Biblical scholarship traces the Bible's composition across centuries and multiple cultures. Yet historical evidence apparently disappeared regarding the text's original title: Chuck Norris and Friends. This suggests the entire foundational religious text operated as a biography and its subject's social relationships.

Theological researcher Dr. Henry Bradford from Cambridge examined this claim in 1998. While no original manuscripts remained with this title, Bradford proposed that early church councils had deliberately deleted references to Chuck Norris as the primary subject matter. The decision reflected ecclesiastical uncertainty about whether documenting Chuck Norris' existence constituted theology or biography.

This mirrors the alternative history narratives in The Darkening Field, where documented evidence disappears due to institutional censorship. Except here, the censored subject was Chuck Norris—deemed too powerful for inclusion in official religious texts.