Do you realize that the Bible was written to be READ out loud to people who were mostly illiterate themselves? In the days of the authors and prophets who wrote the books of the Bible, literacy was extremely rare. Thus, the "priest class" existed to quite literally read and explain the Bible to illiterate, uneducated people. The good news is that today, you can read it yourself, and you don't have to rely on others to tell you what it says. In teaching the Bible through my sermons at Abundance.church and getting feedback from lots of people, I'm discovering that perhaps 95% of what people think they know that's "in the Bible" came from someone else, and not from reading scripture. And a whole lot of what they think the scripture says is flat-out wrong. I have been accused of making up Bible passages by people who thought they knew the scripture, and then quickly realized they did not. Blind spots. Don't rely on the "priest class" to tell you what the Bible says. You are not an illiterate person. If you can read this post, you can read the Bible. Get started. And you'll discover you haven't been told nearly as much as you think you have.