Along the same lines, providing the earliest evidence of a "real", protestant believing and practicing christian should prove to be quite the challenge too.

AFAIK all the early church fathers were either gnostics, heretics, unitarians, dualists, etc. Where were the real christians and therefore, who was really teaching about the true Jesus, his teachings, walking in his ways? What record do we have a really true Christian whose opinion of the holy scriptures is shared by true Protestant Christianity today?

Or can we assume no true christians outside of the NT canon existed until a much later time - and therefore beliefs about Jesus had to be discovered by people much later who somehow knew better than the 1st christian practitioners of the early 2nd century?

Thanks.

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