The key to the Reformation was breaking the control of the Catholic Church
and its central iron grip on regulation of doctrine. During this era, translating
the Bible into a common language, along with the invention of the printing
press, finally broke the spell of scriptural ignorance the Latin Vulgate had
cast over the non-Latin speaking congregants. A major thrust of the
Protestant Reformation was to allow individuals to interpret the Bible for
themselves and follow the dictates of their own conscience.
This freedom to read and interpret the Bible for one’s self is what sparked
the explosion of Christian denominations. What do we learn from this aside
from our cherished hope that humanity can and often does break free from
religious oppression? If you allow people to actually read the Bible, no one
will be able to agree on what it actually means! It is not a clear revelation in
any sense of the word.
God’s Poor Communication Skills
If the Bible is indeed god's inerrant inspired word, his unintelligible, stogy
publication leads to this undeniable fact: NO ONE can agree on what he
actually said or meant. One would think if the Bible was actually an
omniscient being’s personal biography providing everyone an opportunity to
know and worship him, then beliefs based on the Bible should converge.
Some still argue it is god’s inspired word and he simply wrote through the
style, language and vantage point of the human authors, in order to be
vague, so it would require faith to find the truth. If so, must we then
conclude he is a sadist who likes to play with our minds and delights in
deceiving us? According to his own (supposed) words he is quite proud of
the right path being very narrow and very difficult to find. He obviously
doesn't want very many to find it. (Matthew 7:14)
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