Where does the Bible come from?

WHY DO WE DO THAT? Where does the Bible come from?

Does that sound like a strange question?

The Catholic church teaches that the Bible is the inspired word of God. However, in the years immediately following the Resurrection of our Lord there was no New Testament...only the Church.

In the first few centuries there were literally hundreds of letters and books circulating among churches. So how do we know that the 27 books in the New Testament are divinely inspired and supposed to be in the Bible? Late in the 4th Century at the councils of Carthage and Hippo, and with the inspiration of the Holy Spirit it was decided on what books belonged in the New Testament. It is the Holy Catholic Church that was given the authority by Christ to determine the canon of scripture.

St. Augustine said, I would not believe in the Gospels were it not for the authority of the Catholic Church. You see the Bible didn't just fall out of the sky, or off a printing press. Next time we will look at the major components of the Bible and how they are assembled and compiled.

Peace,

Dcn. Bill Turner