This needs to be addressed... The Bible is like a Catholic family album and having people tell us that we don't know what's in it is like someone telling you that you don't know your aunt Harry from your uncle Louise. Of COURSE you know your own relatives and more importantly what they meant when they said X. To have someone, who has no business mucking around in the family album in the first place, come along and tell you that they understand your family better than you is EXTREMELY annoying. What should one expect, an invitation to the family reunion?
This really all goes back to my theory that the whole Jews/Samaritans mess is repeating itself in Catholics/Protestants, but that's another discussion entirely.
My children don't know chapter and verse of Sacred Scripture but they know Scripture, and they are a part of the Family that it is written to. Outsiders really don't know what they are talking about and it WOULD be laughable if it weren't so deadly an issue. When I was their ages I could rattle off chapter and verse well enough to spin heads (my father is a retired preacher) but as I look back I can say I didn't know squat about it. I knew johnny-come-lately Protestant interpretations of various verses and had the Protestant world view that backed that up. That's one of the reasons that when the time came for me to make my own choices I chose atheism... a place I would still be today were it not for God all but physically dragging me into the Catholic Church.
The tl;dr version is: It's our Book, go interpret something else.
You may be the exception. From discussions I've had with former catholics they readily admit what metmom has indicated regarding the Word.
To be fair, there are a fair number of Christians who do not know or handle the Word either. However, our discussion on this thread have been regarding catholics.
I've given several examples of catholic misapplication of the Word regarding Mary.
From what I've seen on this board some catholics aren't so up to speed on the CCC either.
To be clear on one thing though....the Bible is not YOUR book.
It is the Word of God and is open to ALL who wish to study and learn.
Dang!
In the old days you guys would just KILL folks for evening HAVING Your Book!