This leads me to raise the issue of how often the Bible is abuse and misused on the hearts and minds of many who would otherwise be faithful to all that the Church has ordained from its beginnings as based on the foundation of Jesus Christ and His Apostles.
Bible abuse is widely prevalent today than ever before.
You see this misuse and abuse on televised ministries, hear it on the radio and see it in the various churches. Those who can quote chapter line and verse from the Bible are a dime a dozen. Far to many forget that the Bible came out of the Church, not the Church out of the Bible. Also, such implies and means of those things transmitted orally as a result of Jesus' recorded teaching, that are not contained in the Bible because there was so very much that Jesus taught His Apostles that it was said that there was not enough time and room to fill the books of all that Jesus imparted. The life experiences and teachings of Jesus Christ apply directly to many, if not all, issues facing people today who have been abused and oppressed by what I can only call 'sick churches' which others might call 'sick religion'.