JPCS July, 2026 (Yahweh as Satan)

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This paper examines the original Christian confession as preserved in Paul's Evangelion and Apostolikon - the first Christian canon, faithfully transcribed by Marcion of Sinope (AD 144) - and the systematic suppression of that confession by the Yahweh-loyalist party. A crucial methodological caveat governs the entire inquiry: none of Marcion's own theological writings survive. Every account of his beliefs comes from his enemies - Tertullian, Irenaeus, and Epiphanius - agents of the Yahweh-loyalist temple-church alliance that had subverted the Roman see. The two principal accusations - ditheism (two gods) and docetism (phantom body) - are polemical distortions refuted by the Evangelion itself. The Marcionite confession, as evidenced by the apostolic canon that Marcion transcribed, affirms one God the Father Almighty and one Satan, the Adversary, identified as the being worshiped as Yahweh in the Hebrew Scriptures. This paper, drawing on recent research published in the Journal of Pre-Nicene Christian Studies (Mitchell 2026b), further argues that Marcion acted not as a rogue theologian but as the commissioned emissary of Marcus, the first non-Yahweh-loyalist bishop of Jerusalem, bearing the accumulated treasury of the Jerusalem church to reclaim the Roman see from Yahweh-loyalist infiltration. The final section presents the ancient praxis of apatheia as the essential spiritual discipline for navigating the present eschatological crisis.

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