…is Jesus more than a “Mr. Nice Guy” who showers each of us with mercy? There was an early Christian heresy labeled Marcionism and, like many heresies, it reappears again and again. Marcionism rejected the mean, judgmental God of the Hebrew Scriptures (or “Old Testament”) in favor of the nice loving God of Jesus. In fact, it carried this view to perhaps its logical extreme by rejecting the Old Testament as canonical for Christians and denying that Yahweh was God. I say that the current views about Nice Guy Jesus bear a great deal of similarity to Marcionism because the current views reject any image of Jesus where He, like the God of the Old Testament, is judgmental. MORE