Many biased deniers clearly attack Christianity by attacking the Bible. But if someone gave up on Christianity because of something in the Bible or something about the Bible, they may have given up on Christianity unnecessarily. Even if someone is leaning towards the door and is about to leave Christianity because of something in the Bible or something about the Bible, they don’t have to leave.
And here’s why that is ~ Jesus’ most devout first century followers never owned a Bible, and never read the Bible ~ because there was no ‘the Bible’ to be had or read. But these same men and women turned the world upside down and they’re the reason that people worship Jesus today ~ and they never held ‘the Bible’ because there was no ‘the Bible’ until the fourth century.
So what happened...? What did they believe...? What did they know...? Why is it that people are so quick to (and so easily persuaded to) walk away from faith because of a book that didn’t even exist when Christianity first began...?
What served as the foundation of faith for the first century ekklesia of Jesus…? It makes sense that we should take the cues about the foundation of Christianity from those who were closest to the action ~ the first century, first followers of Jesus.
The foundation of Christianity is not a book ~ it is an event that took place on a hill outside the walls of Jerusalem. The Bible did not create Christianity. The Christians eventually created the Bible.
