Occasionally. After all, it's all us Protestants have. It makes our lives so much simplier.
"You look at the scriptures?
Occasionally. After all, it's all us Protestants have. It makes our lives so much simplier."
You guys have it sooooo easy! God made it hard for us Levantine types, what with all the stuff the Fathers wrote (32 volumes, I think, in the latest Ante and Post Nicene Fathers set...and that doesn't cover all of it my any means.) Because we're so nasty and Xenophobic, we passed it on to our near neighbors the Slavs, who also need all the spiritual help they can get so maybe we did them a favor. We tried with you Westerners, but the Latins just boiled it all down to canon law and the rest of you got your underwear in a knot over that and simply decided to read the bible and chuck the rules. But then again, you're much busier than we are and probably wouldn't have time to read all the stuff we do...and of course, as I have said, we do need it more than you guys! :)
I'll try posting more icons for your sake.
My original reference was, of course, tongue in cheek and referred to the fact that the Holy Scripture is written so that we hear it rather than read it, or as you put it "look at it". "Hear+word" yields a dosen references in the New Testament, "read+word" yields none.
blessed are they who hear the word of God (Lk 11:28)
As I remarked on the Erasmus thread, and to your delight, most of the scripture I heard at Mass before I read it. This is the Catholic way.