My views on objective morality

[Jenny A]

We believe HIS Church comes before HIS book.

But without the book, would there have ever been a church at all?

Yes, actually there might. There really wasn't a Bible when Paul was writing, and not for some time after that. But there were Christians. So Christianity predates the Bible. Actually, it predates the OT, which like the NT, existed as a few of many scriptures before being chosen as the official scriptures. Some of both the not officially chosen of Jewish and Christian scripture remain, others are lost.

The church was the last authority until it choose the Bible as the last authority. And in the case of some sects the church remained the last authority. Catholicism is one such sect.