The Catholic Church (or at least it's FRoman Catholic adherents) claims to have written the Bible, and claims that the Catholic Church preceded the Bible. Why would the Catholic Church write for itself an "unclear" book capable of "so many interpretations"? Did they write it in code?
“Why would the Catholic Church write for itself an “unclear” book capable of “so many interpretations”?”
For the Church, on all essential points, it isn’t unclear.
There are not widely varying interpretations among Protestants.
The *wide* variation is far more between Catholicism and non-Catholic denominations.
The Catholic positions by taking partial verses, verses out of context, interpreting passages inconsistently (literal, figurative, back to literal all within the same sentence or discourse), etc.
Actually, the Catholic Church does not claim it “wrote” the Bible, but it DID compile the Bible, meaning that it used its authority as bound to Peter by Jesus, Himself, to reject certain books and accept others.