“There would be no Bible if not for the Catholic Church.”
please explain for those of us not familiar with this fact?
The Bible was not in writing from the first day it was spoken, at least not the New Testament other than Paul’s letters.
There was ONLY one Christian Church at the time of the First Bible, which was agreed to at the Council of Hippo I believe, in Northern Africa.
That was nearly 300 years into the Christian Era.
Catholic Monks and Scribes preserved the documents of the Church.
Even Martin Luther agrees on this point.
And, by the way, the King James Bible did translate directly from the Catholic Latin Vulgate for many of its Books. Luther did not obtain his entire text from the Orthodox, and neither did the King James translators.