The Clarity of God’s Word and the Believing Reader

When we as children of God take up God's Word to read and study it, we do so by faith. God has given us His Word for this one purpose, that we might understand it, that is, that it might be to us, both as believers and as churches, the only rule of faith and life. That Word of God is clear and readily understood by the child of God. As Reformed people we confess the truth of the clarity or perspicuity of Holy Scripture. This confession has two parts to it. By it we confess first of all that as...