“Who needs popes, priests, pastors, preachers, etc. telling them what to believe when they can get God’s word direct and unadulterated from the Bible?”
Oh, so you can read Hebrew and Greek? I mean, that would be “God’s word direct and unadulterated”.
Some people believe that God's word transcends language. That a layperson can read a Bible in English, or another language, and pray for understanding, and they will receive the understanding they seek from reading those words of God, even through translation.
Other people think this is not possible.
That's pretty easy to do with all the online Hebrew and Greek lexicons.