✦ Scripture · Necessity

Unnecessary

The inner light alone suffices; Scripture is an aid, not a necessity — the position of the most radical spiritualists.

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