10. THE QUESTION WAS: For
the first 1,400 years after Christ, the vast majority of Christians did not own
Bibles. Why not?
(This is a fill-in-the-blank
question)
THE ANSWER IS .Christians did not have Bibles because .. Johann Gutenberg had not yet invented the printing press.
The invention came in the
mid-1400s, and the Catholic Church immediately began printing Bibles at a
furious pace.
Of course, the mass printing of
Bibles prior to the Reformation wouldnt have done much good anyway, since the
vast majority of the common people were illiterate. The common way to receive
the Word of God was at Mass through the preaching of the clergy of the Catholic
Church.
Web sites on the Bible
http://www.catholic-defense.com/bible.htm
http://matt1618.freeyellow.com/unity3.html
(Unwritten Tradition)
http://www.canapologetics.net/html/origin_of_the_church.html
(Origin of the Church & Bible)
One highly recommended book
on the subject is Where We Got the Bible by Henry G. Graham.
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