Sunday, June 21, 2026

A Short Reply to a Long Article on Perspicuity

 I recently made a video on my YouTube channel about the Protestant doctrine of Perspicuity.  In brief, the doctrine of perspicuity asserts that the text of the Bible is clear enough that normal, competent, well-meaning people should be able to read the text and come to the correct conclusion about what the Bible is trying to assert - at least on the important/core doctrines of the faith.

Yesterday I saw that the Lutheran apologist Javier Perdomo wrote a Substack post defending perspicuity, so I gave it a look.  The following is a partial critique.