Early Christians had no bibles. But they had prayer, and a personal relationwhip with their Creator. The bible helps, but it is not a requirement.
Actually, during the time of the disciples they did have the Greek Old Testament (the “Septuagint”), and Liturgies which preserved the heart of the gospel. In fact, many surmise that the difficulty in the flow of the timeline of the gospel of St John stems from the supposed fact that the gospel of pastiche of older passages used in liturgies, finally written as a single work as St. John felt his death was becoming imminent.
“Early Christians had no bibles. But they had prayer, and a personal relationwhip with their Creator. The bible helps, but it is not a requirement.”
The first Christians had the Hebrew Scriptures, the Apostles teaching them, and the circulating letters and writings of the Apostles. What they didn’t have was everything collected, printed in nice fonts, bound and distributed at a reasonable price.