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The point is that for every example you can come up with, we can come up with A LOT more. Don't forget, we say the Bible speaks for itself. You say the Bible is indecipherable without the Church's interpretation. I agree with you. There is NO WAY the literal taking of the Bible comes anywhere close to Roman Catholic theology. Except in very limited circumstances, you have no case to make that Roman Catholicism has any regard for the literal words of scripture. Why else would your hierarchy have sheltered your laity away from those words for so many hundreds of years? If your hierarchy simply reflected those literal words, there would be nothing to be afraid of. Yet, their actions betray the opposite truth.

INDEED.

--Biblically correct.
--Historically correct.
--Currently true.
--Logically true.
--Repeatedly demonstrably true historically and currently.

Thanks. Well put.

FK: "The point is that for every example you can come up with, we can come up with A LOT more. Don't forget, we say the Bible speaks for itself. You say the Bible is indecipherable without the Church's interpretation. I agree with you. There is NO WAY the literal taking of the Bible comes anywhere close to Roman Catholic theology. Except in very limited circumstances, you have no case to make that Roman Catholicism has any regard for the literal words of scripture. Why else would your hierarchy have sheltered your laity away from those words for so many hundreds of years? If your hierarchy simply reflected those literal words, there would be nothing to be afraid of. Yet, their actions betray the opposite truth.

Q:INDEED.

--Biblically correct.
--Historically correct.
--Currently true.
--Logically true.
--Repeatedly demonstrably true historically and currently.

Thanks. Well put."

Q, assuming arguendo the validity of FK's post, how do you account for the theology and ecclesiology and praxis of Orthodoxy which never kept the scriptures from the laity, a laity which ultimately holds the final say (in terms of time and as a practical matter) on what is dogma and what isn't?