Yes, that was it. I knew it started by "M" but couldn't find the rest. Thank you.
Indeed Marcionism should be a subject I'll look forward into. Perhaps these "I Century heretics" are what I been seeking for, since one of my first reasons of Agnosticism is the discrepancy and total incoherence between the "God of Love" from Christ and that "hateful and bloodthirsty" God, Yahweh, described on OT.
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"In the god of the [Old Testament] he saw a being whose character was stern justice, and therefore anger, contentiousness and unmercifulness. The law which rules nature and man appeared to him to accord with the characteristics of this god and the kind of law revealed by him, and therefore it seemed credible to him that this god is the creator and lord of the world (κοσμοκράτωρ). As the law which governs the world is inflexible and yet, on the other hand, full of contradictions, just and again brutal, and as the law of the Old Testament exhibits the same features, so the god of creation was to Marcion a being who united in himself the whole gradations of attributes from justice to malevolence, from obstinacy to inconsistency."
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