Posted: Jun 07, 2016 4:57 pm
duvduv wrote:So therefore there was no actual individual who had the name Chrestus in Rome or elsewhere who had followers who were "Abrahamic" sympathizers of the Old Testament?
Christian writings do show or claim that Marcion and even Valentinus worshiped the Good God [Chrestos].
See "Against Marcion" attributed to Tertullian.
http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/03121.htm
Against Marcion 1
Marcion makes his gods unequal: one judicial, harsh, mighty in war; the other mild, placid, and simply good and excellent.
See "Against Marcion" attributed to Ephraem the Syrian.
http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/ephraim2_4_marcion3.htm
Against Marcion III
IF the organs 1 of the body suffice for the gifts of the Good (God), O Marcion, that is to say, the eye for His light, and the ear for His voice, why then does the body not live at the last ?
See "Refutation Against All Heresies" attributed to Hippolytus.
http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/050107.htm
Refutation Against All Heresies 7
But Marcion, a native of Pontus, far more frantic than these (heretics), omitting the majority of the tenets of the greater number (of speculators), (and) advancing into a doctrine still more unabashed, supposed (the existence of) two originating causes of the universe, alleging one of them to be a certain good (principle), but the other an evil one.
See "De Pricipiis" attributed to Origen.
http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/04122.htm
De Principiis 2.7
For although we should concede to Marcion or to Valentinus that it is possible to draw distinctions in the question of Deity, and to describe the nature of the good God as one, and that of the just God as another, what will he devise, or what will he discover.......
Christian writings do show that so-called Heretics like Marcion and Valentinus worshiped Chrestos [the Good God] and that followers or worshipers of Chrestos [the Good God] did not accept the Jesus story.