How did we get the New Testament? It's messier than you think.

Here's something the history of the Bible doesn't get talked about honestly. You've probably heard the version where Constantine got a bunch of bishops in a room, picked his favorite books, and called it Scripture. Clean story. Wrong story. The real history of how the New Testament came together is messier, slower, and honestly? More compelling. It wasn't one meeting. It wasn't one man. It was communities of people, spread across centuries and continents, wrestling with which writings actually held authority for how they lived. In this episode I'm walking through how the 27 writings we call the New Testament actually emerged, why some letters made it and others didn't, and why that messy communal process is actually a reason to trust what we have, not doubt it.