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Merely-Useful

Natural revelation suffices for salvation; Scripture is helpful but not strictly necessary — an Arminian-rationalist tendency rejected by the Confession.

This is a contested or rejected alternative.

The Westminster baseline on Necessity is Necessary-After-The-Fall. Personas and schools listed below hold this alternative position instead — either because they argued for it at the Assembly (like the Erastians on polity) or because they represent a receiving tradition that departed from the Standards on this point.

Other positions on Necessity