clarity of scripture doesn't uphold the Trinity
Posted: Sun May 19, 2019 3:36 pm
the protestant doctrine of the perspicuity of scripture is stated in the Westminsterperspicuity confession of faith as follows
“All things in Scripture are not alike plain in themselves, nor alike clear unto all. Yet, those things that are necessary to be known, believed, and observed for salvation are so clearly propounded, and opened in some place of Scripture or another, that not only the learned, but the unlearned, in a due use of the ordinary means, may attain unto a sufficient understanding of them” (1.7)
By this very standard, you would have to conclude that the Trinity is not necessary for salvation.
So how do you protestants who are Trinitarians, uphold the necessity of the Trinity as a measure of orthodoxy whole still maintaining the doctrine of the clarity of scripture?
Thanks
“All things in Scripture are not alike plain in themselves, nor alike clear unto all. Yet, those things that are necessary to be known, believed, and observed for salvation are so clearly propounded, and opened in some place of Scripture or another, that not only the learned, but the unlearned, in a due use of the ordinary means, may attain unto a sufficient understanding of them” (1.7)
By this very standard, you would have to conclude that the Trinity is not necessary for salvation.
So how do you protestants who are Trinitarians, uphold the necessity of the Trinity as a measure of orthodoxy whole still maintaining the doctrine of the clarity of scripture?
Thanks