(February 20, 2015 at 9:43 pm)Nestor Wrote: Well clearly by the time Christian writings come to light in the first century there is already a highly developed system of ideas relating to the Jesus Christ figure.
But quite possibly even more sectarian than it is today. The Roman church spent most of the Middle Ages stomping out what they called heretics. Arianism for example was quite popular with early christians. The Goths ruling Italy after the Roman Empire fell, were in their majority followers of Arian.