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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 maintained that Jesus... Read Full Overview

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 maintained that Jesus... Read Full Overview

This unique set combines two of Bart Ehrman's most popular works on the early Christian church--Lost Scriptures and Lost Christianities-- and gives readers a vivid picture of the range of beliefs that battled each other in the first centuries of the Christian era.