Amaleq13

There is nothing in that passage that suggests, let alone supports, your suggestion. Paul appears to be referring to the pagan gods the Galatians worshipped prior to accepting his gospel.

dog-on

Source?

BTW, Marcion was from where?

Amaleq13

Galatians 4:8 :huh:

Paul is addressing the Galatians and mentions their prior worship of false gods.

There is no basis for your suggestion in this passage.

Possibly Pontus but that doesn't appear to help you.

dog-on

From Wiki

Pontus (Greek: �*όντος) is a region on the southern coast of the Black Sea. Pontos (the main) following the exploration and the colonization of the Anatolian and other Black Sea cities by the Ionian Greeks beginning about the end of the Greek Dark Ages.

Galatia
Ancient Galatia was an area in the highlands of central Anatolia in modern Turkey. Galatia was bounded on the north by Bithynia and Paphlagonia, on the east by Pontus, on the south by Lycaonia and Cappadocia, and on the west by the remainder of Phrygia, the eastern part of which the Gauls had invaded.[1] The modern capital of Turkey, Ankara (ancient Ancyra), was also the capital of ancient Galatia.


huh?

Ben C Smith

So.... Paul wrote to a group of people from Anatolian Galatia, and Marcion later hailed from Anatolian Pontus, which adjoins it.

Is there supposed to be a punchline?

Ben.

dog-on

Marcion actually having written Galatians, would be the icing on the cake...


Nah Ben, this time I was simply pointing out that some possibilities do actually make logistical sense...

Ben C Smith

So the extent of your claim is that Marcion writing Galatians makes logistical sense? Where would Marcion have to hail from for it not to make logistical sense?

Ben.

dog-on

Kansas.

dog-on

and Ben, that is not the extent of the claim...the proceding was simply a reply to some hand waving...

Ben C Smith

So, basically, if Marcion hails from, say, anywhere in the Roman empire (and undoubtedly even points beyond it), writing an epistle to the Galatians is logistically feasible?

Ben.