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The Protestant claim that believers can and must encounter God directly through scripture without priestly mediation.
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direct access
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...the church was seen as corrupt and because the church denied direct access to god okay and this is something that bronte will discuss..."
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Protestantism responds by replacing priestly mediation with direct access to God through Bible reading, making the Church egalitarian in principle.
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The Protestant Reformation's main idea, in Jiang's account, is direct access to God through the Bible because God is within humans and humans are within God.
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"...responses of the Protestant religion. The first response to Orthodoxy is direct access. You don't need the priest to tell you what the Bible..."
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"life around this faith in God okay so on one hand the Protestant religion is solving a lot of problems created by the church..."
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"...okay does that make sense okay all right so then with Direct Access you are forced to have literacy okay you are forced to..."
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"...the key idea of the Protestant Reformation is that you have direct access to God. Right? And, how do you access God? Through the..."
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"...so the idea of the Protestant Reformation is that you can access God through the Bible itself. Okay? And, why that's and why you're..."
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"...the church was seen as corrupt and because the church denied direct access to god okay and this is something that bronte will discuss..."
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"...ever released. And so much more. In the circle, you'll have direct access to me. You can tell us what you want this show..."
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"...America's American Americans fundamentally believe in individualism and in liberty and direct access to God. So, yeah, I think the Catholic Church and the..."
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"...new system, all right? The new system is, first of all, direct access. You don't have to go through the priest anymore. You don't..."
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"...problem will create more problems, okay? The first is that of direct access, so you can access God directly. The problem is that Christians..."
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"...if we don't have. If the press, for instance, doesn't have direct access to the people who are making these decisions?"
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"...that many Jewish Americans, yet at the same time, AIPAC has direct access to the White House. No matter who's in the White House,..."
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