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Ignorance of the Bible Leads to Error
Let us read our Bibles in private more, and with more pains and
diligence. Ignorance of Scripture is the root of all error, and makes a
person helpless in the hand of the devil. There is less private Bible
reading, I suspect, than there was fifty years ago. I never can believe
that so many men and women would have been “tossed to and fro with every wind of doctrine,”
some falling into skepticism, some rushing into the wildest and
narrowest fanaticism, and some going over to Rome, if there had not
grown up a habit of lazy, superficial, careless, perfunctory reading of
God’s Word. “You do err not knowing the Scriptures” (Matt. 22:29). The Bible in the pulpit must never supersede the Bible at home.
~ J.C. Ryle
