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To: Kansas58
For the first 300 years of the Christian Faith, there were very, very few people who had actually read all of Scripture. Scripture was rare, it was fragile, it was priceless and it was hard to reproduce. Illiteracy rates were very high until recent times.

Prove it.

67 posted on 02/26/2014 3:08:46 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith....)
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To: metmom
No, you prove otherwise.
You are damning people to hell who do not follow “solo Scriptura” are you not?
YOU are the person who is bearing false witness and the burden is on YOU!
There was NO bound edition of the Bible which included all the Old Testament and New Testament Books for the first 300 years. This is accepted Church history.
It was very expensive, and very time consuming, to copy scripture, and such methods were crude, and done by hand, and the product itself was fragile, heavy, hard to transport and did not last very long.
The illiteracy rate was VERY high in Biblical times and even until after the printing press was invented.
So, you are dealing with written material that was hard to reproduce, and you are dealing with a population which had no immediate financial gain from learning how to read, and left such matters to “scribes” and ministers and Priests. Most early Christians NEVER read all of the Scriptures themselves. They either could not read, or they could not obtain a complete set of the Books.
91 posted on 02/26/2014 5:06:29 PM PST by Kansas58
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