[Iscool]

Even when there was a Canonized Bible it was read in the Catholic Church because Scripture was never given to individuals. Did God hand out scrolls to everyone? No, God gave His Word to particular men and women, who shared it with the community at large. This was written down and shared with the future communities. The Bible is NOT EVER shown as something given to each individual of the community. If you want to follow how the early Church did things, then you ARE to comply with the leaders of the community.

That is (more) complete nonsense...

The Levites were chosen by God to be the copiers and caretakers of the OT scriptures...(That's one of the reasons why your mythical Septuagint is just that...It was NOT written by Levites...)

The NT was written on very fragile material but yet, 2000 years later, there are thousands upon thousands of manuscripts, whole and in part that survived...And these are the vast majority of manuscripts extant that agree with each other over 95% of the time...And they don't belong to your church...

History shows that your church has destroyed these manuscripts whenever it could get it's hands on them...

No, God gave His Word to particular men and women, who shared it with the community at large.

You're making this up...

[stfassisi]

Dear brother ,you ought to spend your time doing something other than guessing at Christian history.

Pray for an hour each day....you will find more truth in that rather than posting here on free republic and believing God is leading you to lie about history.

I have told you many,many times not to post me again