[Kansas58]

There would be no Bible if not for the Catholic Church.
The Bible never states that all faith must come from the Bible.
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.
More have been saved by the “oral tradition” up to the time of the printing press, than by reading the Bible for themselves.

[Resolute Conservative]

A very few outside Church leaders read it until Guttenberg published it. What is your point?

[chesley]

For the first 300 years of the Christian Faith, there were very, very few people who had actually read all of Scripture.

Perhaps that's why God made it so simple to achieve salvation. Just accept Christ as Savior.

[redleghunter]

For the first 300 years of the Christian Faith, there were very, very few people who had actually read all of Scripture.

Do you think there were theologians in the 2nd century AD who had full access to the NT books, opined on them, sent letters on them and preached them?

[redleghunter]

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. More have been saved by the “oral tradition” up to the time of the printing press, than by reading the Bible for themselves.

A debatable (as we have debated in the past) premise, yet a valid one to discuss no less. You do well presenting the excuses for the ancient past. What excuse do we have since the printing press and literacy rates increased? We don't have excuses today at all.

[metmom]

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.

[IWONDR]

“There would be no Bible if not for the Catholic Church.”

please explain for those of us not familiar with this fact?