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Yes and the early Christian church was no exception.

It is a little known fact that when Constantine made Christianity the state religion in the 4th century, the Christians turned around and started to persecute the Nestorians.

Until then, the Nestorians were a legitimate sect of Christianity believing that Jesus was totally human. This changed with the Council of Nicia where the Nician Creed was passed which states that Jesus is both totally human and totally divine.

The Nestorians were an Eastern sect and the persecution went on for centuries. Some scholars believe that they were eventually absorbed into the Muslim faith which believes Jesus is a prophet but not divine.

Many of us think of Christianity as a bush growing out of one central source. Scholars now tend to view Christianity as a hourglass with an early explosion of different forms of Christianity followed by a restriction and then expanding again with Protestantism.