[Petrosius]

I think that the point is that Catholics are not in the habit of picking up a printed volume called the Bible. Rather, they hear the Scriptures regularly proclaimed in the liturgy. This was, indeed, the normal way that most Christians accessed the Scriptures for the 1500 years before the printing press made inexpensive Bibles available to everyone. Prior to that the idea the every Christian should privately study the Bible was absurd since it was impossible.

[ealgeone]

I think that the point is that Catholics are not in the habit of picking up a printed volume called the Bible. Rather, they hear the Scriptures regularly proclaimed in the liturgy. This was, indeed, the normal way that most Christians accessed the Scriptures for the 1500 years before the printing press made inexpensive Bibles available to everyone. Prior to that the idea the every Christian should privately study the Bible was absurd since it was impossible

I agree that catholics aren't in the habit of picking up the Bible and reading it. Sadly, a lot of Christians also fall into that group.

Amazing that we don't avail ourselves to the written word of God on a regular basis. I've been studying the Greek for about two years now and that takes the NT to a deeper level of understanding. It clears up a lot of the controversial things we debate about on FR.

It amazes me why more church leaders don't avail themselves of the Greek and Hebrew. We could learn so much more.

[Mr Rogers]

“This was, indeed, the normal way that most Christians accessed the Scriptures for the 1500 years before the printing press made inexpensive Bibles available to everyone. Prior to that the idea the every Christian should privately study the Bible was absurd since it was impossible.”

Odd, isn’t it, that the Jews of 30 AD were able to learn their scriptures 1500 years before the printing press made them available:

“When they arrived, they went into the synagogue of the Jews. These were more fair-minded than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness, and searched the Scriptures daily to find out whether these things were so.”

Indeed, before 1000 BC we find:

“And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.” - Dt 6