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I do not agree that the Bible is the Living Word of God. Jesus is.

In beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God. Then the Word became flesh, not paper and ink.

O'really
Lo I come in the volume of the book(paper and ink), it is written of me to do thy will O God. Hebrew 10:7

You catholic really do not understand.

The bible is the living Word of God. For by the Bible which is the Word, we shapes or chisel out, the living image of God, which his Jesus, in our hearts and minds. And the more false doctrine or false ideal of him that we hold to, we twist that image into an idol. Which is what many catholic have done. Seeing that the catholic bible like the mormon bible has extra books that describe a different Jesus. Therefore a different image.

" Seeing that the catholic bible like the mormon bible has extra books that describe a different Jesus."

Oh, brother!

Um, you do know that the Essene canon (c. 200-50 BC), which is the same as the Alexandrian canon, used by the Catholic Church (c. 100 BC), predated the Palestinian canon (c. 100 AD), used by most Protestants by hundreds of years, right?

And think of this: Presuming that Jesus considered there to be a canon of what constituted scripture, would he refer to a canon which already existed, or one which did not yet exist?

Take your pick of canons:
1. Essene (includes deueterocanonicals), BC.
2. Pharisaic (includes Prophets and Moses, but not Scrolls, such as Proverbs, Job or Chronicles), BC.
3. Alexandrian (includes deueterocanonicals, but in Greek), BC
4. Saducees' (includes only the books of Moses), BC.
5. Masoretic-Palestinian (does not include deuterocanonicals), AD

O and there's this: the OT scripture quotations are closer to the Alexandrian canon than the Masoretic-Palestinian canon over 90% of the time.