If the bible was written over centuries, were the christians who lived while it was worked on missing out?

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On all kinds of important information?

Wouldn't a god want ALL his followers to have his whole message from the get-go? Some guy told me on another question that it took 1600 years to write the bible. I don't know if that is fact but that is one heck of a lot of christians who missed out.

Answer 1

Yeah, but that's all part of God's Plan.

He's up there, planning.

Plotting, really.

Answer 2

No complete Bible for Christians (the ones who accepted Christ as savior in the first centuries AD) not being available is not an excuss for not reading what God left for the righteous. There was the Scriptures (the Old testament) which did a good enough job to point to Christ. But, after the New Testament was written, it became part of the required readings for a Christian, along with the Old Testament (or covenent). While the whole Bible (66 books) were in the process of being grouped together during the first few centuries AD, Christians relied on the left copies of the writings of the Apostles, as well as the Old Testament.

Answer 3

No. The Christians of the early Church had access to the fullness of truth through the teaching of the Church, just as Christians do today. The Church was preaching everything that is in the New Testament before a word of it was put into writing, and centuries before the Bible was finally compiled. This is precisely why the Protestant doctrine of sola scriptura is false. The early Church taught everything a Christian needs to be saved, long before anyone had Bibles. The Church came first. The Christian Church - the real one, founded by Jesus Christ - did not get its teachings from the Bible. The writers of the Bible got their teachings from the Church. If the Bible had never been compiled, in fact if the New Testament texts never existed, Christ's Church, the Holy Catholic Church, would still be teaching the fullness of Christian truth today, exactly as it is doing; and Christianity would still be united as Christ wanted it to be, because the doctrinal chaos of Protestantism could not exist without a Bible to misinterpret and argue about.
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Answer 4

Well, before the invention of the printing press in the Renaissance, well after jesus death, creating a single copy of the bible would take an entire year. :( ..it would sure take a hell of a long time to get those things flowing around...and then you have to consider that almost none of your average peasants could read, yet alone read latin the language in which almost all books were written at the period.

The bible was translated, changed, added to all the way up to the 1800's also. Leaving room for translation mistakes, the thoughts and idealogical beliefs of the emperors and kings who's scribes translated, and fulfilled prophecies..*er erm*. Where the original New Testament comes from...I'd say Somewhere in the Eastern Roman Empire around the 1st century. As for one old one..good luck finding that out.

Answer 5

The Christians are in the New Testament which was written about 30 to 40 years after the Resurrection of Christ.
The Old Testament is the story of the Jews. It was written over a course of hundreds of years.
The Bible was written on scrolls. The printing press and books were not invented when the Bible was first written.

Answer 6

Ever hear of Oral Tradition? There were people dedicated to memorizing the Bible and then accurately transcribed it. Adam was given 1 commandment to follow, Moses was given 10 commandments for the people to follow, plus the Levitical Law for priests and Jesus added only one to the original 10, to Love one another, found in John 13:34-35 and in Matthew 12:40-41! Pretty Simple and aside from that Read Matthew Chapters 27-28. That should blow your hair back! Jesus preached to the Old Testament Saints and they came out of the graves!

Answer 7

God does not judge people until they have heard about Jesus and what he did for them. That is why the command was given that Christians tell all the world. Jesus said that this must be accomplished before he will return again. And a little FYI here for you. Christianity is now spoken of almost world wide...from the jungles of Africa to the outback of Australia, from the far reaches of the arctic to even the still communist countries in Asia. It won't be long before Jesus command will be fulfilled.

People who have not heard the news of Jesus will not be held accountable should they die any more than a child would be held accountable if they die before understanding what Jesus did. Only those who have heard the word and have rejected it will be punished eventually.

Answer 8

All people will have the chance to except the word of God and choose to follow him or not. However most will be on the other side of this of life we go through and will hear it preached in the after life. That space of time between the death and Resurrection. It is the Resurrection and Judgment when every knee will bend and every tongue will confess of the savior Jesus Christ.

Answer 9

The Emperor Constantine and the Council needed a e book that proved itself. All different writings have been forged off. Constantine replaced into going to make Christianity the "state faith" so he needed writings that proved Christianity. alongside with the Bible, he despatched his mom into the Holy Land and he or she prevalent(stumbled on) the Holy sites such because of the fact the Church of the Holy Sepulcher and the Church of the Nativity

Answer 10

That is not entirely true.
The Old Testament had been compiled for years before the early Chrisitan church.The New Testment books were written extremely close to the time of Jesus,they were not written over 1600 years.Whoever told you that is ignorant of history.

Answer 11

Well, the last guy to pen our biblical text(N.T.) was John the revelator. And he hung out with Jesus. I must admit, I am not certain of his age at death(the only Disciple not martyred) but is was not too many years after the Crucifixion.

Now, the maps after the book of Revelation, is a different story. Admittedly were inserted much later..and many Christians have missed out.........