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Jiang's distilled takeaway from the passage: private scriptural encounter becomes part of salvation and judgment rather than something ceded entirely to priestly authority.
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read the Bible by yourself
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "The Bible. You do understand? Okay? What are you not allowed to do at this time, if you're Catholic?"
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "The Bible. You do understand? Okay? What are you not allowed to do at this time, if you're Catholic?"
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"The Bible. You do understand? Okay? What are you not allowed to do at this time, if you're Catholic?"
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"Read the Bible by yourself. You're not allowed to do that. And what Donnie is saying is like, hey, if you really want to..."
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"...tell you that Satan is lying. When you actually read the Bible by yourself, you will see he's telling the truth."
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"...access God directly through the Bible. You have to read the Bible by yourself. You have to interpret it properly. Okay? And so, obviously,..."
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"...you had to listen to the priest. You couldn't read the Bible by yourself. Now you had to read the Bible by yourself in..."
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"...truths of God. But if you actually try to read the Bible by yourself it's impossible. Okay? Because it's been redacted so many times...."
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