Old Testament not included in Christian Bible

What would have happened if Marcian had has say and Christianity evolved without including the Old Testament in its Bible?
 
What would have happened if Marcian had has say and Christianity evolved without including the Old Testament in its Bible?

Okay, well, Marcion's 'bible' was the Pauline epistles and the Gospel of Luke and Acts. Can't remember if the other letters (James, Hebrews, Peter I & II, John I, II, III) were included. Probably none of the apocalyptic literature (that was a Jewish trend the Christians took over).

So what does that leave us with? A probably less hazy line between the Jews and the Christians. Considering that the other books were thrown out by Marcion because he regarded them as being too Jewish, and YHWH as "evil/malevolent", possibly the Christians are more hardline on their semitic counterparts than OTL. IIRC, the bibles issued by the Nazis to German soldiers in WWII were basically Marcion's idea mass-produced.
 
No Old Testament is different from complete Marcionite Christianity.
But anyway, that would leave Christianity without a lot of stories about a puzzling god and a defiant weird little middle eastern people. No cosmology, and really not a lot of tradition at first.
 
No Old Testament, or only limited bits, means that Christianity and Judaism are very separate from the get-go. This may affect the relationships between Islam and Christianity, as Islam "accepts" much of the narrative of the Old Testament albeit with alterations and omissions. Rather than seeing Christians as people of the book, they may be treated the same as those who are not of the Abrahamic tradition. This would have major Mothra size butterflies. Excluding, rather than superseding/modifying the Old Testament, will make conversion of Jews to the new faith much more problematic and potentially relationships between Christians and Jews even worse than OTL.
 
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