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:The Protestant doctrine of '''''[[sola scriptura]]''''' includes the fundamental necessity of properly understanding ''in context'' the true sense of scripture with helps of accurately informed [[exegesis]] and knowledgeable preaching, not interpretations based on [[ignorance]]which obscures the meaning of the Bible, and actually "takes away from the words" (Revelation 22:18-19). Many persons mistakenly [[Misrepresentation|misrepresent]] the meaning of ''sola scriptura'' as fundamentally an [[Ignorance|ignorant]] interpretation of the Bible based solely on the uniformed personal intuition of individual private judgment guided only by the principle of ''[[sola spiritu]]'' utterly divorced from the informed insights of scholarship, as if an informed and extensively educated understanding of the Bible is [[ipso facto]] the product of corrupt thinking influenced by the liberalist doubts of [[Agnosticism|agnostic]] scholars and doctrines of devils (1 Timothy 4:1-2). Many troubling questions raised by ordinary Christian believers about the meaning of passages in the Bible have been answered by informed biblical scholars and knowledgeable commentators who studiously avoid engaging in doctrinal [[polemic]], so that their readers can make informed decisions for their lives based of the actual meaning of the sacred scriptures, and be able to give an answer to those who ask a reason for their hope in Christ. Many persons have changed denominations because of their increased knowledge of what the Bible actually teaches. Erroneous doctrines and heresies based on incomplete or distorted interpretations of the Bible have been exposed by fully informed and truly devout Christian scholars as the product of ignorance and the opinions of unstable persons (2 Peter 3; 1 John 2:18-29). (See [[Historical-critical method (Higher criticism)]], [[Hermeneutics]], [[Cafeteria Christianity]], [[Heresy]], and [[Christian in name only]].)