Last time in our confession, we affirmed that all things concerning God’s glory, man’s salvation, faith and life are expressly set down in Scripture and that nothing is to be added to scripture, not by new revelations of the Spirit or the traditions of men.
What would you say to someone that said “The bible is too hard to understand”?
There are a lot of things in the bible that I don’t understand. Even Peter said that there are things in Paul’s writings that he doesn’t understand.
However, today’s confession states that the things necessary for salvation are explicit, plain, clear-cut… The oldest of people to the youngest of people can understand, the educated and the uneducated… teens, marrieds, adults, singles, kinds… pretty much if you understand what I’m saying now, you can understand the basic message of the bible.
Believe on the Lord Jesus and you will be saved.
We are saved by Jesus Christ alone, by faith alone, through grace alone, for the glory of God alone.
God is our God and we are his people in Christ.
Believe on the finish work of Jesus Christ. Submit your life to Christ.
Those things that are necessary for salvation are clearly taught in scripture, so that even the simplest person may understand.
7. All things in Scripture are not alike plain in themselves, nor alike clear unto all: yet those things which are necessary to be known, believed, and observed for salvation, are so clearly propounded, and opened in some place of Scripture or other, that not only the learned, but the unlearned, in a due use of the ordinary means, may attain unto a sufficient understanding of them.
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