One of the most toxic fruits of the Protestant Reformation is the concept of Sola Scriptura, the ahistorical belief that the sum of all religious knowledge exists within the (truncated) Bible, and that tradition and the wisdom of the Church Fathers can be categorically dismissed. This, coupled with flawed translations, is how we get people insisting that the Blessed Virgin Mary was just an unremarkable woman who gave birth to Jesus and then a bunch of other kids. A common form of “Bible study” is to go through scripture line by line, reading each one in isolating and seeking to…

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