According to Marcion, the title God was given to the Demiurge, who was to be sharply distinguished from the higher Good God.

According to most interpretations of Matthew 5: 17, 18, 19, and 20, and most Christian views of the Old Covenant, these new interpretations of the Law and Prophets are not opposed to the Old Testament, which was the position of Marcion, but form Jesus ' new teachings which bring about salvation, and hence must be adhered to, as emphasized in Matthew 7: 24-27 towards the end of the sermon.

According to Tertullian and other writers of the mainstream Church ( which scholars refer to as Proto-orthodox Christianity ), the movement known as Marcionism began with the teachings and excommunication of Marcion around 144.

According to a remark by Origen ( Commentary on the Gospel of Matthew 15. 3 ), Marcion " prohibited allegorical interpretations of the scripture ".

According to the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article on Marcion: " It was no mere school for the learned, disclosed no mysteries for the privileged, but sought to lay the foundation of the Christian community on the pure gospel, the authentic institutes of Christ.

According to this view, Marcion eliminated the first two chapters of Luke concerning the nativity, and began his gospel at Capernaum making modifications to the remainder suitable to Marcionism.

According to a 16th century French poem, Dionysus, the god of intoxication, and of wine, was pursuing a maiden named Amethystos, who refused his affections.

According to The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Asgard is derived from Old Norse āss, god + garðr, enclosure ; from Indo-European roots ansu-spirit, demon ( see cognate ahura ) + gher-grasp, enclose ( see cognates garden and yard ).< ref >; See also ansu-and gher -< sup > 1 </ sup > in " Appendix I: Indo-European Roots " in the same work .</ ref >

According to Critias, the Hellenic gods of old divided the land so that each god might own a lot ; Poseidon was appropriately, and to his liking, bequeathed the island of Atlantis.

According to the Prose Edda, the bridge ends in heaven at Himinbjörg, the residence of the god Heimdallr, who guards it from the jötnar.

According to Josephus, power made Caligula incredibly conceited and led him to think he was a god.

According to a number of scholars, the Christ story contains mythical themes such as descent to the underworld, the heroic monomyth, and the " dying god " ( see section below on " mythical themes and types ").

According to Dumezil the forerunner of all frame gods is an Indian epic hero who was the image ( avatar ) of the Vedic god Dyaus.

According to the first one, the Greek god Poseidon wanted to marry Amphitrite, a beautiful nereid.

According to Suetonius, he was the first Roman Emperor who had demanded to be addressed as dominus et deus ( master and god ).

According to the Books of Kings, Elijah defended the worship of Yahweh over that of the Phoenician god Baal ; he raised the dead, brought fire down from the sky, and was taken up in a whirlwind ( either accompanied by a chariot and horses of flame or riding in it ).

According to one famous episode, shortly after the Soga's began worshipping the new Buddha statue, a plague broke out, which the Mononobe's promptly attributed to a curse by Japan's traditional deities as punishment for worshipping the foreign god.

According to Pseudo-Apollodorus, Eos consorted with the war god Ares and was thereupon cursed with unsatisfiable sexual desire by the jealous Aphrodite.

According to Alcuin's Life of St. Willebrord, the saint visited an island between Frisia and Denmark that was sacred to Fosite and was called Fositesland after the god worshipped there.

According to Greek mythology, hexameter was invented by the god Hermes.

According to some Hindu mythological accounts, the god Krishna obtained the Syamantaka from Jambavanta, whose daughter Jambavati later married Krishna.

" According to that text, vibration involves a physical set of steps, starting in a standing position, breathing in through the nose while imagining the name of the god entering with the breath, imagining that breath travelling through the entire body, stepping forward with the left foot while throwing the body forward with arms outstretched, visualizing the name rushing out when spoken, ending in an upright stance, with the right forefinger placed upon the lips.

According to their cosmology, each sun was a god with its own cosmic era.

According to the Aztec creation myth, the god demanded human sacrifice as tribute and without it would refuse to move through the sky.

According to the legend, Jupiter made him a god and guardian spirit of the river ( also called Volturnus, " rolling water ").

According to a widely accepted theory ( the " Kenite hypothesis "), the Edomite god YHW could have been brought north to the Canaanite hill country and the early Israelites by migratory Edomite desert tribes, of whom the Kenites were one.

According to the Bible the first king, Saul, was a Gibeonite, a tribe with its roots in Edom, and in order to unify the new kingdom and cement his own authority Saul promoted his own god, Yahweh, as god of the kingdom ; previously, each extended family or clan was the " people " of a particular god, but now the entire Israelite community became the " people of Yahweh ".

According to the book of Acts, contained in the Christian New Testament, when the Apostle Paul visited Athens, he saw an altar with an inscription dedicated to that god, and, when invited to speak to the Athenian elite at the Areopagus gave the following speech:

According to Norse mythology, the first humans, Ask and Embla, were formed out of two pieces of driftwood, an ash and an elm, by the god Odin and his brothers, Vili and Vé.

According to the myth, Old Order then vanishes at stage left and reappears at extreme stage right, but Director Shuz skillfully sidesteps the rather gooshey problem of stage effects by simply having Miss Arapacis walk across the stage.

According to the writer Timothy Dufort, by 1969, all Church of England bishops had acquired Old Catholic lines of apostolic succession recognised by the Holy See.

According to scholars including Neil Forsyth and John L. McKenzie, the Old Testament incorporates stories, or fragments of stories, from extra-biblical mythology.

According to tradition, it was written around the 6th century BC by the sage Laozi ( or Lao Tzu, " Old Master "), a record-keeper at the Zhou Dynasty court, by whose name the text is known in China.

According to, the Śulba Sūtras contain " the earliest extant verbal expression of the Pythagorean Theorem in the world, although it had already been known to the Old Babylonians.

According to English philologist Walter William Skeat ( 1835-1912 ), the origin is to be found in the name for a cask or liquid measure appearing in various forms in several Teutonic languages, in Dutch oxhooft ( modern okshoofd ), Danish oxehoved, Old Swedish oxhufvod, etc.

According to Greenberg, Eurasiatic and Amerind form a genetic node, being more closely related to each other than either is to " the other families of the Old World ".

According to conservative estimates, the introduction of the potato was responsible for a quarter of the growth in Old World population and urbanization between 1700 and 1900.

According to Presbyterian and Reformed Christians, this theological framework is important to the Biblical case for infant baptism because it provides a reason for thinking there is strong continuity between the Old and New Testaments.

According to Homer ( Odyssey iv: 412 ), the sandy island of Pharos situated off the coast of the Nile Delta was the home of Proteus, the oracular Old Man of the Sea and herdsman of the sea-beasts.

According to the later thirteenth century Old French Continuation of William of Tyre, Raynald captured Saladin's sister in a raid on a caravan, although this claim is not attested in contemporary sources, Muslim or Frankish, instead stating that Raynald had attacked a preceding caravan, and Saladin set guards to ensure the safety of his sister and her son, who came to no harm.

* The Bible — the Old Testament According to Spike Milligan ( 1993 )

According to recent research, the word dates from before the sail was taken into use by the Germanic peoples of North-Western Europe, because the Old Frisian spelling shows that the word was pronounced with a palatal k and thus in all probability existed in North-Western Germanic before that palatalization happened, i. e. in the 5th century or before ( in the western branch ).

* 4004 BC: According to the Ussher chronology, created by James Ussher based on the Old Testament of the Bible, this is when the universe is created at nightfall preceding October 23.

According to Christopher Frayling's book Something to do with Death, Leone knew a great deal about the American Old West.

According to this view, Old East Slavic diverged into Belarusian and Ukrainian to the west ( collectively, the Ruthenian language of the 15th to 18th centuries ), and Old Russian to the north-east, after the political boundaries of Kievan Rus ' were redrawn in the 14th century.

According to their point of view, the diversification of the Old East Slavic language took place in the 8th or early 9th century.

According to historian Robert Brugger, "... the measure marked a notable departure from Old World oppression.

According to the mythic history in the Samguk Yusa, the Gojoseon ( Old Joseon ) was founded in northern Korea and Manchuria in 2333 BCE.

According to oral tradition, new Austronesian clans ( Malays, Javanese, Bugis, and Orang Laut ), historically referred to in general, regardless of their native island, as the " Hova " ( from Old Bugis uwa, " commoner ") landed in the North West and East coast of the island.

According to Snorri Sturluson's Heimskringla, he was named Magnus ( Magnús in Old Norse ) by Sigvatr Þórðarson, his father's Icelandic skald, after Charlemagne, Carolus Magnus in Latin.