Early Christianity was based largely on faith. It did not survive the creation of the Roman Catholic Church and the publication of the Vulgate Bible.
Losasha -- The Bible is no more the word of God than the Declaration of Independence is the word of King George the third. The Bible was created by order of Emperor Constantine, for the purpose of legitimizing the right of tyrants to rule over their superstitious subjects. After the Council of Nicaea (325), 145 early Christian Bishops, who weren't willing to buy into the new Holy Trinity and Mary's supposed perpetual virginity, were lured to a temple and mass murdered -- probably by Roman Centurions loyal to Constantine. Numerous church councils were held over a period of decades and the Bishops who collaborated with Constantine repeatedly voted to decide exactly what to include in or exclude from their new Bible. If you wish to understand the actual truth about the origins of Bible, you need to study Roman history -- from about 325 through 384, when the Vulgate Bible was finally completed. The Bible is political propaganda, written to stabilize the crumbling Roman Empire and it is impossible to discover the actual truth about the Bible by reading the Bible. The Vulgate Bible and the Roman Catholic Church are the greatest hoax ever devised by a brilliant politician and millions of fools still continue to fall for it. Saying that the Bible is "God's word" merely demonstrates that you've been thoroughly and completely duped by Constantine's brilliant scheme, exactly as countless millions before you have been.