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• Archive: Lost Christianities - Christian Scriptures and the Battles over Authentication In the first centuries after Christ, there was no "official" New Testament.
• Instead, early Christians read and fervently followed a wide variety of Scriptures—many more than we have today.
• Hide Full Description Relying on these writings, Christians held beliefs that today would be considered bizarre.
• Some believed that there were two, 12, or as many as 30 gods.
• Some thought that a malicious deity, rather than the true God, created the world.