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Direct Answer Based on David Bercot’s use of Joshua 1:8, Scripture meditation is aimed at obedience, not just knowledge. That challenges any approach to Bible study that stops at gaining information but doesn’t move a believer toward “observe to do” what God says.

Support from Transcript:

• God’s command to Joshua ties Scripture intake to action: “meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it.”
• The transcript presents Scripture as foundational for God’s people from the beginning: the Law of Moses “marked the beginning of the Holy Scriptures.”
• Priests and Levites were to “read the Scriptures to the people so they would be familiar with them,” implying Scripture was for the whole community, not specialists.
• Bercot’s later critique shows what happens when Scripture becomes controlled information: ordinary Jews became “almost totally dependent on the Jewish theologians for their knowledge of Scripture.”
• The whole chapter contrasts God’s purpose (people knowing God’s word to follow it) with later systems that kept people in “spiritual ignorance.”