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>Luke was stolen by the Stoic Marcionites whose Docetic theology taught that Jesus came down from heaven unborn, and John was stolen by the Plato-loving Valentinians who identified Jesus with the Logos. As it turns out, Mark does portray an Adoptionist theology of Jesus receiving the Holy Spirit first at baptism. Matthew is the sole gospel that makes the Ebionite argument that the Jewish Laws of Moses were still in effect. Luke does portray Jesus as a Docetic phantom who can walk through people. And John is the only gospel to speak of the Logos. So it appears that Irenaeus' Apostolic Church stole and edited the heretical gospels originally written by the four sects he named so that they could lay claim to their traditions. Instead of going the usual route of combining gospels to get a full "historical" picture, Irenaeus instead kept the four gospels apart so that each one could best appeal to the various sects. Each of the four leaders of the heretical sects were likewise “converted” over to the Roman Apostolic Church to maximize the church's maximum advertising potential

>The evangelist Mark was made into a student of Peter. Peter was paired with John. James the Just was turned into a friend and ally of Paul

>Paul was aligned with the Johannine Church in Ephesus. Early bishops such as Clement of Rome and Ignatius of Antioch were linked to the Presbyters of Ephesus and Smyrna through apocryphal epistles ascribed to them. And finally, Irenaeus connected himself personally to John through Papias, and most importantly, Polycarp. By adopting these early teachers, Irenaeus was able to convince the Adoptionists, Jewish Ebionites, Docetic Marcionites and Gnostic Valentinians that it was the heretical sects who had moved away from the theology of their respective founders. Irenaeus instead introduced a theology that harmonized all of these contentious leaders in a way similar to how some people today