Very, very few are that old!
It has been my argument from the very beginning, on this thread, that very few copies of scripture were available, before the Catholic Church acted to create the first, full Bible.
This is absolutely true! You say that “thousands” are available today?
Tell me how many of those individual works are older than AD 397.
Then tell me how many of those “thousands” of copies are duplicate scriptures, or writings of the same Book?
Were Christians who died before 397 destined to Hell, for not reading the “Bible” that did not exist, in complete form, prior to that date?
The vast majority of Christians, who died prior to 1500, NEVER read a page of the Bible, because:
1.) Many Christians could not read at all until, very recent times
2.) The Bible was not actually available as one official Book until 397 AD.
3.) Until the printing press, and the Gutenberg Bible of 1492 (Latin Vulgate) the Bible was a priceless work of art that the vast majority could not afford to own.
The Bible would not exist at all if not for the Catholic Church.
Every single scrap of ancient text, in existence today, is either now, or once was, the property of the Roman Catholic Church.
Regardless of your opinion of the correct translation, NO translation would ever have been possible without the protection granted to those documents, by the Roman Catholic Church.
Where do you come up with this nonsense from??? Just because they claim it and you believe it doesn't make it true...