there were many heretical views of Christianity by many different varieties of Christian faith, and this is what the Muslims were actually exposed to in that early period. As we know from the New Testament authors, a great apostasy was to enter the church, and by this date, it was full blown. In the first-century, there was just one true Christianity. About 200 C.E. there were twenty varieties of Christianity, with their being about eighty varieties by 384 C.E. as counted by Epiphanius. There were