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Originally Posted by armourbearer  Quote:
Originally Posted by JohnOwen007 However, I questioned you about the clarity of Scripture itself. You claimed Scripture was an "unintelligible mystery" without confessions. Do you really believe this? It is a contradiction of the classic reformation teaching on the clarity of Scripture. | As answered previously, you are using the normed norm to question my statement, which only goes to proves my point. Scripture is not some nebulous stuff which changes with the wind. It possesses meaning. The normed norm tells us what that meaning is, so that Scripture isn't wrapped up in unintelligible mystery. |
Matthew,
Doesn't your statement beg the question in a similar way? If Scripture is "wrapped up in an unintelligible mystery" how can we even
arrive at a normed norm? Scripture must be
ipso facto an intelligible non-mystery in order to compile a normed norm.