The early Christian Church was a chaos of contending beliefs.
Ehrman offers a fascinating look at these early forms of Christianity and shows how they came to be suppressed, ref.
Certain sects maintained that Jesus was human but not divine, while others said he was divine but not human.
In Lost Christianities, Bart D.
Some believed that the world had not been created by God but by a lesser, ignorant deity.
Some groups of Christians claimed that there was not one God but two or twelve or thirty.
The early Christian Church was a chaos of contending beliefs