The Theology of John Calvin

275.994 - 299.24 Nathan W. Bingham

If you read the Bible on your own, you may get all confused. In fact, they found when people read the Bible on their own, they tended to become Protestants. That's really confusing. And so the church says the church has to interpret the Bible for you. This became so serious that in the middle of the 16th century, the Roman Catholic Church actually forbade lay people to read the Bible.