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The premise of Marcionism is that many of the teachings of Christ are incompatible with the god of the Jewish religion. Focusing on the Pauline traditions of the Gospel, Marcion felt that all other concepts of the [[Gospel]], and especially any association with the Old Testament religion, were opposed to, and a backsliding from the truth. He further regarded the arguments of Paul regarding law and gospel, wrath and grace, works and faith, flesh and spirit, sin and righteousness, and death and life as the essence of religious truth. He ascribed these aspects and characteristics to two principles, the righteous and wrathful god of the [[Old Testament]], who is at the same time identical with the creator of the world, and a second God of the Gospel, quite unknown before Christ, who is only love and mercy. Marcion gathered scriptures from the Jewish tradition, and juxtaposed these against the sayings and teachings from the Gospel of Luke, the Epistles of Paul (but not the Pastoral Epistles or the Epistle to the Hebrews), and the added Marcionite Epistle to the Laodiceans, in a work entitled the ‘‘Antithesis’‘. Marcion’s version of Luke did not resemble the version that is now regarded as canonical. It not only lacked all prophecies of Christ's coming and had but also contained differences with the now canonical version, as well as other serious theological implications. In bringing together these texts, Marcion redacted what is perhaps the first attempt at a New Testament canon on record, which he called the Apostolikon, which reflected his belief in writings associated with the apostle Paul and Jesus.