Catholics never denied the Bible, although their Bible is not the same as the Protestant Bible, it shares a common corpus. What they did deny is that people reading it have the ability to decide the Church's views are not Biblical. Frankly I think they have the better of the argument, even though of course their claim of Apostolic Succession is based on some pretty thin evidence.
The reason they get the better of the argument is that I see most Protestants picking and choosing which verses they like, even though they claim they don't, and even lifting passages out of context to "prove" their point.
It's kind of like making a study designed to prove some point one already believes. If they approached the Bible to see what it really says, they would not be so glib, but then of course they would eventually have to abandon the Bible altogether for all purposes but literary fiction.
The reason they get the better of the argument is that I see most Protestants picking and choosing which verses they like, even though they claim they don't, and even lifting passages out of context to "prove" their point.
It's kind of like making a study designed to prove some point one already believes. If they approached the Bible to see what it really says, they would not be so glib, but then of course they would eventually have to abandon the Bible altogether for all purposes but literary fiction.
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