:To truly discover and understand ''the sacred authors' intention,'' the reader must take into account the conditions of their particular time and culture, the literary genres in use at that time, and the modes of feeling, speaking, and narrating then current, not the meaning understood by the plain, ordinary 21st century reader. (See [[Historical-critical method (Higher criticism)]].) The reader must be especially attentive to the content and unity of the whole Bible, as having one supreme Author who cannot deceive or be deceived, speaking through inspired writers chosen by him to express the truth of God's revelation to man, "for he cannot deny himself". Any method of reading any text of the Bible which produces absurdities and contradictions is proven false by the very fact that it produces that result: "A tree is known by its fruit." It violates the principle set forth in Revelation 22:18-19. What has been called by Protestant scholars the "''perspicuity of scripture''" is obscured by an ignorantly literal reading of the "clear, plain and simple" meaning of the words of the Bible. See 2 Peter 3:14-17.
:See the following:
:*[https://theopedia.com/Perspicuity-of-Scripture Perspicuity of Scripture - Theopedia (theopedia.com)]
:*[https://www.tms.edu/m/tmsj15i.pdf Perspicuity of Scripture, Pettegrew, Professor of theology (tms.edu)]
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