Jesus as Divine Before the Gospels? Only One Early Group Rejected It

In recent years, some have argued that early Christianity was a fragmented movement, with multiple versions of Jesus emerging in the first century—from exalted divine figure to ordinary Jewish teacher. But what if the actual historical data tells a different story? In this episode, we’re not relying on confessional claims—we’re going straight to the earliest sources. What we find is that there weren’t dozens of early Christianities, but just a handful of identifiable divergences—and even those came after a unified proclamation of a divine Christ. Whether you’re a skeptic, historian, or just curious, this episode will test the claim that Christ's divinity was invented gradually—and show what the first-century evidence really says.