What is "biblical Christianity"?

Catholicism is Bible Christianity par excellence.

Prior to the written gospels Christianity was based on the oral traditions. This Church still followed the teachings that would later be put down in written form. The early Church believed in the Real Presence, Purgatory, intercession of the saints, in short all the particularly Catholic doctrines.

A Christianity that takes seriously and as authoritative and inspired the whole and properly translated, studied and ethically applied One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Christian Bible,interpreted under grace by prayer through Oral Apostolic Tradition

by the authoritative OHC& A Church, using the tools of Reason/Natural Law and the tools of the varied sciences( archeology, linguistics,Hebraic and Greco-Roman cultural and anthropological studies)

Of course, all Christian (and even post or sub or beyond ) groups think that they are part of or even the only members of Biblical Christianity

Biblical Christians for the 1st generation (and beyond)did not have the written New testament in either part or whole and relied on the oral preaching and teaching of the Apostles and their successors

The Bible for the Apostles was the OT and they quoted the LXX Greek Alexandrian (" Catholic- Orthodox OT") the most and much of the Ot was still circulating as separate scrolls then

Some Biblical Christians emphasize particular texts ( interpreted by thier oral church traditions or leaders) and ignore others

Some Biblical Christian claim that only Bible Alone-Faith Alone Protestant Christians can be Biblical Christians but they actually are interpreting the Bible through the teachings and views and traditions of their own teachers and oral traditions and are not relying on the Bible Alone

Some people actually go by Bile Alone instead of Bible Alone as their rule of faith and treatment of others

If by "biblical Christianity" Protestants mean that the Bible is definitive and the only church established by Jesus has nothing to say, that's not biblical.

Notice my statement uses "biblical" in a different sense: That authentic Christianity is completely consistent with the biblical message. It is not imposed by modern culture in the sense that post-Christian churches are trying to impose Marxism, abortion, and homosexuality on the biblical text.

The Bible itself clearly teaches in Matt 16:18-19 that Jesus established his church and gave the church authority to bind and loose, promising to defend it against the gates of Hades. That's biblical Christianity.

Cheers,

Bruce

P.S. The Word of God is Jesus, not the Bible--see John 1.

As stated by others biblical Christianity is based on the bible as, God's word and authority. As you pointed out the bible came after Christianity...that is correct, sort of. The old testament was around long before Jesus came and started Christianity, although technically Christianity is a fulfillment of Judaism. Regardless, the gospels in the bible are an account of the life of Jesus which preceded the official start of Christianity, and the rest is the record of the teachings of the early church and apostles. So biblical Christianity is saying that we follow the bible, the teachings of Jesus, and those of his appointed apostles.

As far as the 73 books go, the Roman Catholic church added those books to the old testament around 1546, before that they weren't there. Furthermore the old testament is given to us from the Jews whose prophets wrote it. The Jews never recognized the books of the apocrypha as inspired by God. When the protestant church split from the catholic church they did not recognize those books as true scripture and so they are not included in the "protestant" bible.

Obviously you can't if you mean just taking the Bible and creating a religion from that. That is why Catholicism makes the most sense because we were here before the Bible was composed. However, since we did compose the Bible, you could say that we are Biblical Christianity :)

John 1:1 "In the beginning was the Word...". The OT is 2/3rds of the Bible which points to Jesus. God had His chosen people called the Jews. In the NT, we still have Jews, even Jesus was a Jew. They were called Christians afterwards. But the ones called Christians today are still Jews according to Paul in Galatians 6:14-16 israel of God(Jews and Gentiles)

1 Corinthians 10:18 israel of flesh(Jews)

Romans 9:6

Galatians 3:29

But biblical christianity is someone who follows the teachings of the Bible, which is why I'm a Seventh-Day Adventist

In acts. when they were first called christian, it says "they TAUGHT" and many became believers"

So it would appear then according to the bible that the mode of learning the revelation and the fullness thereof , that Jesus handed down to His Apostles (bishops) was in 'teaching it" not reading it in a book, that had not as yet been given to those writers Under the inspiration of the holy spirit, so pray tell, how about biblical christianity? If in acts. they were "taught" they how come protestants "teach" themselves by interpreting scripture for themselves? If that's how Christ intended to grow his church, he would of gotten total anarchy, every man for himself, a "do it yourself style of what Jesus meant"!!

This is the kind of Christian who fails to accept anything as true concerning faith, teaching, morals, Christian growth through the centuries, etc., unless it is specifically contain in the Bible and interpreted in their way of thinking.

Any one of thousands of different protestant denominations, all of whom practice "biblical christianity" and by which the Holy Spirit has allegedly led all of them to conclude different doctrinal practices.

Joh 14:6 Jesus said to him, I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life; no one comes to the Father but by Me.

All who believe in and trust in this Scripture and this Scripture are Christian

Joh 3:16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only-begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.