Good God
deity Marcionism single tradition · 1
The Good God was the higher deity sharply distinguished from the Demiurge according to Marcion. This deity was agathós (loving-kind) and identified as the true God of the New Testament. Christ was in reality the Son of the Good God, and true believers in Christ entered into the Good God's kingdom.
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“the Demiurge, who was to be sharply distinguished from the higher Good God. The former was díkaios, severely just, the latter agathós, or loving-kind; the former was the God of the Old Testament, the latter the true God of the New Testament”
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