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Oh, where do we learn about them, what they said, what they did?
> the Bible doesn't tell us
Thank you for proving my point.
It was never meant to be a comprehensive theological work to explain salvation. In fact, if you read what the authors wrote, they were quite adamant that no book could contain such a thing, and that it was necessary for men to connect with God to obtain his words from his own mouth. There is no other way.
The Bible is just an anthology, a collection of writings, writings that have little or no connection to each other. Someone decided a long time ago (not as long as you think) to put them together and consider them exclusively sacred writing, despite the fact that the books in the Bible reference other books NOT in the Bible as sacred writings as well!
This decision was made arbitrarily, by people who had no business making such decisions. What's worse, ever since the apostles (of the first century) died, everyone somehow got it in their heads that God could no longer speak, as if he had become deaf or mute or something. This is clearly contrary to the text. The fact of the matter is that the first and second century "Christians" seemed to be pining for recognition by platonic scholars and so perverted the gospel to try and make it seem more appealing to the prevailing "science" of the day. And in so doing, they threw the baby out with the bathwater.
The key doctrine, if there is any such thing, in the Bible is that God speaks to man and man should pay attention when he does. God sends prophets. It is the jew and other Satan followers who kill those prophets and reject their message. Faithful followers of Christ receive prophets and listen to what they have to say, just like they have done since the time of Adam.