“I certainly disagree with your notion that Catholic scholars had anything to do with how the Bible came to be”.
The Catholic Church compiled the Bible. In the 4th century Saint Jerome made a standard revision of the Latin Manuscripts. This revision is called the Vulgate. From
the 4th century through the 15th, the Church preserved the Bible by laboriously hand copying the Vulgate. Holy monks, friars, and clergy did this for 1100 years! The Vulgate subsequently was universally accepted. In the 16th century it became the official translation of the Western Rite of the Catholic Church. It still is today.
Further, the first book ever printed was the Catholic
Gutenberg Bible of 1456. Historians have noted that the Catholic Church exhausted all reasonable means to spread the Gospel message. The Church is the true preserver and protector of the sacred word, by duplicating it, by preaching it, and by preserving it from the beginning.
None of the people who had anything to do with the Bible were protestants, who didn’t exist when the Bible was being compiled.
“the Catholic Church exhausted all reasonable means to spread the Gospel message”
Yeah they cared so much they burned people at the stake for daring to translate the Word into everyday languages people could understand.
“the Catholic Church exhausted all reasonable means to spread the Gospel message”
Yeah they cared so much they burned people at the stake for daring to translate the Word into everyday languages people could understand. They hated John Wycliffe so much they dug up his long dead bones and burned them at the Command of Pope Martin V. His ashes were thrown in a river.