What would the current state of Christianity be if...?

Question

at some time in history, all the existing bibles were destroyed in a fire or flood?

Answer 1

That's hard to say. So few have bothered to read that thing...

Answer 2

The same as it is now.

While not everyone agrees on how exactly the Bible came about, most agree that it was the Roman Emperor Constantine who ordered the first ever version of the text to be compiled from whatever bits and scraps of writings and information they had, as well as oral tradition. Many admit that those charged with the task cherry-picked the passages which would go into the book in an attempt to create one fluent work that would further the Emperor's politics.

After the completion of the project, copies of the book were very far and few between, as the printing press hadn't yet been invented, so each copy had to be painstakingly made by hand - which certainly means that the "original" had to have quickly been varied through poor reproduction and translation errors. In addition, the vast majority of the earth's populace were illiterate until after the invention of the printing press, largely because education was extraordinarily expensive and reading material was incredibly scarce and valuable. This meant that the majority of the world's Christians simply had to go by their priests' word as to what the Bible said, and what it meant.

Many, if not most, still take their priests' word for it. The majority of those who call themselves Christian never open the Bible. Those who do rarely read the whole work through, and even less come to their own understanding of the book, independent of the interpretations thrust on them by their churches.

So, if the Bible had been destroyed, I believe the Christian religion would be exactly the same. Another Emperor or King would simply have ordered the book rewritten.

Answer 3

Don't worry human intelligence will not be stopped by some silly floods or fires. they will write new ones and authentic enough that the mass would believe in it.

Answer 4

Christianity might not exist but Judism would've because Christianity came from Judism.

Answer 5

You really like "what if"s don't you?

Since the Bible is the living word of God, and God exists, I guess he would send a reprint to Gutenberg....

(some what if's are hard to answer....what if all the eggs in the world were magically turned into flowers and they took over the world.....?????)

Answer 6

There are people who have devoted themselves to memorizing every last word in the bible amongst themselves for the just the very reason. Christianity will survive as tenaciously as life it self.

Answer 7

Us 'hardcore' christians would get together and put the Bible back together from our collective memories. Word-for-word.

Answer 8

Which is worse? a thousand centuries of lies to create a bible or a single flood to flush it all away?

Answer 9

They would have replaced them with something equally as fictitious.


LMAO at Georgia Peach.

Answer 10

WE'D BE IN HELL NEEDING A DRANK OF ICE WATER''