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The Church can not operate without Scripture. (SD) ====================================================== A totally disingenuous statement. I'm sure you know better. Most Catholics, and most Protestants for that matter, don't know anything about Scripture. The Church operated for hundreds of years with Scripture available only to the select few. A confused statement since "the select few" were the leaders of the Church AND all those who were literate. The percent. in the 13th Century was probably not many fewer than in the 2nd Century.

A confused statement since "the select few" were the leaders of the Church AND all those who were literate. The percent. in the 13th Century was probably not many fewer than in the 2nd Century.

If those in the Catholic Church represented the largest portion of those who could read during those years, they are certainly going to be held responsible for what was taught to the ignorant and the illiterate of that time aren't they?

A confused statement since "the select few" were the leaders of the Church AND all those who were literate. The percent. in the 13th Century was probably not many fewer than in the 2nd Century.

So the only people worth hearing the truth were the educated? Or the only ones that could know the truth were the educated? Isn't it true that the majority opinion on why the Decretals were passed off is that the majority of the populace was uneducated and didn't know anybetter. Fish in a barrel. Just tell them whatever you want and nobody will question it because people of the time were gullible and superstitious. Wow, how telling is that, huh? Interesting that the Reformation took place in a time when people were becoming more educated - not to today's standards mind you.

At least in the 1st century, the people were taught right. And the Apostles busied themselves as much with teaching as with warning the Congregation against errors. The Catholic church Embraced the errors and killed people for not embracing them. Wow, quite a different approach isn't it. Don't remember the Apostles running anyone through for not accepting Christianity, or teaching "error". They kept to the truth and ran the bad guys out by TEACHING the things that JESUS taught. A Christian who knows God's word cannot be led astray if obeying God. Of course the opposite is true as well, keep someone ignorant of the truth and reliant upon another for their understanding and you can feed them any line of bull you wish. Islam shows that in abundance. And they won't come to the truth any sooner than one who cherishes the truth will accept Mariology or the Pope, cause they blindly cling to their teachings rather than listen to truth. There is none so blind as he who will not see. None so dumb as he who will not learn. None so alone as he who will not suffer God in their lives.

Ok, you know the drill. Blindfold and stick. Candy games again.

Do you care to comment on the real knowledge of Scripture by most who call themselves Christian?

The percent. in the 13th Century was probably not many fewer than in the 2nd Century.

I read recently that the estimated literacy rate in Judea in the first century C.E. was in the range of 3-5%. And this was a highly literate culture for the time.