It is like building a hut of mud, and when you're one layer in that layer keeps collapsing and you have do do it again, and again, and again. With 2000 years tradition you've built a castle from heavy, immovable rocks that can withstand an attack, keep the keep guarded, keeps standing and is hard to infiltrate. This idea of interpret the Bible by yourself comes across to me as the modernist idea of "just figure it out by yourself" and "just get experience", resulting in every young person now stumbling around in the dark, falling again and again, getting up and going down, like a Looneytune, making the same mistakes that have been made for millenia and that were actually learnt from and reported down the line by every family to avoid from happening again. That's how you build something. Imagine now saying I throw all my PC files in the bin and delete 'm all and start over again. Throwing away all your books and then start writing them again. Burning your house down and building it again. It's madness!
It's an incredible realization that all wisdom built over millenia and forever been around has been control-a selected and deleted in its entirety. And no one ever thinks about the consequences this has had. In 10 years we have a generation whose grandparents are the boomers, not the traditional grandparents we knew, so anything wise that has ever been collected will then not be a real life experience anymore, but a mere glimpse of a black and white picture in a history book at page 367.
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