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The assembled "New Testament" started in about 300 ce. and was later discussed to settle differing opinions at the Council of Nicaea if memory serves me well about 25 years before Constantine died. The blessing or nod, so to speak, by Constantine put Christianity on a serious footing and the ability to grow exponentially.

Matthew, Mark, Luke and John were the big deal. The bible you find in the hotel room was from 1600. That is right, 1600 years after the birth of Christ.



The books were written within 100 of Christ's birth. They still find them around the middle east in clay jars every now and then. The First Council of Nicaea took texts that were already hundreds of years old and declared them as either in or out of their official Bible. The idea that the Council basically wrote the Bible was tossed out there by anti Christians at least a millennia later.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Council_of_Nicaea

We all like to think of ourselves as rugged individualists. But when push comes to shove most of us are sheep who do what we are told. Worst of all, a lot of us become unpaid agents of whoever is controlling the agenda by enforcing the current dogma on the few rugged individualists who actually exist.