** However, let me know if you’d like to come to (or come back to) the Bible, **
Good grief, man. The Catholic Church gave YOU the Bible. The Protestants just dumped six books of it. That’s all.
No, the Catholic Church didn’t give me the Bible, God did, and He gave it to you as well.
The church did, under the inspiration of God, write the New Testament, as Jews, under the inspiration of God, wrote the Old Testament.
Selection of the “canonical” books was made from among competing writings later, by what you call the “Catholic Church,” and the Scripture copies were made and preserved in several families of texts, with none of the “autographs” currently known to exist.
I am thankful for the role of monks and others in copying the biblical text and helping preserve the Scriptures God gave through the Jews and the primitive church.
I am saddened by the attempts of Roman Catholicism to keep the word of God from the common man, which thankfully has been remedied by the heroic and sometimes martyred (by the Roman Catholic oganization) reformers.
You probably have the Protestants to thank for any/all Bibles you have in your home today for it is unlikely you would possess them absent the Protestant Reformation.