Christians are made by engaging the Word of God complete

Memorize this: The Roman Catholic church burned the Word of God and tortured and burned anyone who tried to bring the Word of God to people, but they called people to ritual water baptism all day long. Antichrist knows what regenerates God's own. Repeat: Antichrist knows what regenerates God's own. The Word of God regenerates - the Word and the Spirit - not ritual, not clerics, not physical trappings that appeal to inane sense-oriented bozos with the power of attention of maybe - maybe - being able to read a longish newspaper article on their favorite sports team.

The average seminary professor has never read the Word of God straight through complete. The average seminary professor can't even discern what the whole and pure Word of God is (hint: it's not modern perversions based on Roman Catholic and Arian manuscripts given to you by 19th century atheists and spiritualists).

The average church pastor (or 'reverend' or whatever they vainly call themselves) has never read the Word of God through complete.

It's the same in the secular world. 99% of people with a degree in the classics have never read the Iliad through complete.

To engage the Word of God (or the Iliad for that matter) in a dedicated, serious manner requires valuation. To then get anything from such summit and beyond-summit (in the case of the Word of God) influences requires not filtering the influence through the words and opinion (and fear) of man, or through one's worldly demands and one's vanity and shallow self-will.

It is the Word of God that makes Christians. Christians are bred by the Word (to quote Gurnall). Not ritual, not clerics, not church buildings.

It is a joke that no Christian 'church' in the world makes it a stated goal for everybody who comes into contact with it to read the Word of God complete once, twice, three times, seven times (and for church Christians who like to mock such numbers why don't you write the numbers one through ten on pieces of paper, put them in a hat and pick one then use IT as a goal; or...just go back to your television shows or whatever).

Regeneration is the main thing, and regeneration is effected, when it is effected, by the Word and the Spirit.

All the nonsense (and worse) you hear coming out of self-identified Christians is the noise of the unregenerate. Get the Word of God into you complete. It may harden you, but it is the only thing that can quicken you. Force the issue. Vain scholars read commentaries all their lives, Christians engage the pure and whole Word of God. It is living language. Get it into you complete. Allow it to quicken you. Get it into memory, will, and understanding...