Katrina Thralls-Christianity without Writing

If Christianity were to exist without a system of writing, it would look very different than it does today. The most obvious reason is the lack of a Bible. There could be some of the same Old or New Testament, but it would be held within people, trained to recite the stories of the Bible. This may shift the religion from having so many who follow the Bible as a strict, literal set of rules to having more who follow the stories as allegory used to show moral guidelines and the love of God. The Bible would probably no longer be the ultimate authority. Either there would be something like the Pope or a shaman, where you would have a religious leader to be the authority, or the individual would be the authority, accountable directly to God. Of course, there would also not be the incredible theological library to study the faith, which I think is a necessary part of human nature.