The Bible is a collection of writings. The early followers of Christ had all the writings that had been passed down from generation to generation. They had been kept by the Jews.
They had far more than what we call the Bible today.
Those who created the church of rome discarded all but the few we have today.
They had a lot of oral tradition. Nothing was written down until the apostles starting dying off in the years, 80 or 90.
“...the church of Rome discarded all but the few we have today.”
What on earth are you talking about? Usually around here, we Catholics are accused of having too many OT books as it is; now you’re saying we threw (presumably) many out? Or are you saying that there should be more NT books than there are? If so, then please name the ones you think should be added to the canon of Scripture, along with your reasons why they should be canonical.
You clearly demonstrate no knowledge of how or when the canon of Scripture came to be. It did not simply fall out of the sky ready-made, nor was it determined at some date after October 31, 1517. And the 1st Century Christians, the discussion of whom prompted your response I’m citing here, certainly had *no* compilation of Scripture along the lines of the New Testament we have today. Many were dead before even half of it was written, and , in any event, none of them would have had, in the 1st Century, anything like all 27 books. It took a *long* time in those days to print and disseminate anything for common use by all; most Christian communities had maybe a Gospel and a few Pauline letters, and this would be after the 60’s AD. They would have had even less or nothing at all of the NT earlier than that. Though, certainly, all of the NT had been written by the end of the 1st Century, it wasn’t until well into the 2nd Century that *most* of the NT would likely be in the hands of a given Christian community, and the exact number and roll of the 27 books involved would vary considerably. The canon wasn’t finally a settled matter until the turn of the 5th Century.