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A very narrow and specific problem with this lack of a sense of history is that if one bases oneself on the Bible alone, one needs a copy of the Bible.

I suggest you read the sentence immediately following the one you quoted, which is:

However, prior to the printing press, Bibles had to be hand-copied.

I left gaps in the statement to let the reader come to the conclusion; however, I guess I will explain the full reasoning.

To base beliefs off the Bible Alone, one needs a copy of the Bible. How does one get a copy of the Bible? In the modern world you can go to Amazon and purchase one for $20 and have it delivered to your house. However, at the time of the Apostles, this option was not available. Instead, one must have a copy of scripture to hand copy from. My copy of the bible runs at 1000 printed pages. If I were to try and hand copy this, it would probably take me a couple of years to do. So acquiring a bible in the Apostolic era was a painstaking and expensive process. For example, Orthodox Jews require their Torah Scrolls to be very carefully hand-copied (not printed). It takes about a year to do this. The Torah comprises between 20 and 25% of my copy. Extrapolating from this, it would take a skilled and trained individual over 4 years to make a hand-copy of my Bible.

Now, you could get this down a bit by removing the scripture cross-references, the 1/8 of a page book title, a couple of translation notes, a few other notes.