When was the first Christian Bible developed, including the Old Testament and the New Testament?

Question

By Christian Bible, I don't mean when was the first English Bilbe developed, but the very first Christian Bible as we know today. If possible, please provide citations.

Answer 1

The New Testament as we know it was created at the Conference of Nicea (hence the Nicene Code). When Constantine the Great declared Christianity to be the official religion of Rome, there was no standardized Bible, but many books which were used by different churches. Constantine ordered the bishops of the church to gather at Nicea to determine not only what books were to be included in the New Testament, but even the nature of Jesus himself. Before that, there were varying beliefs about his divinity. Some believed that he was God incarnate, some that he was the Son of God, and some that he was merely a great Rabbi, or teacher. Needless to say, there was a great deal of debate, not only in the meeting, but even spilling out into the streets. The books that were excluded are now referred to as the Apocrypha, which is referred to by Catholics more than Protestants. Other books have since surfaced, also, and some are what are referred to as the Gnostic texts. These include more personal views of Jesus, and some may be older than the books included in the Bible, most of which were written long after the apostles they were attributed to. In the Gnostic texts, more emphasis is placed on self-awareness as the path to heaven than belief in the teachings of the church--they believed that people were intended to look inside themselves to find the God within themselves.

Answer 2

The first Bibles were written in Greek between 300-150 B.C.E.

The New Testament was added between 100-500 A.C.E.