To help those that kept it locked up for so many years learn what's actually in it.
***WShy do Protestants write so many books when the Bible is supposed to be “perspicuous?”
To help those that kept it locked up for so many years learn what’s actually in it.***
Until Gutenberg, the Church was the only means of keeping and producing accurate Bibles. And then they got Gutenberg to produce Bibles with his printing press. Hardly locked up. I guess that you have also forgotten that nearly 95% of Europe was illiterate until that point as well. Even if the people had Bibles in their homes, what would they have done with them? Looked at the pretty pictures?
wmfights: To help those that kept it locked up for so many years learn what's actually in it
Aaaaw, it's that old rag again. Well, in the East we could read the Bible because we had it written in our language and so did the Greeks and the Syriacs, and the Copts, etc.
The Church collected the canon by interpreting what was canon-material. Every Tom, Dick and Harriette do not have that authority because it wasn't given to them.
Hence the Protestant heresy that the Bible "explains" itself to every dimwit who can read it, and thre claim that, being "perspicuous," the Bible can be understood even by children.