[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.

[lastchance]

I believe most reputable seminaries Protestant or Catholic do teach Biblical studies using Greek and Hebrew text.

[Petrosius]

Amazing that we don't avail ourselves to the written word of God on a regular basis.

I agree that studying the Scriptures is a good thing but we should not fall into the trap of thinking that being a Scripture scholar is the hallmark of a good Christian. Through the centuries, and even today, there are many illiterate people who are better Christians than either you or I. True Christianity did not start with the availability of inexpensive printed Bibles in the 16th century.

[what's up]

Church leaders are more into social issues than deep study of god’s word. But in the latter lies revival.