We have the Bible because SOMETHING HAPPENED that was worth writing down and defending and preserving and that SOMETHING was the Resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.

This launched Christianity and early Christians assembled a group of texts into one book called ‘the Bible’ hundreds of years after the Resurrection of Jesus. They pulled together writings about the eye witness accounts of Jesus and His resurrection and the launch of the early church. And, they gathered many letters written to the early churches as well. AND, because of their interest in Jesus and his heritage and how God brought Jesus into the world through the people of Israel, they also gathered up ancient Hebrew texts that we now call the Old Testament and added them to ‘The Bible.’

The first full assembly of the Bible into something similar to what we have today came after Constantine’s rise to power in Rome.