 The devil has convinced both church members that no one can understand the Bible except the preacher. And many preachers, of course, take a verse for a text, talk for half an hour on it. Next Sunday, he uses another verse, talks for half an hour on it. And by listening to one verse per week for a hundred years, a listener doesn't know any more about the Bible than when they started. Much of the Word of God has been removed from the Bible.