The text, which you can read here, has been partially reconstructed from the many references to it, and quotations from it, made by his detractors - though this fact in itself raises doubts about the accuracy of the reconstructed text, and has led to questions about its similarities with "The Book of Luke"; many scholars believe it may even be an early version of Luke.
Marcionism affirms Jesus as the Messiah, regards Paul of Tarsus as his chief apostle, and rejects both the Tanach and the Jewish God, insisting that Elohim was both a separate and a lower divinity than the all-forgiving God of Jesus, a view that comes close to Gnosticism.
Marcion's teachings were condemned as heresy in 144 CE.
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