[Michael Liccione’s] point is simply that if Scripture was intended by God to function as you describe, then there would be observable consequences.
Just because the “observable consequences” are not what you expect, doesn’t take anything away from the view of the Scriptures that we hold.
We are constantly told, “If the Protestant perspicuity thesis were true, then over the past five hundred years we should expect to see not an explosion of fragmentation into various Protestant sects, but a coalescing into one body of all persons who in good faith attempt to discern the meaning of Scripture.”
This is a bogus condition to place on this view of Scripture at two levels.
