It amazes me that you who are so sure in the orthodoxy of your heresy can not answer a couple of simple questions that should be answered simply if your heresy is indeed orthodoxy.
“It amazes me that you who are so sure in the orthodoxy of your heresy can not answer a couple of simple questions that should be answered simply if your heresy is indeed orthodoxy.”
I’m sorry. I thought you were kidding with your questions.
“What did Christians believe in place sola scriptura prior to the Bible being put together in the fourth century?”
Christians believed what The Church taught them. Sola Scriptura as a method of belief didn’t arise until the 16th century in Middle Europe.
“Why do the Greeks not believe pentecostal/protestant translations of the original greek text, and actually have dogmas almost identical to “Latin” Catholic dogmas?”
I am not sure I understand the first part of your question. I can tell you that Greek speaking Christians use what’s called the Byzantine text which is the nearest thing any of us have to the original Greek text of the NT. It is, of course, in Greek. Arab and Slavic Christians have the NT in Arabic, Aramaic, Syriac and Slavonic, all of which are exact translations of the Greek original. Later Latin and then French, German, English etc. translations are, frankly, just awful. Now, as to why we have some many dogmas with the Latins, that’s because Rome and the particular Churches of the East all were one Church until the Great Schism. Our shared dogmas were established in 7 Ecumenical Councils and accepted by the entire People of God.
“Who compiled the books of the bible?”
The quick, easy answer is groups of old Greek speaking bishops meeting in local councils into the late 4th century. Now that said, those councils weren’t the final word, since Revelations, for example, was not accepted as part of the canon of the NT until the 9th century at the earliest.
“How do we know that each book of the Bible is inspired?”
The ONLY way we “know” that is because The Church has told us that the books of the canon of the NT were inspired by God. The fact of course is that we can’t “know” that at all, though we certainly can, and most members of The Church do, believe that.
“Did an angel drop it in a nicely wrapped package one day in England in the 1600’s?”
Not only did no angel drop that package in England, it wasn’t dropped in Greece either, though clearly Greeks are God’s other favorite and very troublesome kids...just like their spiritual cousins the Jews!