The Very First Bible

Wow! Interesting facts and information found in this Bible

This version of the New Testament is pretty much in line with the current new testament w/o the chapter & book separation. Very enlightening, definitely God's word original. I've been comparing it to my current bible. It's a very interesting read. Love it bout to read it again

It's good to see what the first Christian Bible says. I recommend it to all Christians. It has one life of Jesus book, which makes it to here there are not 4 gospels yet in this Bible

I bought this book to study ancient history in the times Christians had it so hard. I would recommend any student researching the times of the church during Christ to buy this book. Very interesting read.

Excellent reconstruction of Marcion's Bible! This is the book that motivated that other group of "Christians" to create their own Bible and Judaize their religion. Any fan of western theology should take the time to page thru The First Bible!

Purportedly, this is Marcion's list of what he considered were the inspired texts of Scripture. Needless to say that Marcion was a heretic who taught that the violent God of the Hebrew Bible is not in any way associated with the compassionate God of the New Testament and, of course, that Jesus is not God. Marcion excluded those portions of Scripture he believed were not inspired; therefore his "Bible" contained only one Gospel and ten letters of Paul the apostle. Each of all these writings are very much shortened with much removed when compared to the Protestant (as well as Catholic) compilation of what is believed ti be the inspired texts; and, of course, due to it's brevity, the verse numbering system will not coincide with a regular Bible. It is a good and interesting read, which is why I gave it three stars, but, of course, it falls short of what the Bible teaches and assumes what it cannot really defend.

Interesting

A book worthy of tossing in the fire as heretical. This is propaganda by the heretical Marcionite Church. Just look it up if you want to understand better the heresy or read the other one star reviews. If you are looking to confirm an unbiblical view of who Jesus Christ is, truly one with the Father, and Spirit, sadly, this book will help you continue to sit in damnable unbelief. Jesus Christ is Lord of all. Marcion was a heretic and the early apostles and teachers who maintained the truth of Christ and those first disciples who were taught by Him, fought against encroaching Gnosticism and marcionism which taught and still teaches Jesus Christ is not God come in the flesh to show us the Father and save those who put their hope and trust in His Only begotten Son, who’s sacrifice alone is accepted as payment for the sin of mankind. They teach two different deities in old and new testament, inconsistent with each other, which is false teaching. You will do better reading the Geneva Bible in English, to have a closer look at the text in English, in which the chapters and verses are well formatted with book titles printed at the top of every page for easy reference. There is no information I could find about who translated this copy in my hand, alleged to be authentic to the first century. Well, it wasn’t originally written in English, so it’s important to know who translated to English. It says, transcribed by Marcion of Sinope, but any proto version of English at that time, whatever tribal language that would have been, would not be understandable at all to a modern English speaker. And certainly this Marcion, in 144AD, did not speak any form of English as he was from the ancient Sinope, which would have been in what is today the country of Turkey. In church history Marcion was known as a heretic and Marcionism is heretical and false according to all of scripture. This book encourages the resurgence of this heresy which had died out sometime around the 5th century. Compare Luke 13 with this book chapters 9-10 (pgs 33-39) to see all the deletions from scripture.

A slightly watered down version of Luke, completely unlike and even at odds with the major reconstructions such as from Roth, BeDuhn, Klinghardt. There is a minute useful part at the end where it gets explained in a few pages how Christianity slapped the "Old Testament" onto Marcion in an effort to shoehorn it into the new dogma. Marcion composed his gospel before Mark, Luke and Matthew, yes - but it was nothing like this. Regarding the Apostolikon there are a handful of useful takeaways but the reconstruction of it is similar to that of the Evangellion: just a text that is almost identical to what we have, without any notes, motivations, or anything useful

Easy read.

Everyone should read it

Always felt the god of the old testament (Jewish bible) wasn't God, the Father of Jesus. Things didn't make sense to me. So, when I discovered the Very First Bible, I immediately knew my heart was right all along. It's not a mystery. It's plain and simple. It's light vs. darkness! Plus, the first sentence tells you straight that Jesus descended - from above (not born from Mary or whoever!) I recommend this book, even for the sceptics. You make your mind up, at the end. Belief is personal.

It's not the real first bible