Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew - Bart D. Ehrman - Google Books

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The early Christian Church was a chaos of contending beliefs. Some groups of Christians claimed that there was not one God but two or twelve or thirty. Some believed that the world had not been created by God but by a lesser, ignorant deity. Certain sects…