One more dogmatic truism that has no basis in reality.
Then you believe in loving blindly, without knowing anything of the object of your love. Now, there are numerous, faceless terrorists all over the world who want to kill you. They are your enemies. The Bible says you should love them and you should. Therefore, shouldn't I assume that the relationship with these faceless terrorists that you have is the same as you think proper for us to have with our Lord? That is, with no knowledge and no words, only blind love?
FK: While one CAN certainly come to true faith without having read a word for himself, especially if it is unavailable to him, the danger is in whether the human teacher actually has it right.
And there is no danger in private interpretation of the Scriptures?
Well, here you need to define "private interpretation". Most Apostolics think it means "anything inconsistent with the Apostolic Church". I reject that definition. I think private interpretation is anything inconsistent with the totality of scriptures, so I would consider many Apostolic beliefs to be private interpretations. So, what I said somewhat agrees with you. If one turns his back on learning the scriptures himself, then there will be a danger of being led astray by a false teacher, from any faith. But of course, if one turns his back on learning the scriptures himself, then it might not make any difference. :)
That's what the Lord tells us we should do. Not only should we love those we don't even known as we love ourselves, but we should even love those who want to hurt us, our enemies. Why not love God who gave us all that there is, who provides us with food and comfort, and indeed our very lives. If I am to blindly love my life takers, why should I not blindly love my life Giver? I don't need to read the Bible to give thanks to that which created all this!
Well, here you need to define "private interpretation"
Teachings unknown to the Church. After all it was the Church that decided which books are holy. From this it follows that the Church has the correct interpretation lest it not be able to distinguish inspired from profane.