You got it all wrong...And I'm sure your cookies are great...
Jesus didn't provide the scripture for 'scholars'...He provided the scriptures for the average people...
There is not a single verse in the scriptures that indicate the more educated a person is, the more he'll know of the scriptures...Quite the contrary...Do you know how one comes to understand the scriptures???
Luk 24:45 Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the Scriptures,
No one, scholar or not, can understand the scriptures unless Jesus opens their understanding...
And then Jesus says you won't get anything that tough or difficult till you get the easy stuff first...You can't handle the meat til you get the milk that Jesus provides...That includes the 'scholars' as well...
2 Pet 3:16 As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
Emphasis added.
Luke 24:45 is an interesting verse. It's Christ's words to some of his disciples as they were traveling on the road to Emmaus. Christ was talking (teaching) his disciples how the Scriptures (obviously OT at that point) were/do speak of Him. That is, how His revelation was "hidden" there but "now" revealed.
The point is of course that this re-enforces the message of 2 Pet 3:16. Just as his disciples got it wrong when they read their Scriptures to predict the coming Messiah would be a political figure, one to immediately re-establish the Israeli state's dominance in the world, the passage from St. Peter's second epistle warns us that without proper instruction, without proper "education", the Scripture can be (and are) "twisted" to be unreadable.
Certainly it's possible that Jesus Himself directly teaches us even today what the Scriptures mean (say) (which is what you may reply to me with). But this doesn't negate the possibility that He can *also* use *other people* to teach us today. After all, that's why He left us "another comforter" in the first place. To keep us on the right path. Is it unacceptable to believe that His Holy Spirit uses other people to educate us, to keep us from twisting Scripture "to our own destruction"?
In closing I'd say this: If it's impossible to believe that the Holy Spirit doesn't use other people to teach us (educate us) about His Word, then what one has done by saying such is stated, "I don't believe the Holy Spirit inhabits anyone for the purposes of education other than me". A lofty self-description indeed; such a belief is greater than the described role of even the Pope.
Yet, when I studied scripture, I got it wrong.
I looked at Romans 9:18
18Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth.
And I saw a very Muslim point of view. That I can do everything right and Our Lord could condemn me anyway.
I prayed and begged for the answer. For God to show me what this meant and I kept coming to the same conclusion (mind you, this was in my “I was only born Catholic” days)
I was wrong. No amount of prayer set me right. Sorry FRiend, while I trust that you are smart enough to get it all, I’m not. However, with wisdom comes understanding. I know that I’m not smart enough. I go to those who are.