No list of RCC Traditions???

[jmcrae]

I know it’s been said before but I’m gonna be redundant and ask again. When was the approximate date in history that Scripture was compiled into what we know today as the Bible?

405 AD. It was by the decree of Pope Innocent I, and it was St. Jerome who made the very first existing codex of the Bible.

(A “codex” is a single sheaf of papers enclosed in one set of covers; what we right now in our modern times would think of as “a Bible,” or “a book.” Prior to that time, the Bible was a set of 73 individual pieces of paper, rolled up into scrolls.)

 

[Blue_Serenity]

405 AD. It was by the decree of Pope Innocent I, and it was St. Jerome who made the very first existing codex of the Bible.

(A “codex” is a single sheaf of papers enclosed in one set of covers; what we right now in our modern times would think of as “a Bible,” or “a book.” Prior to that time, the Bible was a set of 73 individual pieces of paper, rolled up into scrolls.)

I thought it was around 390 AD?

 

[jmcrae]

I thought it was around 390 AD?

There were various Church Councils still debating the contents of the New Testament during the 390s, including Carthage and Hippo. The final ruling from the Pope was not until 405 AD.

 

[Evan]

I don’t think the ENTIRE bible could fit in one Codex. But a collection of Codices. Remember, the ‘paper’ was probably vellum or parchment, hand written.

Even the first time the Bible was printed by machine by Gutenburg it was two volumes.

 

[Milliardo]

Fact: you guys make an upside down cross.
Fact: an upside down cross is satanic

Where did I lie?

Fact: an upside down cross is Hollywood invention; Satanism has never used the upside down cross as its symbol. The symbols often used by Satanism is either an upside down pentagram or the baphomet (the upside down pentagram with a goat’s head superimposed on it). Seems like the fact about the upside down cross got mixed up with Hollywood there somewhere.

 

[jmcrae]

I don’t think the ENTIRE bible could fit in one Codex. But a collection of Codices. Remember, the ‘paper’ was probably vellum or parchment, hand written.

Even the first time the Bible was printed by machine by Gutenburg it was two volumes.

Good point.

But it was all in one box - and more importantly, all in one language; a language that could easily be read and understood by the literate people of the time. And we knew which books belonged in the box, and which ones didn’t.

 

[Blue_Serenity]

There were various Church Councils still debating the contents of the New Testament during the 390s, including Carthage and Hippo. The final ruling from the Pope was not until 405 AD.

Ok, thanks for letting me know.