Did Catholicism Give Us the Bible?

“Did Catholicism give us the Bible?” someone asked. No, Catholicism did not give us the Bible. The Old Testament portion of the Bible was completed before the first century. The New Testament portion of the Bible was completed around the close of the first century. The church that Jesus promised to build (Matthew 16:18) was established on the first Pentecost following the crucifixion, burial, resurrection and ascension of Jesus Christ in about A.D. 33.

However, the Catholic Church evolved over centuries from apostasy by early Christians and did not have a universally accepted pope to govern it for hundreds of years after Christianity began. The church Jesus promised to build and over which He alone is the Head began in Jerusalem about A.D. 33, whereas Boniface III unified and governed the Catholic Church in Rome in A.D. 607. Therefore, the Bible existed before the Catholic Church came into existence.