Article Six (part 2): Of the Sufficiency of the Holy Scriptures for Salvation

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[Stand Firm] 30 Sep 2008--Many Pharisees and the teachers of the law assumed that their encyclopedic knowledge of scripture equated to salvific knowledge of God. But though they knew, cognitively speaking, the Law and the Prophets, they remained blind to the One who fulfilled both. “You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life” Jesus told them, “and it is they that bear witness about me” (John 5:39) It is quite possible to memorize large swaths of scripture and never find Jesus. The bible is not the narrow path. The bible is the map that shows us how to find it. Deep love for and extensive study of scripture is good and right for it represents God's self-disclosure, his perfect law, his perfect word. But we cannot forget that the bible reveals the Revealer. Its purpose is to reveal God’s nature and character and to conform us to his Son Jesus Christ.