Early Church Period

Marcionism is a dual belief system that originated from Marcion of Sinope in Rome teachings in the year 144 . It affirmed that Jesus was a savior who was sent by God and Paul was his principal apostle but Marcion himself rejected Yahweh and the Hebrew Bible . It was referred to as heresy by those who opposed it and wrote a five book treatise against it

Marcionism teachings affirmed that Christianity was different from and opposition Judaism . It opposed the whole of the Hebrew Bible , and declared Hebrews Bible God was a minor

demiurge , who created the earth and was the source of evil

The principles of Marcionism are that many teachings of Jesus Christ are incompatible with those of the god of the Jewish Religion . Referring to Pauline traditions in the Gospel , Marcionism believed that the Gospel opposed to teachings from the old testament that were believed to be misleading from the truth . Paul 's arguments in respect to the gospel and law , grace and wrath , faith and works , spirit and flesh , righteousness and sin , life and death were the base of religious truth

Marcionites holds maltheistic perception of the God of Hebrew Bible as (Yaltabaoth ) inconsistent , wrathful , jealous and genocidal , and created a defective world , a site of suffering and term such a God as a malicious demiurge whom they refer to as Yaltabaoth

Montanus was the founder of Montanism , an early Christian sector founded in the mid 2nd century AD in Phrygia region and its followers are referred to as Cataphrygians . Tertullian was the most widely known Montanist . Montanus claimed to have received a number of revelations from the Holy Ghost beside and strolled in the settlement in Asia where he preached what he claimed to be the Words of God but those who opposed him especially the Orthodox claimed his teaching as but those who opposed him especially the Orthodox claimed his teaching as hearsay . He traveled along with two women who claimed to have received some revelations too , and they urged their follower to pray and fast so that they could receive revelations too . The teachings of Montanism spread from Phrygia , to Africa , Gaul and the rest of the world . Christians also agree with the some teachings of Marcionism like the opposition of murder and genocide that were employed in the Old Testament

Marcionism imposed a high degree of morality to its followers and those who were immoral were some times persecuted . The early encouraged the positive teachings of Montanism and Marcionism however there existed clear differences in the teachings between different sects

Donatism was an unorthodox sect of the early Christianity that was founded by Donatus Magnus and believed that holiness was a mandatory for church members and essential in administration of sacraments . Donatists lived originally in Roman Africa and attained their biggest number in the 4th to 5th centuries

One of the central issues in the Donatists controversy is that at some levels , the church is normally called into the communion with God and...