How did the Bible come to be Catholic?
The Church received its sacred writings from the apostles, and the Catholic Church manifests the true canon of Scripture by its continuous use of certain books as sacred Scripture in its liturgies. The Bible, therefore, is really a Catholic book in that it came from the very heart of the Catholic Church.
Was it the Catholic Church that compiled the Bible?
The Catholic Church compiled the New Testament. And it chose to adopt the Septuagint version of the Old Testament as part of the Christian canon of Scripture, but both Masoretic and Septuagint versions had already been compiled.
Who put together the New Testament of the Bible?
Paul the Apostle
Traditionally, 13 of the 27 books of the New Testament were attributed to Paul the Apostle, who famously converted to Christianity after meeting Jesus on the road to Damascus and wrote a series of letters that helped spread the faith throughout the Mediterranean world.
Who put the Bible together?
But let me give you the short version. There is obviously no single person who put the Bible together. Some people have suggested that Constantine put the New Testament together. Anyone making this claim is either very ignorant of the evidence or is willfully deceiving.
Who compiled the Bible in the Bible?
The Bible was compiled by Pope St. Damasus I at the Council of Rome in A.D. 380 and the Council of Carthage in A.D. 392.
Why do we put the church before the Bible?
We must be careful to avoid this by explaining that we put the Church before the Bible because the Church existed first and wrote and compiled the Bible. The authority of the Bible depends on that of the Church. Then we use the Bible to prove the Church; we use it not as an inspired volume, but merely as a historical document.
Who decided which books in the Bible had apostolic authority?
We know this both from lists mentioned by writers such as Irenaeus, and from the books which were quoted by early church leaders as having authority. So, as you see, there was no single person responsible for deciding which books had apostolic authority.