[count-your-change]

From a site called: www.cathtruth.com/catholicbible/‎ "As the author, the Catholic Church is the only proper authority to consult in matters pertaining to the Bible." (The Catholic Bible) i.e., It's ours, we wrote it, we'll explain while you interpret. History, archaeology, all scholarship, "matters pertaining to the Bible", all is meaningless unless in submission to the authority of the Catholic Church.

[metmom]

From a site called: www.cathtruth.com/catholicbible/‎ "As the author, the Catholic Church is the only proper authority to consult in matters pertaining to the Bible." (The Catholic Bible)

When I first encountered the argument from the Catholics that the Catholic church wrote the Bible, I figured that the only reason for them to claim to have written it was to try to put beyond all dispute their ownership of it and their claim to be the only ones to *properly* interpret it.

Problem is, some 2,000 years later, the people wrote it are dead and the ability to correctly interpret is not genetic. It was not and can not be passed on.

Only the Holy Spirit can properly interpret Scripture to the believer and since He is still around and hasn't changed, He is the only source of correct interpretation.