He absolutely IS telling all of us to read the scripture. Do you really think Christ does not want us to read scripture? I ask myself why anyone would want to erect such a wall between Christ and His children in the laity. The answer is clear. Men of the Church need power, so they make themselves gatekeepers to salvation/theosis. "Christ never said to read His word, trust US only".
FK: "We do believe that the Bible is free from any kind of error."
A cursory study of the Bible reveals that your belief is wrong. The Christian Bible has undergone massive and radical alterations in its ...
I meant the original drafts of the original completed works, sans any minor errors that have crept in due to translation, etc. I still think we have almost ALL of the substance of the original Bible and that all of its teachings are 100% correct.
If He did, it's not in Bible. But you will find a pageful of references about hearing and believing.
Take for instance
How then will they call on Him in whom they have not believed? How will they believe in Him whom they have not heard? And how will they hear without a preacher? -- Rom 10:14
or
He said to them, " Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?" And they said to him, "No, we have not even heard whether there is a Holy Spirit." -- Act 19:2
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and they were saying to the woman, "It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves and know that this One is indeed the Savior of the world." -- John 4:42
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Those beside the road are those who have heard; then the devil comes and takes away the word from their heart, so that they will not believe and be saved -- Luk 8:12
Men of the Church need power, so they make themselves gatekeepers to salvation/theosis
LOL!!! That's pathetic. You really have a thing about clergy. It reminds me of that move the "Sand Lot" and a "beast" that eats children fro breakfast. In fear, eyes are really big, FK. You need to make friends with a priest and discover how wrong you are about mopst of them.
Most people have no clue what they are reading when they read the Bible. It's like reading any technical book. You understand the words but not the concepts. I can't spend the night at Holiday Inn and pretend I am a lawyer!
Some legal concepts are 'logical' and "obvious," but others are based on precedents (in our case Concensus Patrum, Bible, Liturgy), that are not so clear-cut.
Anyway, Christ did preach to the Masses, but He preached the Old Testament. He read aloud from it in synagogues. But He never said to anyone "read the Bible." And He never said "write the Bible."