Marcionite Church Podcast

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One Gospel. One Faith. One God. Once the largest Pre-Nicene Christian denomination in the world, the Marcionite Christian Church (https://marcionitechurch.org) was founded in 144 A.D. by Saint Marcion of Sinope (https://www.marcionitechurch.org/Saint-Marcion.html) and is the birthplace of the very first (https://theveryfirstbible.org) Christian bible created that same year. The church is also home to the world's oldest (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deir_Ali) carved inscription in the world bearing the name of Jesus dedicated to a Christian church and it reads: "To our Lord and Savior Jesus the Good," written in Koine Greek. Join us as we explore the misunderstood world of early Christian theology using the first bible of 144 A.D. as our guide - hosted by Presbyter Darren Kelama. Visit the Marcionite Church Free Library to download curated materials related to Pre-Nicene Christianity: https://payhip.com/TheVeryFirstBible/collection/all (https://payhip.com/TheVeryFirstBible/collection/all) - or acquire physical copy here (https://linktwin.to/slpBKq).

Publisher

Presbyter Darren Kelama

Category

history · religion & spirituality

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

30 Nov 2025

Latest episode

26 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

11 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   26 Sept 2026

   The Miracle Buried Under Nineveh And The Lie of Original Sin

   Join us for a secular discussion of another fascinating academic paper published by the Marcionite Keleuthos Divinity School, titled: The Shasu Mutation: From Original Sin to Christian Identity Theft, Textual Inversion, and the Hijacking of Western Civilization. On 3 December 1872, before a packed assembly of the Society of Biblical Archaeology - the sitting Prime Minister, William Ewart Gladstone, among the political and ecclesiastical dignitaries - the self-taught cuneiform decipherer George Smith read his translation of Tablet XI of the Epic of Gilgamesh. When he reached the bird sequence of the Babylonian deluge, the room fell into stunned silence: the Noah narrative of Genesis was not a unique, pristine revelation delivered to Moses at the dawn of time but an adaptation of a pagan Mesopotamian blueprint written centuries earlier. This paper argues that the flood was only the first front of a larger operation. The foundational narratives of Genesis - the Garden, the Flood, Babel, the birth of Moses - are a systematic appropriation of older Mesopotamian literature (Gilgamesh, Atrahasis, Adapa, the Sargon legend, the Code of Hammurabi), executed not by copying alone but by moral inversion: the knowledge, self-awareness, technology, and civic life that Mesopotamia celebrated as human ascent are recast as cosmic crimes, and natural mortality is recast as inherited guilt. That inversion - the doctrine of Original Sin - is the initiating anomaly of the present investigation. Read the full paper (https://zenodo.org/records/22932493): https://zenodo.org/records/22932493 (https://zenodo.org/records/22932493) The Very First Bible: (https://theveryfirstbible.org) TheVeryFirstBible.org Marcionite Church (https://MarcioniteChurch.org): MarcioniteChurch.org Journal of Pre-Nicene Christian Studies (https://journal.pre-nicene.org): journal.pre-nicene.org Join the discussions at the new Pre-Nicene Christianity Discussion Forum: (https://forum.marcionitechurch.org) forum.marcionitechurch.org PDF and ebook versions of this paper (with full slides and images) available soon - to be notified, email outreach (at) marcionitechurch.org (http://marcionitechurch.org) 1. A. W. Mitchell, “The Theophanic Replacement Protocol: A Forensic Reconstruction of Divine Identity Theft, Textual Erasure, and the Formation of Nicene Christianity,” Journal of Pre-Nicene Christian Studies 1, no. 5 (2025), https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17964659.↩ (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17964659.↩) 2. A. W. Mitchell, “The Archivist, Not the Heretic: Marcion, Scriptural Proof, and the False Charges of Docetism, Ditheism, and Gnosticism,” Journal of Pre-Nicene Christian Studies 2, no. 9 (2026), https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21985332.↩ (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21985332.↩) 3. Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1976).↩ 4. Susan Blackmore, The Meme Machine (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999).↩ 5. Aaron Lynch, Thought Contagion: How Belief Spreads Through Society (New York: Basic Books, 1996).↩ 6. Richard Dawkins, “Viruses of the Mind,” in Dennett and His Critics: Demystifying Mind, ed. Bo Dahlbom (Oxford: Blackwell, 1993), 12-27.↩ 7. Bernard Cullen, “Parasite Ecology and the Evolution of Religion,” in The Evolution of Complexity, ed. Francis

2. 

   20 Aug 2026

   Marcion of Sinope: Gnostic? Ditheist? Docetist? Nope

   The Keleuthos Divinity School has just published a new academic paper on St. Marcion in the Journal of Pre-Nicene Christian Studies - and it changes everything you've been told about the most maligned figure in Christian history. Today, we join a secular panel as they dissect and discuss the paper in full. Marcionite Church (https://marcionitechurch.org) The Very First Bible (https://theveryfirstbible.org) Journal of Pre-Nicene Christian Studies (https://journal.pre-nicene.org) Download the academic paper free (https://payhip.com/b/lB2pP)

3. 

   9 Jul 2026

   The Great Nothing is coming...and its name is Satan

   What if the earliest Christians didn't believe the God of the Old Testament was God at all? That's the provocative thesis at the heart of this month's featured paper. We walk through the evidence from Paul's original canon, the forensic case against the heresiologists, and why it feels like Satan's earthly proxies are in growing control of the world. Plus: what apatheia is and why it matters right now. Join a panel of secular commentators as they discuss the paper and comment on Presbyter Darren Kelama's recent podcast which asks, "Is Yahweh actually Satan?" Journal of Pre-Nicene Christian Studies (https://journal.pre-nicene.org) The Very First Bible 144 AD (https://theveryfirstbible.org) Marcionite Church (https://marcionitechurch.org)

4. 

   2 Jun 2026

   The Two Hundred Year Secret of Jerusalem

   For two hundred years, the only Christianity that could legally exist inside the walls of Jerusalem was a faith that rejected the Old Testament, worshipped a God completely separate from Yahweh, and used a Bible without a single Jewish scripture. This isn't speculation - it's a structural consequence of Hadrian's ban on Judaism after the Bar Kokhba revolt in AD 135, which made possessing the Torah a capital offense within Aelia Capitolina, the pagan city built on Jerusalem's ruins. In this paper, Chancellor A.W. Mitchell traces the untold story of Marcus, the first Gentile bishop of Jerusalem, who held the mother church's treasury and commissioned Marcion of Sinope as his personal emissary to Rome - armed with 200,000 sesterces and the unalloyed gospel of Paul. When Rome rejected the embassy and returned the money, the Yahwist temple-church alliance launched the greatest textual cover-up in Western history, erasing the true apostolic succession and replacing it with phantom bishops whose names appear in no records except Eusebius' carefully managed list. The forensic scars of that erasure - from Hegesippus' truncated succession to Epiphanius' conspicuous refusal to name Jerusalem - are still legible in the texts that survived. Read the full paper: https://journal.pre-nicene.org/Special-Issue-2026 (https://journal.pre-nicene.org/Special-Issue-2026) Acquire the first Christian bible 144 AD: https://theveryfirstbible.org (https://theveryfirstbible.org) (free) or hardcopy (https://www.amazon.com/Very-First-Bible-Marcion-Sinope/dp/0578641593) Visit the Marcionite Church: https://marcionitechurch.org (https://marcionitechurch.org) Watch mass: https://www.youtube.com/@MarcioniteChurch (https://www.youtube.com/@MarcioniteChurch) Twitter: https://x.com/MarcioniteChurc (https://x.com/MarcioniteChurc)

5. 

   20 May 2026

   The Thirty-Year Window: How Rome Rewrote Paul (144–175 AD)

   This audio overview explores Chancellor A.W. Mitchell’s forensic investigation into the "thirty-year window" (AD 144–175), a critical period when the unalloyed Pauline corpus was systematically adulterated to serve the interests of the Yahwist temple-church alliance. It details the "micro-verse surgery" executed at Roman scriptorium desks, where redactors used "mechanical stitches" and "codicological mathematics" to wedge pro-Torah interpolations into the text while managing "text-inflation" within early single-quire codices like Papyrus 46. The overview further examines the fabrication of the Book of Acts as a "theological Bondo job"—a narrative cover-story designed to smooth over historical contradictions and domesticate the iconoclastic Paul into a Torah-compliant figure. It highlights the "Silent Guard"—the diagnostic silence of early church fathers regarding key verses—and the subsequent "geopolitical laundering" of the newly alloyed text through Irenaeus of Lyons in Gaul to create the illusion of a global consensus. Ultimately, the overview unmasks the "asymmetrical historical revenge" of drafting the ghost of the anti-nomistic Paul into a "chimerical monster" engineered to validate the deity Yahweh and the Hebrew scriptures. Podcast based on paper from: A.W. Mitchell, Chancellor: https://journal.pre-nicene.org/JPCS-June-2026 (https://journal.pre-nicene.org/JPCS-June-2026) Marcionite Keleuthos Divinity School (https://marcionitechurch.org) DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20265848 Free PDF download: https://payhip.com/b/9Pgbp (https://payhip.com/b/9Pgbp) The Very First Bible 144 AD (https://linktwin.to/slpBKq) Primary Sources & Archetypes Apostolikon (The Marcionite Pauline Corpus). Archived Digital Edition. Marcionite Research Library. Accessed May 17, 2026. https://theveryfirstbible.org (http://theveryfirstbible.org). Evangelion (The First Gospel). Archived Digital Edition. Marcionite Church Canon Archive Project. Accessed May 17, 2026. https://theveryfirstbible.org (http://theveryfirstbible.org). Epiphanius of Salamis. The Panarion of Epiphanius of Salamis: Book I (Sects 1–46). Translated by Frank Williams. 2nd ed. Leiden: Brill, 2009. Eusebius of Caesarea. The Church History. Translated by Paul L. Maier. Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel Academic, 2007. Irenaeus of Lyons. Adversus Haereses (Against Heresies). In The Ante-Nicene Fathers, edited by Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson, vol. 1, 315–567. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1994. Tertullian of Carthage. Adversus Marcionem (Against Marcion). Edited and translated by Ernest Evans. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1972. Vatican Library. Latin Manuscript: Archivio Capitolo di San Pietro A.1 (Containing the Stolen Marcionite Prologues). Digitized Manuscript Archive. Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. https://digi.vatlib.it/mss/detail/214664 (https://digi.vatlib.it/mss/detail/214664) BeDuhn, Jason David. The First New Testament: Marcion’s Scriptural Canon. Polebridge Press, 2013. Mitchell, A. W. “The Palimpsest and Mosaic Plagiarism.” *Journal of Pre‑Nicene Christian Studies* 14, no. 2 (May 2026): 112–145. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20059604.

6. 

   9 May 2026

   The Palimpsest and Mosaic Plagiarism: How the Torah Was Larded into the Gospel - A Forensic Examination of Seven Intercalating and Forged Passages in the Pauline Corpus

   The paper, The Palimpsest and Mosaic Plagiarism, argues that the canonical Pauline corpus is a "palimpsest" that has been systematically "larded" with seven specific intercalations designed to bind the original, law-free Gospel to the Abrahamic covenant, Mosaic Law, and Davidic lineage. The research further establishes a "Triune Witness of Descent" through Evangelion 1:1, 1 Corinthians 15:47, and John 3:13, which preserves the original celestial Christology of a pre-existent Son with no earthly biography. Ultimately, the paper concludes that later fabrications like the "Harrowing of Hell" were engineered to neutralize this primitive witness and solidify the orthodox graft. Let's join the roundtable discussion. Full paper: https://journal.pre-nicene.org/JPCS-May-2026 (https://journal.pre-nicene.org/JPCS-May-2026) Primary Sources: The Very First Bible: The Evangelion and Apostolikon. Marcionite Church, 2020. ISBN 978‑0578641591. ()Tertullian. Against Marcion. c. 207‑212.Jerome. Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians. Migne PL 26.Epiphanius of Salamis. Panarion. c. 374‑377.Eusebius of Caesarea. Church History. c. 325.Origen of Alexandria. Commentaries on the Epistle to the Hebrews. Fragments. c. 240.Burkitt, F.C., trans. “The Marcionite Prologues to the Letters of St. Paul.” In The Gospel History and its Transmission, 1906.Le Bas, P., and Waddington, W. H. Inscriptions grecques et latines recueillies en Grèce et en Asie Mineure. Vol. 3, inscription 2558 (Deir Ali). 1870.Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. Codex Vaticanus Arch. B. S. Pietro A 3 (Vat. lat. 214664). 12th century.Muratorian Canon. c. 170‑200. In Catholic Encyclopedia, vol. 3.Gospel of Nicodemus (Acts of Pilate). 4th‑6th century. Secondary Sources: Barnes, Timothy D. Constantine and Eusebius. Harvard University Press, 1981.BeDuhn, Jason D. The First New Testament: Marcion’s Scriptural Canon. Polebridge Press, 2013.Dunn, James D. G. The Epistle to the Galatians. Black’s New Testament Commentary. Hendrickson Publishers, 1993.Ehrman, Bart D. Forged: Writing in the Name of God. HarperOne, 2011.Ehrman, Bart D. The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture: The Effect of Early Christological Controversies on the Text of the New Testament. Oxford University Press, 1993.Hay, David M. Glory at the Right Hand: Psalm 110 in Early Christianity. Abingdon Press, 1973.Knox, John. Marcion and the New Testament: An Essay in the Early History of the Canon. University of Chicago Press, 1942.Tyson, Joseph B. Marcion and Luke‑Acts: A Defining Struggle. University of South Carolina Press, 2006.Lardner, Nathaniel. The Works of Nathaniel Lardner. 1788.Mitchell, A. W. “One Eclipse, Two Earthquakes: The 29 AD Eclipse-Seismic Theophany and the Unified Geophysical Witness for the Primitive Christian Evangelion.” DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17964722, 2026.Mitchell, A. W. “.” DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17964659, 2025. Acquire physical copy of Pre-Nicene bible here (https://linktwin.to/slpBKq).

7. 

   1 Apr 2026

   Pentagon's Hebrew 'War Prayer' Invocation Spurs Church Call For Military Exemptions

   The Central Pontiate of the Marcionite Church (https://marcionitechurch.org) has officially launched a Religious Accommodation (RA) program to assist parishioners currently serving in the military or facing a potential draft. This initiative provides legal and theological support for those seeking to opt out of the conflict in Iran, which the church characterizes as an act of “compelled idolatry." The program is a direct response to the March 26, 2026, prayer service led by U.S. Secretary of War Peter Hegseth. During this service, the Secretary invoked Psalm 18 from the Torah to pray for 'overwhelming violence,' an act the church contends has "officially consecrated the war in the name of the deity Yahweh." In this episode a secular panel explores the controversy and compares the stark differences between a Religious Accommodation (RA) and Conscientious Objector status. Complete walkthrough of the RA submission process. Official Marcionite Church Statement On Iran War: https://www.marcionitechurch.org/Military-Exemption (https://www.marcionitechurch.org/Military-Exemption) Federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act Overview: https://www.findlaw.com/civilrights/discrimination/federal-religious-freedom-restoration-act-overview.html (https://www.findlaw.com/civilrights/discrimination/federal-religious-freedom-restoration-act-overview.html) The Very First Bible: https://theveryfirstbible.org (https://theveryfirstbible.org) RA Press Release: https://www.prlog.org/13136836-marcionite-church-announces-military-exemption-help-after-pentagons-theological-blunder.html (https://www.prlog.org/13136836-marcionite-church-announces-military-exemption-help-after-pentagons-theological-blunder.html) Direct RA Template Link & Instructions: https://payhip.com/b/uVIhP (https://payhip.com/b/uVIhP)

8. 

   16 Mar 2026

   One Eclipse, Two Earthquakes: Jesus Arrives

   You’ve likely seen the headlines recently - a story centering around an academic paper studying a massive earthquake that struck the Dead Sea sometime between 26 and 36 AD. The headlines were typical clickbait, claiming "scientific proof" of the crucifixion. It turns out that earthquake was part of a much larger seismic event coupled with a total solar eclipse - and it wasn't marking a death - it marked an ARRIVAL. Journal of Pre-Nicene Christian Studies: https://journal.pre-nicene.org/One-Eclipse-Two-Earthquakes.html (https://journal.pre-nicene.org/One-Eclipse-Two-Earthquakes.html) NASA: https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEsearch/SEsearchmap.php?Ecl=00291124 (https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEsearch/SEsearchmap.php?Ecl=00291124) The first Christian bible 144 AD https://theveryfirstbible.org (https://theveryfirstbible.org) Raw academic paper (A.W. Mitchell): https://zenodo.org/records/18805868 (https://zenodo.org/records/18805868) Evangelion overview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-AKnEbLD5w (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-AKnEbLD5w) Theophanic Replacement Protocol (TRP): https://journal.pre-nicene.org/TheophanicReplacementProtocol.html (https://journal.pre-nicene.org/TheophanicReplacementProtocol.html)

9. 

   20 Jan 2026

   Two Bibles, Two Gods - One Choice

   The following is a roundtable discussion of the origins of Christianity, divine identity theft and a forensic reconstruction of how the deity Yahweh was grafted onto God Our Father. Participants are not members of the Marcionite Church and are reacting to reading an academic paper entitled: The Theophanic Replacement Protocol. https://zenodo.org/records/17964660 (https://zenodo.org/records/17964660) https://journal.pre-nicene.org/TheophanicReplacementProtocol.html (https://journal.pre-nicene.org/TheophanicReplacementProtocol.html) https://marcionitechurch.org (https://marcionitechurch.org) https://theveryfirstbible.org (https://theveryfirstbible.org) (Evangelion)

10. 

    28 Dec 2025

    Stolen Divinity And The Hijacking Of The Capernaum Eclipse

    Learn how the real story of Jesus' arrival on earth was hijacked and in its place a Judaized Bethlehem horse stall narrative was substituted. The Eclipse Theophany: The foundational astronomical event of Christianity suppressed for millennia, now the subject of a groundbreaking academic paper. The question isn't what are the implications - the question is what AREN'T the implications. Notes: The Theophanic Replacement Protocol: A Forensic Reconstruction of Divine Identity Theft, Textual Erasure, and the Formation of Nicene Christianity (DOI 10.5281/zenodo.17964659) Journal of Pre-Nicene Christian Studies (free download of complete paper) ⁠ (https://journal.pre-nicene.org/)https://journal.pre-nicene.org/⁠ (https://journal.pre-nicene.org/⁠) NASA Eclipse Website ⁠ (https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEsearch/SEsearchmap.php?Ecl=00291124)https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEsearch/SEsearchmap.php?Ecl=00291124⁠ (https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEsearch/SEsearchmap.php?Ecl=00291124⁠) Marcionite Church Eclipse Theophany Page ⁠ (https://www.marcionitechurch.org/Eclipse-Theophany.html)https://www.marcionitechurch.org/Eclipse-Theophany.html⁠ (https://www.marcionitechurch.org/Eclipse-Theophany.html⁠) The Very First Bible ⁠ (https://www.theveryfirstbible.org/)https://www.theveryfirstbible.org/⁠ (https://www.theveryfirstbible.org/⁠) Learn more about Pre-Nicene Christianity: ⁠ (https://www.youtube.com/@prenicenetv)https://www.youtube.com/@prenicenetv⁠ (https://www.youtube.com/@prenicenetv⁠) PCRN Listen Live: ⁠ (https://t.co/peYAQuJZ5r)https://fra-pioneer01.dedicateware.com:2135/stream (https://fra-pioneer01.dedicateware.com:2135/stream)

11. 

    30 Nov 2025

    Why will you never find a letter written by Jesus?

    t's a question that Christian churches and denominations of all stripes would rather you didn't think about, much less ask out loud. It's a question that theologians and biblical scholars have struggled to answer for millenia, and none with any success. How is it that a man who thousands of books, billions of words and millions of letters have been written about could himself have not written down a single word or letter? The Gospel of The Lord: https://www.theveryfirstbible.org/ (https://www.theveryfirstbible.org/) Marcionite Christian Church: https://www.marcionitechurch.org/ (https://www.marcionitechurch.org/) Pre-Nicene Christian Television: https://pre-nicene.org/ (https://pre-nicene.org/) Vatican Library Links to Marcionite Church: https://www.theveryfirstbible.org/vatican.html (https://www.theveryfirstbible.org/vat)

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