“I hate it when Protestants claim we don’t know scripture and that we’re not “allowed” to have Bibles.”
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“No one may possess the books of the Old and New Testaments, and if anyone possesses them he must turn them over to the local bishop within eight days, so that they may be burned”
- Council of Toulouse/Council of Tarragona
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_Toulouse
That’s because their interpretations of Scripture were Toulouse
“Council of Toulouse/Council of Tarragona”
And?
A regional council trying to suppress the use of vernacular translations by Albigensian and Waldensian heretics is not a general ban on scriptures for all Christians throughout the Church.
When the Calvinists burned Servetus and his books did that means all Protestants weren’t allowed to own Servetus’ books?
When Protestants burned Cluny in the 1560s - one of the greatest monasteries in the world - which was filled with tens of thousands of manuscripts in its library, did that mean all Protestants weren’t allowed to have books?
How about when Protestants burned the monastic library in Utrecht in 1566? When they piled up the art treasures and vestments in the streets and put them to the torch, along with the entire Franciscan library, did that mean Protestants couldn’t have books or vestments?