The Rise and Fall of the Bible: The Unexpected History of an Accidental Book

 In a lively journey from early Christianity to the present, this book explores how a box of handwritten scrolls became the Bible, and how the concept of ‘burning in the lake of fire, for eternity’, brought us the world’s largest, most profitable business, by far. Think Vatican…. 

Showing us how a single official text was created from the proliferation of different scripts, Timothy Beal traces its path as it became embraced as the word of God and the Book of books. Christianity thrived for centuries without any Bible—there was no official canon of scriptures, much less a book big enough to hold them all. Congregations used various collections of scrolls and codices. As the author reveals, there is no “original” Bible, no single source text behind the thousands of different editions on the market today. The farther we go back in the holy text’s history, the more versions we find, as the different sects fought for their special interests.

Contrary to MAGA beliefs, the Bible wasn’t written by Jesus, or his disciples, but is a compilation of oral histories, passed down over hundreds of years, fought over and written at the Council of Nicene, giving birth to the Catholic Church, the Pope, and tithing, as well as buying souls out of Purgatory to stay out of Hell, creating the largest business in the history of the world.

Nothing against spirituality, BUT, don’t confuse organized religion, who gives us the Catholic Church, and Donald Trump, with anything spiritual.