All I see on here is so called Christians jumping up and down shouting Bible ,Bible, Bible, Bible, show me in the bible, nowhere in the Bible / NT is shown any such enthusiasm.
Where did Jesus give instructions that the Christian faith should be based exclusively on a Bible? (Which Bible eg, KJ, NIV, RSV etc)
Other than the specific command to John to pen the Revelation, where did Jesus tell His apostles to write anything down and compile it into an authoritative book?
Where in the New Testament do the apostles tell future generations that the Christian faith will be based solely on a bible?
Where in the Bible is God’s Word restricted only to what is written down?
Our Blessed Lord Jesus Himself so far we know never wrote anything not even one line of scripture, certainly non that have been preserved.
He never told the Apostles to write anything, He did not command them to commit to writing what He delivered to them, but He said, “Go ye and teach all nations”, Mat 28:19, “He that heareth you heareth Me” Luke 10:16.
What He commanded and meant them to do was precisely what He had done Himself – deliver the Word of God to the people by the living voice – convincing themselves face to face to living men and women not to entrust the message to a book, which might perish, be destroyed and be misunderstood, misinterpreted and corrupted.
The Church and the Faith existed before the Bible, that is simple elementary and fact which no one can deny or even denied.
The Bible did not just drop from heaven ready-made, it did not suddenly appear on earth carried down from Almighty God or by the hand of an angle, it was written by men like ourselves who held pen in their hands (or reeds) and ink and parchment, they were divinely inspired certainly, as no others have been before or since; nevertheless they were human beings chosen by God for the work, making use of instruments that lay to their hands at that time.
Thousands of people became Christians through the work of the Apostles and missionaries (Luke 10:1-16) of Christ in various lands, and believing the whole truth of God as we believe it now, before they ever saw or read, or could possibly see or read a single sentence of inspired Scripture of the New Testament, for the simple reason no such Scripture existed, same was as some of today becoming Christians by hearing the Gospels from missionaries.
The Apostles did not evangelise by handing copies of the New Testament, they never thought of writing the New Testament, and neither did they, The books were produced and called forth by special circumstance that arose, were written to meet particular demands and emergencies, nothing was further from the minds of the Apostles and Evangelist that the idea of composing works that should be collected and formed into one book to constitute the Holy Book for Christians, especially the Epistles to be tied up together and elevated into a position of a complete and exhaustive statement of doctrines of Christianity, to be placed in each man’s hands as an easy and infallible guide in faith and morals, independent of a living and teaching authority to interpret them.
The Apostles, when speaking, claim to speak with divine authority, but they nowhere profess to give in writing a system of Christian Doctrine
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