“Are you under the misconception that Rome wrote it?”
That was not the question I asked.
I asked specifically who put the bible together. You don’t seem to be understanding exactly what I am asking so I will spell it out.
The bible is a collection of books with many different authors, written at many different times throughout history.
As it is now, OT and NT together, who put all these books in one volume and published it? What was the name of this volume?
You say you are a sola scripturist. That you believe in the bible alone, so these should be simple questions.
You say you are a sola scripturist. That you believe in the bible alone, so these should be simple questions."
I did not say I was a "sola scripturist". I did not say I was not. But, you might want to tap the brakes a bit. You want to know who "put all these books in one volume and published it"? I would suspect that was Gutenberg, the inventor of the moveable type. Before that there was no such thing as "publishing". If you mean who identified the books that rightfully are called the Word of God, then I already answered the question. The Jews identified the books of the portion we call the Old Testament and the early Jewish believers identified the books of the portion we call the New Testament. You might have some kind of trouble accepting that as an answer, but re-read it...it is still true. Long before there was ever a Roman Catholic anything, these existed and were identified as the Word of God.