Nope...People like John the Baptist and Jesus were preaching the New Testament long before the church was even mentioned by Jesus...
Ahhh, it’s just a tactic for the Catholic church to justify control of Scripture and anyone who believes it.
The thinking being that if they can claim to be the authors of the Bible, then anyone who believes it and recognizes the authority of the Bible must of necessity believe and recognize the authority of the RCC, which allegedly gave the world the Bible.
Wishful thinking on their part but it just isn’t so. The Catholic church can’t claim that Scripture gives it its authority if it also claims that it gave the world Scripture. The only way the Catholic church could claim Scripture gives it its authority is if Scripture is outside the purview of the church, standing alone as its own authority. THEN is can impart authority to something or someone else.
But for the RCC to claim that it wrote the Bible and then claim that the Bible it wrote gives it its authority is pulling itself up by its boot straps. It’s nothing more than an exceedingly transparent attempt at a power grab.