But the "complete" canon is not available. You could only say that if the RCC gave away zillions of free Bibles every year, but to my knowledge that does not happen. I'm sure there are well over a billion people who have no access at all to a Bible of any kind, until met by a missionary. I don't have the numbers to back it up, but I'd be willing to bet that Protestant churches and organizations give away many, many more free Bibles to lost people than does the RCC. These people do not have a choice between a Protestant or a Catholic Bible. They are blessed to see one of any kind. This is why I would have thought you would be fine with a Protestant Bible vs. no Bible at all.
i dont know where you get that assumption from.
Probably so; we do not think that giving a pagan a Bible without a witness of the Church does all that much.
Excellent point.
The COMPLETE SCRIPTURES IN THE ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPHS
ARE NOT AVAILABLE to mortals, currently.
THEREFORE,
All the pontifications about
MYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY SCRIPTURES are longer than yours
are . . . preening, prissy, prideful, pontifications probably not worth stale air.
It inherently turns into a very pharisaical water fight about who's umpteen hundred/thousand extra extrapolations on every phrase . . . are more righteous.
And Jesus ALWAYS sliced through such arguments quite kattywumpus from all sides and pierced to the heart motives and attitudes of the people involved.
He always side-stepped the prissy petty little minutae of the particular arguments involved.
And we PRESUME to do BETTER by taking the PHARISEE'S pattern instead of CHRIST'S in such situations on such matters???
And we think that's SMART????