The first Christians did fine without the Bible. You just need Christ.
A bit simplistic and not at all logical: many of the first Christians were also Jews and as such, they had..........The Tenach which included all the 5 books of the Law (the 5 books of Moses), the Prophets, major and minor and the writings.
They were taught from early childhood as The Law proscribes so they were not ignorant of God. Even the Greeks who lived around the Jewish communities, knew some of the Jewish writings and many also attended the synagogue.
Waiting for the "New Testament" didn't take long for Mark wrote the story of Christ 30 years after his death, as Mark was a young teen when Christ died, so the learned believe.
The Bible is God's auto-biography and if one want's to know God, to know about God, reading God's inspired auto-biography would be paramount.
Good point.
Well, that’s not necessarily true...the Jews had the Torah and Jesus even read from the Torah...the apostles quoted from it, and the scrolls etc. from which they wrote on. So the scriptures were used then.
I love the scriptures, though I do study and read other works, the scriptures are the source I validate or not what I read when there is a question of truth or meaning.
I believe God wants us to know truth and we may have to wait for that to be revealed, sometimes requiring study and searching, but scripture for me is the final authority.