the Old Testament as scripture

noun
/ˈmɑrʃəˌnaɪt/

Specialized

: marcionita

As a Marcionite, she believed that the Old Testament was not a true representation of God.

Examples

Many scholars study the views of Marcionites to understand the early divergence in Christian thought.
Because there did not exist a demon or Marcionite God to condemn man to the existence of a machine or to transform him into a machine, man invented such a God; or rather, he even had the daring to attribute to himself the part of this supplementary God; but he took on this part exclusively with the aim of wreaking upon himself that damage which he could not invite upon himself from other divinities.

Academic text (2016)
The group's Marcionite beliefs led them to reject the teachings of the Jewish scriptures.

Surface Forms

Marcionite singular

Marcionites plural

Morphology

Marcionite = Marcion (semi-transparent) = Marcion + ite

The suffix '-ite' productively forms nouns meaning 'a follower of' or 'adherent to' a person or movement, but understanding who Marcion was requires historical knowledge.

Etymology

The word Marcionite comes from the name Marcion and the ending -ite, which means 'follower'. A Marcionite is someone who followed Marcion and his idea of rejecting the Old Testament, so the word means a follower of his teachings.