The meme recycles the corrupted, Judaized Gospel tradition that the later “Catholic” church imposed on the authentic teaching of Christ and the Apostle Paul. As Marcion taught in the mid-2nd century—and as confirmed by modern reconstructions of his scriptures in Jason D. BeDuhn’s The First New Testament: Marcion’s Scriptural Canon (2013) and M. David Litwa’s Marcion: The Gospel of a Wholly Good God (2025)—these supposed “Jewish” elements are later interpolations by false apostles or deliberate misrepresentations. Jesus revealed a wholly unknown and alien good God of pure love and mercy—not the tribal, wrathful Yahweh of the Old Testament. Marcion’s Evangelion (his restored Gospel) and Apostolikon (ten authentic Pauline letters) form the first New Testament, free of such corruptions (BeDuhn, chs. 3–4; Litwa, chs. 3–6).

Tribe of Judah / Son of David / King of the Jews: Fabricated genealogies and titles absent from Marcion’s Evangelion, which opens directly with Jesus’ public ministry (no infancy narratives, no Luke 3:23–38 genealogy tracing Davidic descent). These were added to bind Christ to Yahweh’s failed covenant. The true Christ descended suddenly from the higher God. He rejected Davidic kingship, even as the canonical text shows: “My kingdom is not of this world” (John 18:36).

Circumcised / Purification ritual / Practiced Sabbath / Attended Passover: These are Judaizing insertions absent or opposed in Marcion’s canon. The true Jesus came to abolish the Law, not fulfill it (contra the forged Matthew 5:17, absent from the Evangelion). “The law and the prophets were until John… it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away, even as the law and the prophets have passed away, than one tittle of my words to fail.” (Evangelion, cf. Luke 16:16–17); Paul declares in the Apostolikon: “For as many as rely on works of the law are under a curse” (Galatians 3:10); “Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law” (Galatians 3:13); “Behold, I Paul say to you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will be of no advantage to you” (Galatians 5:2).

Taught in synagogues / Called Rabbi: Superficial accommodations and later corruptions in the received texts. Jesus was never referred to as “Rabbi” in the Evangelion. Jesus’ authentic teaching in the Evangelion exposed Yahweh’s Law as tyrannical and alien to the merciful good God—e.g., the radical reinterpretations in the canonical Sermon on the Mount: “You have heard that it was said [by the creator]… but I say to you…”

Spread the Torah: False. Christ brought an entirely new Gospel unknown to the prophets of Yahweh (Colossians 1:26 in Apostolikon: “the mystery hidden for ages and generations but now revealed to his saints”). He contrasted his Father with the OT creator repeatedly (“You have heard… but I say…”; parallels to Luke 9:54–56; John 8:44: “You are of your father the devil”). The Antitheses systematically catalogs these oppositions (Litwa, ch. 5, hypothetical reconstruction).

“Salvation is from the Jews”: A blatant interpolation absent from Marcion’s Evangelion: Salvation comes from the alien good God, not the Jews or their scriptures (BeDuhn, Introduction and ch. 1 on the clean break with Jewish tradition; Litwa, ch. 7 on Marcion, Judaism, and Jewish Scripture).

Affirms he’s Yahweh: Blasphemous later addition. The true Christ revealed a God unknown to Moses and the prophets. “I and the Father are one” refers to the higher Father, not Yahweh (Litwa, ch. 9 on the good God vs. the Evil Creator). A popular claim that Jesus is Yahweh hinges on John 8:58, where he says, “Before Abraham was [genesthai], I am [ego eimi].” Yet this declares his eternal existence, not his identity as Yahweh. The Greek ego eimi appears in everyday, non-divine contexts elsewhere: John 6:20 (“It is I”), John 9:9 (the blind man’s “I am he”), and Acts 26:29 (Paul). The present-tense “I am” simply contrasts with Abraham’s past “was” (genesthai) to highlight Jesus’ timeless being. The surrounding dialogue (John 8:53–58) centres on Jesus surpassing Abraham in precedence, not on claiming a divine name.

The historical Jesus—as recovered in Marcion’s **Evangelion **and Apostolikon—was no Jew. He was the emissary of the true, wholly good God who came to liberate humanity from Yahweh. The meme’s list is precisely the Judaizing corruption Marcion opposed in the 140s CE. The real Gospel—preserved in the First New Testament—frees us from all that.