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Thank you for sharing your concerns, dear sister in Christ!

You agreed that one could receive the Word of God in ways other than reading. But, then you jumped to the conclusion that one who does not read Scripture must have lost interest in it.

I did not say that, you did.

me at post 1320: But a healthy literate Christian should examine himself if he has lost interest in the words of God, i.e. why has this happened?

you at post 1321: This is jumping to a conclusion. Why does it mean one has lost interest in the words of God if one does not daily read Scripture?

I didn't speak of daily Scripture reading much less describe the failure to do so as a loss of interest in God's words.

That said, I firmly aver that there is no substitute for the words of God. Ironically, today's Chambers devotional made the point rather well. The verse he addressed:

"They said to Moses, ’You speak with us, and we will hear; but let not God speak with us, lest we die’ " —Exodus 20:19

And Chambers' remark:

We show how little love we have for God by preferring to listen to His servants rather than to Him.

Surely no one here would argue that Moses was blessed to receive the words of God directly. Likewise the apostles and others were blessed by hearing Jesus directly.

And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you. – Exodus 3:14

Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am. - John 8:58

And so many of us today have our faculties and are literate and have the words of God available to us, directly, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Why wouldn't any of us want to read them?

Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they [also] which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.

I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty. - Revelation 1:7-8

To God be the glory, not man, never man.

I reiterate what I said earlier and stand by it.

It was you who brought a lack of interest in God’s word into the conversation regarding whether or not the faithful must read Scripture.

God’s word is revealed to us in many, many ways.

His Word is Jesus.

*****And so many of us today have our faculties and are literate and have the words of God available to us, directly, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Why wouldn’t any of us want to read them?****

St. Jerome said, “Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ.”

He said this at a time when nearly all Christians had no personal access to Scripture due to the lack of availability, the prohibitive cost of owning a Bible or because of the inability to read.

****And so many of us today have our faculties and are literate and have the words of God available to us, directly, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Why wouldn’t any of us want to read them?****

Again, some hear it in Mass, some read daily reflections or pray or watch preachers or religious programs on TV. It’s a matter of personal approach to hearing God’s word and just because one prefers one of these means to the solo/individual reading of Scripture, it does not mean they have no interest in God’s word.