And this raises a problem I have cited several times. Since the advent of the printing press, the distribution of the Bible has far surpassed the Apostolic Church's ability to personally explain it to every holder. This disparity grows more and more pronounced every year. (I am proud that our Baptist missionaries have a little to do with it. :) Millions of people have no access at all to any Apostolics to ask what they are reading means. Should they have never been given a Bible in the first place?
I'm actually surprised that the respective RC and Orthodox Churches haven't (to my knowledge) written one, definitive, several thousand-page-long work that interprets the Bible verse-by-verse. Then you could distribute that, along with the Bibles you give out.
Jesus obviously could not have forseen any of this. I am sure He did His best. But, come on, establishing an authoritative Church to address the sort of questions you pose?
Word cannot be reduced to words.
Perhaps WAY back in the day, the context would have better understood by the average layman. I'm just saying that today, I don't think it is.
Are you now saying that the printing press made the understanding of the Councils more difficult?
the distribution of the Bible has far surpassed the Apostolic Church's ability to personally explain it
One evident result was growth in Protestant denominations. As you yourself admit, there has been no corresponding growth in understanding.