Marcion of Sinope (d. 160) promoted a heresy that the "God of the OT" was different from the "God of the NT." He argued that the wrathful OT God must be separate from the all-forgiving, all merciful God of the NT. Thus, for Marcion there was a certain opposition of the God of past times with the God of present times. Marcionism has resurfaced in our day as various efforts have been made to explain away the“harsh and disciplinarian" ways of the "Church of old" with the more "lenient, merciful and accepting ways" of the "Church in our modern times." God the Holy Ghost, the soul of the Church, reveals the lie behind such heretical thinking. We cannot truthfully say that a doctrine no longer has to be believed or practiced, or that disciplines approved and practiced for centuries are now wrong. What the previous Catholic generations held as sacred, must remain sacred and great for us too. (Read text of sermon.)
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