Is there signifiance to when the Bible was fully authored

[PJM]

Dear friends in Christ;

Is there significance to when the Bible was fully authored?

God Bless you,

Patrick

 

[Neofight]

I’m not sure what you mean by “fully authored”.

If you mean does when the scriptures were written have any theological significance, to Catholics, the answer is yes.

Refer to the Catechism, paragraphs 109-119, paying particular attention to 110 and 116.

The “when” it was written is important if we are to understand the literal sense of scripture.

But, still, we need to know the spiritual sense transcends history and contains a message for us to this day.

Peace and all good!

 

[PaulfromIowa]

We do not really know the age of the Old Testament books. All of the New Testament books are believed to date to the First Century AD, when many who had known Christ and His Apostles were still living. They were thus primary documents of the Life of Christ and not later creations.

 

[fred_conty]

Dear friends in Christ;

Is there significance to when the Bible was fully authored?

God Bless you,

Patrick

I would say so from this idea … that there was a few years after Jesus died and rose and ascended that the N T had not yet been put together. So If I were a believer in salvation thru the bible, or if I only believe in a bible based church, then where does that leave all those who didn’t have the N T in those days?

But if one believes in the church that Jesus instituted to teach us all things, then salvation is not a problem without the N T.

 

[fred_conty]

And it is important when it was put together, the books that is, because if put together in the early centuries then the elimination of some of the defined bible books would not be right. This is actually what happened to some of the books in the 16th century. To the non-catholics these books are called apocryphal, meaning uninspired. However these books had always been in the bible and considered inspired until they were removed by non-catholics.

So yes it does make a difference when these books were included in the real authentic bible. Because then it can be seen thru history that the Christians accepted these books all along.