A thought here triggered in a different thread–
This is something more pertinent to a different thread, but the Westminster Confession makes a valuable point:
Nevertheless we acknowledge the inward illumination of the Spirit of God to be necessary for the saving understanding of such things as are revealed in the Word
It doesn’t say that those without any inward illumination can’t understand the scriptures, it only says that theirs will not be a saving understanding.
I suppose I ought to post this over in that other thread.