“People who try to separate the Bible from the Church which wrote it are the ones in the wrong.”
The Church did not write the Old Testament, and the Apostles or close associates wrote the New.
And if we’re talking about the time of Wycliffe, who was the Pope? There were several at the time, leading Wycliffe to joke that ‘we knew the Pope had cloven feet, but now he has a cloven head to go with it’!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Schism
You wrote:
“The Church did not write the Old Testament, and the Apostles or close associates wrote the New.”
No Christ-denying Jew attached the New Testament to the Old. It was only when Catholics composed the NT and attached it to the Old, naturally, that what we call the Bible came about.
“And if we’re talking about the time of Wycliffe, who was the Pope? There were several at the time, leading Wycliffe to joke that ‘we knew the Pope had cloven feet, but now he has a cloven head to go with it’!”
Who is the pope now? Benedict XVI. Yet there are more than a dozen other men claiming to be pope in the world today. We know who the pope is now, and we know who the pope was then. There were not three popes. There can’t be. There was only one at a time and we know exactly who they were and when they reigned as popes.