Cult Of Early Christianity

The earliest Christians of the first and second centuries can often be enigmatic and elusive. In popular media today, like the History Channel’s Bible Secrets Revealed or in bestselling novels like The Da Vinci Code, early Christians are often depicted as holding wildly divergent views of Jesus and reading and writing differing gospels and books that never made it into our modern New Testament. This perspective has been popularized by New Testament scholar and bestselling author Bart Ehrman, who wrote;

[O]ne of the competing groups in Christianity succeeded in overwhelming all others. This group gained more converts than its opponents and managed to relegate all its competitors to the margins. . . . This group became “orthodox” and once