Well, i surely agree with you in spirit, and i hope you find the Word, which is not plainly written in the Bible, although It points to It. This took me about...40 years to discover, and my hope is that it doesn't take you as long. There are certainly plenty of clues, but when one begins by allowing others to interpret for them, these clues become occluded, and we too become convinced that there is something "plainly written," when i could demonstrate otherwise at any passage you care to quote.
And far from diminishing the Book, this validates It, in my eyes, although that may not make too much sense to you at the moment. Imagine if you will, some very well-meaning people, who have decided that Christ is returning bodily, very soon, having just heard Him at the Sermon on the Mount, and selling all of their possessions, and waiting corporately for Him to return, just like they are sure that they heard. No doubt you are familiar with the relevant passages. Now, just imagine that these same people are the ones who developed the doctrines that you now believe are plainly written in the Book--even though they are not--and again i can prove it to you--or at least demonstrate the concept; i am not here to prove anything to anyone--with any doctrine you care to name.
These people, well intentioned though they may be, are naturally going to impart to you such passages as "If a man will not work, neither should he eat," because in their literal understanding, this is a principle that they can understand. But they prolly won't get around to quoting "Don't work for food..." in the same sermon, see, because they have a point to make, most likely. You have to go find that one for yourself. Paul has described these people, as has Christ ("If you then, being evil..."). So my premise is that you have gotten half of the story--or likely somewhat less--and you must go seek the other half.
And it is in there, in our Book of questions, sure enough; so the question then becomes "Are you strong enough to take the truth?" Because lemme tell you, you will know when you are getting close by the signs, because the world you live in right now, your comfortable existence, will be screaming at you, from every quarter, man, i mean your wife will be screaming, your pastor will be calling you on the carpet, your church will be having meetings concerning you, your kids will be looking at you funny, and your boss will even be giving you grief, ok. And your brain--lol, don't even get me started on what your brain is going to be spitting up at you. All from a few well-placed questions. Some of which you can read right in this thread, ok. The ones no one will answer, because they can't answer. That came right out of the Book.
Just imagine the furor that Breaking Up Nehushtan caused, even though that aspect is not recorded there in Kings--um, you're familiar with Nehushtan, right? You surely already heard many sermons on the subject, i guess, from those people that you trusted to clearly interpret the Book for you--and put yourself in the position of the worshippers of Nehushtan, even though you are really the Priest there, or will be when you are done anyway. But this is a lonely road, ok, and prolly should not even be attempted until you have come back from being driven into the wilderness. Or, i dunno, that's how it happened for me.
There are many other examples; you can just put yourself in Paul's place, for the three years after his epiphany, before he got with the Jerusalem Apostles, if you like. Again, this is (rather strangely) not described in the Book, which you might question at some point--the main author of the NT had an epiphany, a salvation experience, and the next three years of his life (on the run, of course) are occluded from you? Actually they are not, and we just gloss over those parts; there are clues. I mean, you don't think he just went back to his mansion, and his hot tub, and ordered a massage or something, do you? Who knows? I guess it was a minute before the bounty got put on his head, lol, maybe he milked it or something. But somehow i doubt it. I wish you the best should you take up this challenge, that is quite plainly in the Book.
