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To: Iscool

What did the Christians do for the first 300 plus years of The Church? There wasn't a canonized Bible yet, you realize that?


72 posted on 03/04/2007 9:33:54 AM PST by StAthanasiustheGreat (Vocatus Atque Non Vocatus Deus Aderit)
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To: StAthanasiustheGreat
What did the Christians do for the first 300 plus years of The Church? There wasn't a canonized Bible yet, you realize that?

As Paul travelled, he left behind his writings...I suspect folks were copying them as fast as they could...

300 years is a long, long time...I suspect there were many copies of the writings of all the Apostles in that 300 years...

110 posted on 03/04/2007 9:59:50 AM PST by Iscool (There will be NO peace on earth, NOR good will toward men UNTIL there is Glory to God in the Highest)
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To: StAthanasiustheGreat
What did the Christians do for the first 300 plus years of The Church? There wasn't a canonized Bible yet, you realize that?

My goodness --- Ignatius and Irenaeus and Tertullian and Athanasius and all the church had the scriptures. And the Roman emperors were burning bibles long before the RCC was ever organized.

113 posted on 03/04/2007 10:03:47 AM PST by Uncle Chip (TRUTH : Ignore it. Deride it. Allegorize it. Interpret it. But you can't ESCAPE it.)
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To: StAthanasiustheGreat

well, some groups think that Christianity was only practised after the 16th century while the Mormons believe that it was in the 1840s


1,614 posted on 03/10/2007 9:25:56 AM PST by Cronos ("Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant" - Omar Ahmed, CAIR)
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