Albion
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I don't think that "resulting in Protestantism" is part of that issue. The Church simply feels and has felt that she has a responsibility to guard the faith, and that includes the instruction of the laity.What if they did eventually misunderstand, misread and fall into heresy, resulting in Protestantism?
Most errors, it can be argued, are not even related to some other denomination's belief system, but are just the strange ideas that individuals come up with as they read something or other in Scripture.
The Church does have a point there, but, as for the argument over the Church having put herself in the way of ordinary people having access to the Scriptures, she certainly did. It's not a false charge.
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