Catholics claim there was no New Testament until the 4th century: How do they explain all the translations?

Question

Also, how do they explain the quotes in the early father?
How do they explain the spread and preservation of the New Testament books as a whole all over the Roman Empire and beyond it's borders?

Answer 1

I think what they are saying is that until Constantine's Council of Nicea 323-325AD and the first Christian doctrine it did not exist as a whole testament. This however does not mean that the separate books were not written or the word spread before then. There were many books and versions brought to the table, many were rejected.

Answer 2

If only you knew what you were talking about.
The New Testament is a compilation of scripture from various authors. Just as the old testament is. Both were compiled by scholars in the Catholic church. Why are there other translations? Protestants and heretical schisms from the one true Catholic church reworked the bible to suit themselves. The individual books, letters and scripture could certainly have been spread around before the Church assembled the bible, but what of it. It does not by any means discredit the authenticity of the Testaments as were formed by the early church.
You should go back to class professor. First try a logic class then redo your history.

Answer 3

the traditional catholic bible was assembled as a means of destroying the prophecies they collected from the future... the church collected prophecies and knowing which ones would weaken it's power put into the bible not the prophecy but how to destroy it.... the new testament is information coming from our time... the hippies, their messages of peace and love inspired the new testament... but as in the catholic tradition... these prophecies are returned through the bible with the recipe to destroy them and the movement.... brotherly love, peace on earth, freedom all these are messages of the hippie movement... from the violence the hippies met when they worked for peace you can see the result of the bible's work... the man spoken about in the prophecy of Jesus was born during this time... early 70's and we see what the bible has instore for him..... we can see through the changes in the old testament that the future does indeed have an effect on the past.... the one thing the church is weak against and consistently underestimates is the woman who inspired it all.. Known as Mother Nature... he affect is so great that it reaches to the foundations of the church... called "woman of the wilderness" in Revelations... to EVE in Genesis... the others end up dead... when booted out of the guarden of eden.. and lives 900 years or so... but it's an ongoing battle... when we support religion, we are murdering those who would change the world, and destroy their messages ...

Answer 4

+They'd be correct.

See, the "New Testament," is a COLLECTION of books.

Your logic says that an anthology exists as soon as an essay is written that could possibley be included in one. Which means that all possible anthologies exist at this moment.

Answer 5

Claims don't make truth. See the Theory of Evolution.

What they are probably, actually, talking about (just guessing) is the collected works of the New Testament -- not the individual epistles (letters) themselves.