Were in an age of skepticism

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Were in an age of skepticism religious
division b/c people are not studying the Bible!

• Why are people not studying the Bible?
• They are indifferent to the Bible, uninterested
  in it, could care less if it is true or not, and
  therefore utterly reject its teaching (cf. Matt.
  1315).
• They do not realize its importance and see other
  things as more important (cf. Matt. 56).
  
• They know the Bible condemns their spiritual
  condition and, rather than changing, they satisfy
  their conscience by avoiding Scripture (cf. Jas.
  125 Prov. 512).
• They have been told that the Bible cannot be
  understood.

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Can the Bible Be Understood?

• Some say No!
• For centuries, it has been pressed on the minds
  of man that Scriptures are not intended for the
  common people, and man must come to the church
  for an official interpretation and
  understanding.
• What a disservice to mankind! Rendering people
  helpless!
  
• Some have found some Scriptures to be hard to
  understand and thereby lump every Scripture into
  the cannot understand the Bible mindset.
  
• Peter says, our beloved brother Paulhas
  written to youin which are some things hard to
  understand, which untaught and unstable people
  twist (2 Pet. 315-16).

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Can the Bible Be Understood?

• But, God says His Word was/is intended for ALL
  and can be understood by the common man!
  
• how that by revelation He made known to me the
  mystery (as I have briefly written already, by
  which, when you read, you may understand my
  knowledge in the mystery of Christ) (Eph.
  33-4).