The Helpful and Clear Guidance of Scripture

There are some difficult parts of Scripture! All Scripture is God-breathed, but not all Scripture is equally easy to understand. Students of the word must interpret the harder parts of Scripture with the clearer parts of it. And speaking of the clarity of Scripture, much of God's word is not too difficult to understand. I …

The Clarity/Perspicuity of Scripture (Bavinck)

Reading through Herman Bavinck on the attributes of Scripture I ran across a helpful note on the clarity of Scripture. I was going to post it here but I found out I did already in August, 2021. Anyway, here it is again because it's good enough to share twice! I appreciate Herman Bavinck's explanation and …

The Clarity of Scripture (Bavinck)

One wonderful aspect or attribute of Scripture is that it is clear in the matters of salvation. This has been called the perspicuity of Scripture. The Westminster Confession explains this teaching quite well in chapter 1, sections 6 & 7. One thing the Confession says is that both learned and unlearned people can attain a …

The Perspicuity (Clarity) of Scripture

This is one of my favorite resources for studying the Westminster Confession of Faith: An Exposition of the Westminster Confession of Faith by Robert Shaw (originally published in the 1850’s).  It is clear, brief, biblical, and edifying.  This morning I ran across Shaw’s discussion of Scripture – specifically the perspicuity (clarity) of Scripture (WCF 1.6-7).  …

Singing and the Perspicuity of Scripture (II)

Awhile back I argued that we need to update the vocab, syntax, and grammar of our church songs.  We should want our church songs to clearly reflect the teaching of Scripture; keeping the language understandable will help in that endeavor. The basis of these statements is what we in the Reformation tradition call the perspicuity (clarity) of …