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Who decided what is The Bible?
The Holy Fathers of the Church, guided by the Holy Spirit, decided which of the many scriptures at that time were inspired by God and which were not. The inspired script…ures became the books of the New Testament. Prior to the arrival of Jesus, and for many years after, there were only the Old Testament scriptures. The New Testament did not just appear out of thin air: it was a product of the Early Church. At the time when Jesus Christ established His Church in Jerusalem in 33 AD, there was no Bible. So for the first years of its existence, the Christian Church had no New Testament Scriptures at all, and for the first 500 years, there was no printed Bible as we have today. Most people at that time could not even read or write, and there was certainly no printing press. They would hear the Scriptures and hold the traditions they were taught (2 Thess 2:15). Christ says "blessed are those who hear the word of God and keep it" (Luke 11:28). So the Holy Scriptures that we know today came to us very slowly and over many decades and centuries from the oral tradition of the Orthodox Church. In fact, it was not until the Fourth Century that St Athanasios of Alexandria wrote his famous Easter Letter in the year 367 AD that identified and "canonized" the 27 books of the New Testament that we all still use to this day. (MORE)
