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With that kind of specious logic, it would be sufficient to write an algebra textbook, and just hand it to all the 9th-graders and tell them to go read it and learn algebra, and have absolutely no need for any instructors to teach algebra to those high-school students.
The Scriptures offer beautiful simplicity, and at the same time, deep spiritual profundity, and the Holy Spirit tells us in the Bible that some should be "teachers" (not just Bible-readers), as God says teachers are necessary (see St. Paul's letters to the Ephesians and the Corinthians).
The bible was written with language that any 1st year algebra student can understand...
The problem comes from not believing it...
A good analogy would be like an algebra teacher giving the students an algebra book and then claiming they should ignore what's in the book because 2+2 actually equals 9...And that you have to be a teacher to know that...
Sure, algebra teachers have to teach, what's in the book...Catholic teachers do not teach what's in the book...
The Scriptures offer beautiful simplicity, and at the same time, deep spiritual profundity, and the Holy Spirit tells us in the Bible that some should be "teachers" (not just Bible-readers), as God says teachers are necessary (see St. Paul's letters to the Ephesians and the Corinthians).
It's not correct the the Holy Spirit tells some that they SHOULD BE teachers.. The Holy Spirit gives some in the church the GIFT of teaching, which is not the same thing at all as telling believers that they cannot understand Scripture without teachers to *interpret* Scripture for them.
Yet, without the Holy Spirit, all the teachers in the world are not going to help someone understand the word of God.
Spiritual truths are spiritually discerned. The Holy Spirit is the one who gives men understanding, not other men.