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Originally Posted by AB517  They writing a lot down actually, too much in fact, that is why the church had to sit down and weed out certain things, like Paul flying around Rome. They had to Make a “backbone” so to speak. The Roman Catholic Church also saw the importance of not letting the bible become more than it was intended to be. |
It's true they wrote a lot. But much of that content was redundant, or inspired by prior documents, or dealt with topical matters that became obsolete.
As for the Church "not letting the Bible become more than it was intended to be," to be perfectly honest, they did NOT really make a strong effort to codify the Bible, until the Reformation was underway, and the issue of what was "canon" scripture was forced upon the Church by reformers such as Martin Luther. Thus, the Church never made a conciliar declaration of canon until the
Council of Trent in the 16th century. Until then, the choice of canon had been merely one of acclamation, not decision, and selection of texts to use as inspiration for doctrine, was made on a case-by-case basis.