Can one learn the Word of God on ther own?

Question

Rom 10:14 How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?


Rom 10:15 And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!


Isa 28:9 ¶ Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? [them that are] weaned from the milk, [and] drawn from the breasts.


Isa 28:10 For precept [must be] upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, [and] there a little:


Isa 28:11 ¶ For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people

Any tounge but hebrew. Think about it? God is perfect

Answer 1

Of Cos

Answer 2

I have a hard time with religion because so many preachers and religions have confused the words of men as the words of God. I think that in finding God it has to be a personal experience. One person has to have a feeling of finding God. They have to know in their own hearts that they have found God. No preacher or Pastor can put that feeling there. It has to come to the individual person. Each persons conversion is different. When someone wants to know I feel in my heart that God will find a way because he is the creator of all things. He is suppose to know each person better than they even know themselves. I want to share a story that I heard a long time ago. There was a woman living in occupied Germany. She really never thought about religion and was never exposed to it, how would she ever know of it? She met a G.I. over there and he was sent home. Before he left he handed her a bible and wrote in the front empty page to read this and to write him and let him know what she thought. She tucked the Bible away and sometime later she read it. The feelings that she had while reading it was a feeling that she had never encountered before. She wrote the GI and told him of her experiences. A few years later the GI returned and they were married. She was baptised and the preacher said that she was converted by the spirit of God. So to answer your question, I think that the spirit of God is what converts someone not a preacher.

Answer 3

Well, my answer might not be correct but I believe that although we might think that we were learning or did learn the word of GOD on our own that all along we had help from GOD to desire to read it and to understand it.

For example, some people claim to have read the Bible and yet come up with widely different responses or views to questions or interpretations of scripture.

I know of a person who may've read the Bible and it seems that when they read or learned of David and Jonathan's friendship, they felt that the relationship was "homosexual" (which it was not).

A friend in a prayer group had trouble with the Bible because of some of the statements by Paul the apostle; she felt that the statements reflected a repressive culture when, as I understand it, the statements were directed to churches experiencing conflict.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

No.

If anyone can, then there'd be no need to listen to sermons of pastors or priests or biblical scholars. No need for preachers.

God sent His Apostles to PREACH. He could've asked them to just write a book and distribute to people if people, individually, are capable of learning on our own. Consider what St. Peter remarked about the writings of St. Paul:

---2 Peter 3:16---"...certain things hard to be understood, which the unlearned and the unstable wrest, as they do to also to the other Scriptures, to their own destruction".

St. Peter also said:
---2 Peter 1:20---"No prophecy of Scripture is made for private interpretation".

And what about the story in Acts 8:31 where while riding in a chariot, St. Phillip asked a man reading a book of Isaiah if he understood it. The man replied, "How can I understand unless a man show me?".

If the books in the Bible were not sifted from among hundreds of other ancient documents for us, is it even possible that everyone out of millions of professed christians today, working individually, would perfectly identify which ones were inspired and which ones were not thus, forming the Bible as we have it now?

So it is really foolish to assume that everyone, even with perfectly good intentions, can learn on his own.

Answer 6

If your god is Jesus Christ, christens & catholicswill say no you can't . You need to ask to be saved ,make a committment, and concern yourself with being a religous person and go to church for the rest of your life! OR
You can understand that when we are born we are all programed to naturally understand the difference between right & wrong. Follow the 10 Commandments to the best of your ability, check out the laws of Karma, and you will have a wonderful life and a wonderful afterlife. No stress no bull sheet!

Answer 7

God is not perfect.

Think about it... can anyone explain the playtupus, kiwi, or man? I am still unsure if they were an error on God's part, or just a practical joke.

Hey, at least he got woman right...

Now... onto the first part of your question: "Can one learn the Word of God on ther own?"

The answer is, yes... NOW we can, should one choose to.

In the past, the "church" did NOT want that to happen, which is why, 1.) only the RICH were allowed to attend church. 2.) Everything was written in Latin. (God forbid, a "servant" or poor person were to actually learn to read, they still wouldn't be able to read the Bible.

So, yes. IF THEY CHOOSE TO.

But, if you insist on brow beating the word of "god" into those who really don't care about YOUR religion, then what you are doing is ANTI-CHRISTIAN.

Answer 8

You must hear the word from the mouth of the Preacher,and you forgot the passage in Jeremiah,God shall five them pastors from his own heart

Answer 9

In this day and time especially for someone to say they have not heard, especially within the states and its regions is no less a lie.......with the written Word, books, TV, radio, print, preachers, missionaries........
Outside of the regions, is why He has sent forth those to speak and share His Word.

Answer 10

I suppose you can, but you do not have a perfect mind, so you are going to get some things wrong and find other things confusing or disturbing if you go it alone.

Even in the most human sense, there's safety in numbers.

Answer 11

If you want to learn the word of God by yourself I would recommend carrying a a dictionary just in case the "word" is unfamiliar to you.