“Neat trick you guys play on a regular basis” — tsk, tsk... Christians will continue to believe that Christ is Lord, God and Savior — He was not just some prophet. Now go away wascool...
What this thread shows is that right from the beginning there were numerous Christian groups spread far and wide which had nothing to do with the Catholic religion...
And as can be seen by this thread, those groups were demonized by the Catholic religion thru out history and we are told by Catholic history of those groups’ heretical practices based upon, ‘anonymous sources’, and ‘some thought’, and ‘Eusebius heard about’, etc., etc...
Your religion’s claim to fame is that it was the one and only ‘Church’ from the beginning...As we can see, that’s not true at all...
And as can be seen by this thread, those heretical accusations against these churches is based not on fact, but anonymous accusations of people of your religion which opposed these churches to the point of burning their bibles and killing those who would not convert to your religion...
And true to form, you continue the practice by making false accusations against those you can not defend your religion against...
So carry on, it’s all you got...