I’ve always understood perspicuity to be specifically about the message of salvation. Especially as it’s described in the WCF and 1689:
1.7 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 ordinary means, may attain to a sufficient understanding of them.
I’ll say the smart search is very handy for quickly finding a passage without having to remember the special operators for logos.
As a side note, you mention God’s word not being easy to understand. How do you view this with the idea of the perspicuity of scripture.
I’ve always understood perspicuity to be specifically about the message of salvation. Especially as it’s described in the WCF and 1689:
1.7 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 ordinary means, may attain to a sufficient understanding of them.