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“They got the calendar from us.”

From the article: “As far as we know, the AD system was developed by a monk named Dionysius Exiguus in Rome in 525, as an outcome of his work on calculating the date of Easter. It was especially at the time of Charlemagne (8th Century) that the AD dating system become widespread in Western Europe. However, the calculations as to the exact year of Christ’s birth were not perfect and today, by surveying history and the data of Scripture it now seems rather more certain that Christ was born closer to what we call today 3 – 6 BC.”

Sounds like you screwed the calendar up. Didn’t do all that well on the canon, either...

Last I checked, 2/3 of the Bible (the Old Testament) was written by Jews before Christ, and the other 1/3 by the Apostles after Christ--NONE of which are the organization of the Roman Catholic Church. Leadership of the Church universal was NOT based in Rome when the New Testament was authored, rather in Jerusalem (check Acts 15, that's in the New Testament). You might also note there, that James, not Peter, was the leading Apostle at that time (about AD 50).

As far as formally RECOGNIZING (and recognizing is very different than CREATING) the books we know as the New Testament, in the 3rd and 4th Century, yes Rome had a large part--but, the Orthodox (making up 4/5 of the Church then) were also the major part of the Church universal at that time--and the Bishop of Rome was not recognized as the supreme head of all the Church either.

It's the worst kind of revisionist history to claim the Roman Catholic Church created the Bible. It's analogous to saying the Supreme Court "created" the U.S. Constitution--when they are only supposed to recognize, and uphold it.