Could Christianity Survive Without the Bible?

Could Christianity survive without the Bible?

I think before we move on with the discussion, we should first make clear the meanings of the words we are discussing.

• Christianity is a Christian belief and practice.
• Survive is to remain alive or in existence.
• Bible is the sacred scriptures comprising the Old and the New Testament.

And base on this mutual understanding of the words, I will pursue my reasoning in areas as follow:

First is from the historical fact. We all know Christianity started in around A.D. 36 as recorded in the book of Acts 11:26. The disciples were called Christians first at Antioch. In the history class, we learned that the term outside the Bible was first used when Tacitus. As we read on the history, we see that Christians have been facing with tremendous persecution of some kind somewhere right from the first day at Antioch until this very moment I am writing this article. Yet, Christianity prospers throughout all these difficult years. Is Bible the source of the survival? recorded that Nero blamed the "Christians" for the Great Fire of Rome in AD 64

We will not go into length to discuss the Hebrew Torah or the Greek Pentateuchulgate of the Bible history. Bible etymologically means the papyrus roll and first printed in English by Coverdale in 1535. From the time the first papyrus roll Bible was scattered in 2^nd century Christian churches until Coverdale, history had witnessed that Bible never did play a major role in the survival of Christianity. When the Latin Vulgate was the main Bible edition used in the Catholic Church, Christians were not allowed to own or read Bible. The interpretation of the Bible was solely in the hand of the Church leaders. The Bible was never used as the sole authority of God's word. Church teaching was based on both the Bible and Church Traditions. or Latin V