How the Bible Came to Be. The literal translation of the word Bible is BOOK. 
THE CATHOLIC CHURCH

Constantine was brilliant. Constantine was a ROMAN.
Surround and badly outnumbered this Roman General, his life and his reputation on the line, is gifted a vision: If you place the cross of the Christians before your army you will be victorious. Constantine did not place a cross in front of his army. He wanted insurance so he had his army alter their weapons and shields to carry the image of the cross as well as the cross, and he was indeed, victorious.
He became Emperor of Rome. He had a big problem. Rome WAS the world and he had groups of Christians scattered all over his possessions causing trouble everywhere. He sent for the leaders and gathered them. There was much disparity. He offered the job of leadership to the Catholics. He picked them because they had the same infra structure, the same political structure as Rome herself. They do to this day. He also knew he could establish control of ALL of the Christians by simply giving control to the Catholics. Now he had one group to talk to instead of the chaos represented by the disparity of beliefs, agendas and contradictions, which he had gathered.
The Catholic Church was the FIRST to sign on to the yoke of Rome: The same Romans who had hung Jesus Christ on his cross. 
The council began its task, thinning out the reference material, which of the words of Jesus should be kept and which destroyed, and which ignored? The goal of the council; to create a single book that would guide Christianity according to the yoke of the Catholic Church. 
The book of Mary and the book of Thomas were not included. Thomas was one of the six visited. After the resurrection he was visited by Jesus Christ and gifted the teachings he recorded. These teachings had much in common with the Hindu and the country of India. India has the oldest surviving religious tradition on Earth. The tradition for the most part eliminates the need for any sort of middleman between a man and God. 
A tradition of a man from the west arriving in India who sought out the leaders of the time and came to them enlightened. He knew what they were teaching and how they related to God. The tradition of this man survives in India to this day. 
The Catholics, knowing they would have no control of the Christians if they included these teachings as gifted by Jesus, DIRECTLY to Thomas, one of the 12, were not included in the book. They were suppressed. No word of this teaching was spoken until these books were rediscovered: (http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/nhl_thomas.htm) along with many other books including the book of Mary. The books were dated by the actual dates found on the book binding materials. 
The book was compiled and EVERYONE was on the same page as the Catholic Church. They all saw that if control was established there would be great treasure to be had. The Catholic Church received its thirty pieces of silver and 2000 years of this tradition came to be.  
Constantine recognized the book for what it was and recognized the Catholic Church as the leaders. Christianity was born. The Book was given a name; BIBLE, which translates to mean, BOOK.
In order for an individual to communicate with god it was REQUIRED that he go through the Priest. The priest under a similar yoke was REQUIRED to go through the POPE. The Pope was able to reign unchecked answering only to God. Who’s God: The God of Jesus? 
The tactic of fear was set firmly in place and the horrors of Hell and the rewards of Heaven came to be. The God worshiped by the Catholic Church offered everlasting life in exchange for a lifetime of work and toil from the individual who was REQUIRED to tithe to the church. Treasure came rolling in; Unbelievable volumes of treasure. The list of available sins grew and the more sins that were created the more treasure came in. Everybody wanted to get into heaven and avoid Hell. 
Hell offered choices without consequence. Enjoy the life given NOW; do as you please right down to the worst possible debauchery, the rape and use of innocent children by the priests who controlled the people on the front line of the Church. They had given up normal relations with women by direction and by the whim of the Pope. The pope needed control of his priests. The nunnery was established under the same rules, no contact with human men. Women needed to be controlled as well for they held the most important key to the men by their influence; the influence of sex. They were taught that if sex were withheld, men would do their bidding as they wished. The men complied. Everybody wanted to get into heaven and avoid hell. The priests and the nuns engaged in sexual activities anyway and the results, the babies created, were buried in the basements. This activity was contrary to the directives of the Pope so it was hidden. The Pope knowing all about it had firm control and both Priests and Nuns made sure they complied with his every whim in order to hide their terrible secret. Sex, for procreation only, was established. The fun and the joy and the ability of the one true God to be involved with the one, joined to become the two, as one, and then bring God into the union, forming the true trinity, was removed and replaced by guilt, shame and fear.
The book guided them all. The book carefully edited, left only the one message. Believe in God and love one another. The Pope established what this would mean and how it would be practiced. The Pope ruled an incredible mass of population, single handedly, and he gathered massive treasure, freely given and spent in any way chosen by the Pope and the Pope alone. The final decisions on any issue came to the Pope. The Pope became more powerful than any Roman emperor and wielded more treasure.
These values, the values clearly of the God Satan, (as presented by the church) destroyed Rome with the debauchery, the lack of any sort of values or moral behavior at all. The Pope and the Catholic Church survived and controlled. They had gifted the Romans precisely what they wished, choices without consequence. 
The popes having gained their position through a very careful selection process had a problem. He also received no answers to this problem though he spent much of his time praying to the counterpart of Satan in the attempt. 
If he revealed the truth, the Catholic Church would fall to the last stone and Chaos would reign among his flock. There would be no more treasure; no more control, and the shame of the church would be revealed to all of mankind. He decided to become inaccessible appearing only when required and displayed his incredible power, as theatre, only to return to his chamber and pray for forgiveness. No forgiveness was given. No amount of prayer would ever forgive the sins of the church. The pope knew the truth of sin. There was only one: to do a wrong thing, knowing it was wrong, and doing it anyway. He was well versed and well practiced in the art of sinning. He desperately prayed for an answer, for a way out, and he prayed for forgiveness to his God. No answer was forthcoming and no forgiveness granted.
Each pope faced this dilemma. Some tried to rectify the sin with good works and the spreading of the tradition however it spread the lie and it spread the sin of the Church with it and again no forgiveness was granted. Others knowing there was simply no way out wielded their power with an iron fist to spread the word and gather treasure. What else was there? Treasure meant power and power meant control and control was everything or the sins of the church would be exposed. Only such very personal power, wielded by a single man could hide the sin.
Priests were never permitted to know of the sins of the Church and access to the Pope was limited; especially to them. The Pope was the only man on earth who could grant absolution and he passed this power to his priests. A power based on nothing at all. Absolution is granted by God and God alone. The actual truth of absolution is that everyone is PERSONALLY responsible for every single act, word and thought. No absolution is EVER required if the wrong act is not committed in the first place. 
2000 years of the most horrible activities in the history of earth became NORMAL to the Church. Millions were killed and tortured and forced to proclaim their faith, not a faith in God, but a total willingness to obey the Pope and his priests. The book told them how. The book created by the Catholic Church: The amended book with hundreds of amendments, unspoken within the book itself but practiced by the priests under the complete control of the Pope. 
The Pope was always the responsible party. The pope prayed for forgiveness and a way out or he did not, perpetuated the lie or did nothing at all. No forgiveness has EVER been granted to a single Pope nor will there ever be for such forgiveness comes from God and God alone. No Pope has ever reached heaven spending an eternity, a very LONG eternity enjoying unimaginable horrors, constant tortures and pain beyond the point of death. Death holds no answer for this death is eternal and there is no relief: Payment for the sins of the individual and the perpetuation of the Sins of the Church. This is the reality that they created for themselves by their very belief and by their focused INTENTION. In an object/observer reality such as mankind has AGREED we live in, it is focused intention that creates reality. 
Jesus Christ: “I came to you with love in my heart for all of mankind, telling you of the great joy and the great understanding that has been gifted to me and that can be yours if you choose to simply believe in God and love your brother.” Jesus Christ never once said to be a “Christian”. He said “Be a CHRIST, like me”.
No one heard his message and those that did and made the effort were all killed. Peter crucified upside down at his own request died of frustration. Andrew, was gifted the Saint Andrews Cross in Russia. There are others and they all died horribly of frustration and despair of the lack of any tradition or any church that practiced the purity of the message Jesus brought to earth. John was beheaded on a whim. They had drawn lots these twelve and they scattered to the four directions to bring the word of Jesus to mankind. Thomas went to India established his own church and is buried there. His church survives. Thomas died at spear point for refusing to worship another man's idol.

The Catholic Church is a construct and their version of Heaven and hell is also no more than a construct. Because so many actually do believe in this point of view, those places, Heaven and Hell, actually do exist for every single person who does believe. This is NOT a belief in the God that Jesus presented at all. It is a belief in a myth created by the church.