Quote From: tulseyjoeCan you prove that? After the Bible was officially complied as a collection of books in 397 AD, by the Eastern Orthodox people, there is no evidence that the churches even taught their parishoners to read from a Bible.
I know for a fact here in Oklahoma that as a general rule members of Roman Catholic Churches were told NOT to own a Bible, let alone read one. It was not until the 1970s before they approved of church members owning a Bible and reading it on their own.
Why were they told not to read the Bible? Because the RCC leaders were supposedly afraid that they would misinterpret what they read. And only an ordained minister in the RCC was allowed to interpret what they read in the Scriptures. Well, that meant that the Holy Spirit must not be involved with the church member's walk with the Lord or the fact that the RCC people were afraid that some church doctrines and traditions were NOT supported by what was written in the Bible.
And, also, Jesus, Himself, did not approve of spiritual leaders being called "Father" or by any other title.
One thing has been proven in this message board discussion about Wednesday's show, lots of people don't know when things are meant to be taken as literal and when some things are meant to be taken as figures of speech or metaphors by the Bibles authors. Jesus used parables, made up stories, a whole lot of times to teach a particular doctrine. They had truth in them; but, they were not actual literal events.
I would point you in the driction of Simon Greenleaf, who was the Royale Professor of evidence at Harvard. His students posed a question to him "Was Jesus the son of God". He open-mindedly searched and became a Christian, based on evidence. Remember, this guy was an expert in evidence.
