Theological Term of the Week: Perspicuity of Scripture
Wednesday, January 24, 2024 at 2:30AM
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perspicuity of scripture
The teaching that the ordinary reader can understand from scripture what God requires of them for salvation as long as they are willing to seek God’s help to understand and obey it; the truth that “the knowledge necessary unto salvation, though not equally clear on every page of Scripture, is yet conveyed to man throughout the Bible in such a simple and comprehensible form that on who is earnestly seeking salvation can, under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, by reading and studying the Bible, easily obtain for himself the necessary knowledge.”1 Perspicuity does not mean that the scripture contains no passages that may be difficult to understand or that all passages are equally clear. This doctrine is also—and prehaps more commonly—referred to as the clarity of scripture.

 

Learn more:

  1. Simply Put: The Perspicuity of Scripture
  2. Got Questions: What is the doctrine of the perspicuity of Scripture?
  3. Emma Saying: How to pronounce perspicuity
  4. Burk Parsons: The Perspicuity of Scripture
  5. Mark D. Thompson: The Clarity of Scripture
  6. Kevin DeYoung: The Clarity of Scripture

 

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Filed under Scripture

 

From Introductory Volume to Systematic Theology by Louis Berkhof, page 167.

 

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