The process Plato describes in the “Allegory of the Cave” is applicable to Luther and Calvin’s process to obtaining knowledge. In Luther and Calvin’s case, the shadows the prisoners see in the cave, are the Roman Catholic teachings. As they have only been exposed to Roman Catholic teachings, the teachings become their only truth. When the prisoner is exposed directly to the Bible, he will be liberated from knowing only the Roman Catholic teachings, and start to build his own perspective on the teachings of God. At the beginning, this exposure to new ideas will distress the prisoner more and more by revealing to him that the teachings he had perceived to be the truth were wrong, that what he is beginning to discover is closer to the truth. He
