Odd that that is the common belief of the Roman Catholic and it IS said frequently enough and believed among most of you, yet you have also quoted from one of your Popes (Leo XIII) that God is recognized as the author of Scripture:
"And the Church holds them as sacred and canonical, not because, having been composed by human industry, they were afterwards approved by her authority; nor only because they contain revelation without error; but because, having been written under the inspiration of the Holy Ghost, they have God for their author." Leo XIII on the inerrancy of scripture (from Providentissimus Deus) [ecum.]
I think it would be more fitting to also acknowledge that since we believe God himself is the author of Scripture and that it is inerrant, then we should, too, accept that God is the one who has preserved it so that even today, thousands of years later, it is just as relevant, true, sacred, inerrant and our sole source for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly equipped for all good works. Why try to steal God's glory?
You know, the RCC claiming credit and responsibility for Scripture does a couple things.
First off, it really destroys it’s divine inspriation. It then becomes a book written by men who later take responsibility for it.
And if that’s the case, then it makes it easier for tradition to trump it because since the RCC takes responsibility for both, it gives it the power to decide which one is more authoritative.
The argument that the RCC wrote the Bible because the men who wrote it were Catholics is without merit. For the Catholic church to posthumously claim that the writers of Scripture to be Catholic, when that was never acknowledged by the writers themselves, therefore it wrote the Bible, is disingenuous on their part.
Anyone can make any kind of claim they want and it doesn’t make it true.
There’s no where in the Bible where writers make any claim to Catholicism or even unity under one leader. The early church was a very loose association of local congregations scattered across Asia. The world *catholic* never shows up in Scripture.
Catholicism claiming that the writers of the Bible were Catholic sounds too much like the Mormon’s who go back through their family lines to have their dead ancestors baptized.
God preserved the Bible intact in spite of the Catholic church, not because of it.
Who does that? The Church wrote what was dictated. She then gave it to you. She could have written what she wished to write, and told you that it's from God, and you would be o wiser. So you still have to put your trust in the Church when you believe the scripture.