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Sola Scripture...Catholics are told they can't understand the bible on their own...You guys need your church to interpret it for you...

Precisely. Men shouldn't trust their own wisdom, but trust the authority that was founded to teach and guard the truth.

Your church certainly took away any incentive for you to read or study the bible...You can't understand it anyway, so why bother...You can only repeat what they told you...

Then why would a Catholic saint say, "Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ," and why would popes grant indulgences for the reading of Scripture?

Then why would a Catholic saint say, "Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ,"

Any one can memorize the scripture...Doesn't mean you understand any of it...

and why would popes grant indulgences for the reading of Scripture?

I'd guess it's for the money...Your church still charges for the indulgances don't they...

So the Pope will knock off, what is it, 3 years of your stay in Purgatory if you read some of the bible???

Purgatory isn't in my bible...I don't believe in Purgatory...I think your church made it up to coerce money out of it's people and control it's members...

Let me give you an example...Paul says he is the greatest sinner of all...But then Paul says "to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord"...

Paul didn't believe in Purgatory...None of the apostles spoke of Purgatory...Your church didn't teach Purgatory til at least the 4th century, maybe later...

Sure, your church says to reads scripture, as long as they can tell you what it means...