What does God intend for every believer regarding the Scriptures?

God intends every believer to study the Scriptures and understand them. This is not limited to seminarians or preachers; the common, ordinary person in the pew comprises the church and is expected to know the manifold wisdom of God. No one is too uneducated to have the Word of God.

Les explains that God revealed the mystery so that the manifold wisdom of God might be made known by the church. The church is not just the seminarians or the preachers but everybody—the common ordinary person in the pew comprises the church. They are supposed to know the manifold wisdom of God. Les also uses Tyndale’s desire to get Bibles into the hands of every plow boy in England to illustrate that no one was too uneducated to have the Word of God in his hands. This is what God intends: He wants every single believer to study the Scriptures and to understand them.

Does God want every believer, not just leaders, to study and understand the Scriptures?

Yes. God intends for every single believer, not just seminarians or preachers, to study the Scriptures and understand them. The church is made up of the common, ordinary person in the pew, and His Word should be in the hands of all, no matter how uneducated.