How about simply reading the Bible, instead of reading things into the Bible?
May I butt into this and make a brief comment? This seems a strangely provocative suggestion. The Bible is not, after all, a set of stereo instructions. It is a gathering of diverse, in both content and perspective, grouping of letters and books. It was written under the inspiration of the Spirit, but isn't automatically read that way, and attests itself to the inherent pitfalls and difficulties in interpreting what it contains. As the Ethiopian eunuch himself recognized, how can one understand what is read without someone to show him? Consider all the pharisees and saducees who had spent their lives in scholarly study of the scriptures, and yet were so completely misguided.
Your statement above strikes me as similar to what I was discussing with Elsie about the peculiar Evangelical approach to the Bible which sees it entirely apart from its place within the faith community. It sounds like you see the Bible as something you should read, determine what seems right, and then judge the entire 2000 year Church against. That is unnatural, if I may say. You say the Church reads into the Bible, but I see the Evangelicals as doing so, or at least reading it out of the Bible, so to speak. What you are saying here just sounds like a person coming to the Bible from the backside and then being shocked that others came from the front.
“Then Jesus’ mother and brothers arrived. Standing outside, they sent someone in to call him. A crowd was sitting around him, and they told him, Your mother and brothers are outside looking for you.”
Mark 3:31
Must be nice when you can pick and choose from the Bible which passages you believe in, which ones you don’t, and then make up other things which simply aren’t there.
There you go again!