Bible reading commandment

Commandment Four: Remember that you don’t have to be a genius to understand it.

Clergypersons, over the years, have given the person in the pew, the common reader of the Bible, the idea that you need a Master’s degree and high IQ to understand the Bible.
By constantly referring to the original Hebrew and Greek texts, the impression is given that those languages have to be known to truly be able to understand the Bible.
Preachers act mysterious about the Bible as well and give the wrong impression to those who want to read the Bible for themselves.
In order to prepare sermons, many clerics take a passage here and a passage there and assemble moralistic speeches. This gives the impression that to understand any of the Bible one has to
understand the entire Bible. Sometimes, clerics do not make any sense.
They wander all over the Bible and give the impression that the Bible makes as much sense as they do. That can be very little. People become confused and think that, if the Bible confuses the cleric, it would be hopeless for the common person to ever hope to understand the Bible. So they never try.
It is very popular these days for some preachers to attempt to interest parishioners with sermon titles like “The 17 Secrets of a Happy Life” or “21 Bible Ways to Have a Decent Marriage.” This approach makes the Bible seem like a mine of secrets and keys that the intimated will be able to find and use for the better life.
This was never the intention of the writers of the Bible. They simply recorded the things that God did to them, for them, and with them.