{"id":4153,"date":"2013-10-31T12:05:50","date_gmt":"2013-10-31T16:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=4153"},"modified":"2013-10-31T12:05:50","modified_gmt":"2013-10-31T16:05:50","slug":"the-bible-for-the-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=4153","title":{"rendered":"The Bible for the People"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cthe reformation had to undo the untold damage caused by the decision made by leaders of the Roman Catholic Church that the Bible was too difficult for ordinary people, and was reserved for scholars; and that instead of the Bible, the ordinary people would have statues and paintings; \u2018the bibles of the uneducated.\u2019 This policy produced generations of people who knew Bible images, but had no idea what they meant.\u201d[1]<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This statement helps us understand the world before the Reformation and how we have benefitted from the Reformation. It is also a challenge to our current setting. Here in the West people aren\u2019t forbidden to read the Bible, just very often though don\u2019t bother. The idea that the Bible is too difficult for \u201cordinary people\u201d is common in our churches and people rely on \u201cimages\u201d gathered from pop Christian songs and films or simply from the culture at large. As a result we have returned to a setting in which many people know some basic Bible images or concepts but know very little of what it all means. We are in need of a great renewal in the church directing us once more to the Scripture, so that we might properly grasp the Gospel and its implications.<\/p>\n

Semper Reformanda!<\/p>\n


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[1]<\/a> Peter Adam, \u201cCalvin\u2019s School of Christ for Preachers,\u201d in Aspects of Reforming: Theology and Practice in Sixteenth Century Europe<\/i><\/a>, ed. Michael Parsons (Paternoster, 2013), p. 119.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cthe reformation had to undo the untold damage caused by the decision made by leaders of the Roman Catholic Church that the Bible was too difficult for ordinary people, and was reserved for scholars; and that instead of the Bible, the ordinary people would have statues and paintings; \u2018the bibles of the uneducated.\u2019 This policy …<\/p>\n

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