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What if the Christianity we know today was only one version among many?

In the earliest centuries after Jesus, Christianity was not a single unified faith but a chaotic world of rival gospels, competing prophets, strange miracles, and wildly different visions of who Jesus actually was. Some saw him as a gentle healer. Others described a frightening child capable of striking people dead. Entire Christian communities followed texts that later vanished from the Bible altogether.

In this episode of Rearview Mirror Chronicles, Keith explores the lost Christianities buried beneath history, from forbidden gospels and miracle workers to Roman emperors, heresy hunters, and the brutal struggle over who controlled the story of Jesus. Along the way we encounter vanished churches, alternative versions of Mary, mysterious prophets like Apollonius of Tyana, and the extraordinary political machine that transformed one small sect into the dominant religion of the Western world.

Because history is rarely inevitable.

And if events had tilted only slightly differently, the Jesus worshipped by millions today might have looked utterly unrecognisable.

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