The Content Sufficiency of Scripture (Belgic Confession 7b)
Rev. Stewart examines the doctrine of Scripture's sufficiency as articulated in Belgic Confession Article 7, distinguishing between canon sufficiency (the 66 books are complete) and content sufficiency (the doctrines and ethics contained in Scripture are adequate for salvation and godliness). The article defends the Reformed principle that Scripture alone is the infallible rule of faith and practice, rejecting additions from tradition, councils, or human authority.
Rev. Angus Stewart Belgic Confession 7: The Sufficiency of the Holy Scriptures to Be the Only Rule of Faith We believe that those Holy Scriptures fully contain the will of God, and that whatsoever man ought to believe unto salvation is sufficiently taught therein. For, since the whole manner of worship which God requires of us is written in them at large, it is unlawful for any one, though an apostle, to teach otherwise than we are now taught in the Holy Scriptures; nay, though it were an...