Will THIS suffice??
Where's that YOPIOS picture again?? So you're telling me God gave us His Word but we are unable to understand it? Is that some sort of failing on Gods part? Does He have a Plan B? God gives us the Gospel (literally the Good News) but it doesn't do us any good? I thought with God all things are possible. Even understanding His Word. In fact I believe it is His Promise to give us understanding. A lot further than Catholic tradition because it is His Word.
Plan B was the Apostles and their anointed successors who preach and teach His Word and His Will to all nations, just as He instructed them.
That those who stray from His flock fall into ever imaginable heresy and evil is easy to see. Unless you choose to be blind.
27 And he arose and went; and behold, there was an Ethiopian eunuch, a court official of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was in charge of all her treasure; and he had come to Jerusalem to worship.
28 And he was returning and sitting in his chariot, and was reading the prophet Isaiah.
29 And the Spirit said to Philip, “Go up and join this chariot.” 30 And when Philip had run up, he heard him reading Isaiah the prophet, and said, “Do you understand what you are reading?”
31 And he said, “Well, how could I, unless someone guides me?” And he invited Philip to come up and sit with him.
32 Now the passage of Scripture which he was reading was this: “HE WAS LED AS A SHEEP TO SLAUGHTER; AND AS A LAMB BEFORE ITS SHEARER IS SILENT, SO HE DOES NOT OPEN HIS MOUTH.
33”IN HUMILIATION HIS JUDGMENT WAS TAKEN AWAY; WHO SHALL RELATE HIS GENERATION? FOR HIS LIFE IS REMOVED FROM THE EARTH.”
34 And the eunuch answered Philip and said, “Please tell me, of whom does the prophet say this? Of himself, or of someone else?”
35 And Philip opened his mouth, and beginning from this Scripture he preached Jesus to him.
36 And as they went along the road they came to some water; and the eunuch said, “Look! Water! What prevents me from being baptized?”
37 (See marginal note.)
38 And he ordered the chariot to stop; and they both went down into the water, Philip as well as the eunuch; and he baptized him.
39 And when they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord snatched Philip away; and the eunuch saw him no more, but went on his way rejoicing.
40 But Philip found himself at Azotus; and as he passed through he kept preaching the gospel to all the cities, until he came to Caesarea.
And yet the RCC tells people that they can’t understand Scripture but must rather have their very own infallible magisterium interpret it for them.
And then they criticize non-Catholics for not understanding Scripture, the very thing they’re told THEY can’t do?
Hypocrisy abounds.