From the Jews who had preserved them and they clearly taught of the coming of Jesus the messiah. They didn’t contain the apocrypha either.
>> The new Christian religion was taught by word of mouth for probably many years before there was an organized package of written material to teach from.<<
First of all, the “scriptures” that were referred to contained the prophesied coming of Jesus the Christ which were being “searched daily” to see if what Paul was teaching was correct. Second, those scriptures were rather well organized by that time obviously or they wouldn’t have been able to “search” them daily.
>> They weren't teaching from the Bible, you know, because there wasn't such a thing for a long, long time after Christ.<<
What difference does that make? It was obvious from the Old Testament writings that the Jews should have known that Jesus was the prophesied coming Messiah. Your contention of not having anything of the New Testament written available for “my estimate would be 100-200 years” denies what Peter said in 2 Peter 3:15 in around 65AD that the writings of Paul were already considered scripture. That meme of the early Christians not having access to scripture is in direct contradiction to what scripture teaches.
they still don't and it is 2,013 years later....that's who the early Catholics were dealing with.....we knew that the Messiah had been crucified, they didn't....