Was your Bible handed out at Pentecost?
If not, who determined what books belonged in your collection of books, that you call the Bible?
Was this authority fallible or infallible?
Waiting for a catholic view of a non-antagonistic answer to an honest question.
Are non catholics going to hell? Are protestants evil?
The Holy Spirit directed men in the writing of the Bible.
What was recognized as Scripture was recognized as such before the RCC came into existence. The most the Catholic church can maybe take credit for is compiling it and giving it its stamp of approval, which is really meaningless. Anyone could have compiled it.
And lots of people give the Bible their stamp of approval. Even cults like Mormonism pay lip service to Scripture so what they say is meaningless.
Nobody but Catholics thinks that the Catholic church's opinion on anything is significant.
Was this authority fallible or infallible?
Well, the Holy Spirit who breathed out the Scripture was infallible. The Catholic church which gave it its stamp of approval has proved itself to be more than fallible on more occasions than Catholics care to admit.