This raises the same valid question asked of hyper-KJOs: what of those who do not have any Greek resources available to them?
But I've never met a MAD who just read scripture and came to their conclusions. MAD is a structured doctrine and it's taught.
If someone wasn't indoctrinated into MAD and other stuff, they'd be getting it straight from scripture by the Spirit. The problem is replacing scripture with formulated doctrines.
Someone alone apart from all indoctrination is not going to be taught all these organized systems of theology, including MAD.
Or simply are not up to understanding what is available?
This is using an exception to address the majority. I'm referring to those who have spent years studying organized dogma according to their indoctrination, but have never bothered to find out what the words means instead of what they think they mean in their shallow understanding of their own language.
Is God's grace thereby limited?
No. And wouldn't it be great to actually define grace rather than just referring to it without understanding of its depth of meaning?
No. But man obscures it with doctrines and definitions of his own. That's why I had to scrape off of and out of me to find the truth from scripture in the Greek text.
We weren't meant to go it alone. We were meant to be taught by the Holy Spirit and the thirdly-set-in-the Church Didaskalos (Teacher). The Church-at-large has scuttled that and made "teacher" a role for whomever they can get to take a class in their system of Christian education.
Will their growth be limited lacking what you say is not only useful, but vital?
No. But MADers have gone a long way down a road based on a foundation of completely faulty definitions and their applications, just like most others.
At some point, getting back to the basics of the words themselves is what's vital.
Language is the problem, and it's what Satan uses to instill and install his devices (noema - concepts of the mind) in mankind. That's how he came to Eve, and he hasn't change his tactics. He challenged what God meant by the words He said, and presented another meaning as a false dialectic to replace God's didactic Word.
Language does that, and it's passive at the core of the sub-cognitive. It's in the heart. All the wrong meanings and definitions are in the heart.
As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. It's all about ontology.
