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The Protestant claim that believers can and must encounter God directly through scripture without priestly mediation.
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The Protestant claim that believers can and must encounter God directly through scripture without priestly mediation.
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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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"...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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"...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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"...because what will happen is by limiting the church you create direct access to God and this creates the idea of crisis in faith..."
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"...be human. Okay, that's the Renaissance. Protestantism believes that we have direct access. The Catholic religion, the Pope is the divine representative, and the..."
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"...you truly believe in God, God will forgive you. You have direct access to God, okay? So, he's denying the authority of the Pope,..."
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"...Church. Now, let's look at the Protestants, okay? They believed in direct access to God through the Bible. Well, the Vikings believed in courage...."
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The Protestant Reformation begins as liberation from priest, pope, and ritual.
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The Divine Comedy does not defeat Virgil by denouncing him.
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