My favorite seminary president delivers a body blow to practices of old school hyperfundamentalism and others who love to say "my way or the highway." I have, alas, seen many places where the Word of God was subordinate to the doctrines of men--let us never think that the Pharisees were the only people who ever subordinated the written Torah to the oral one. Notably, Dr. Bauder is one who grew up in fundamentalism and loves it dearly--there is little more grievous to his heart than the "assassinations" too often found in this camp.
It is also worth noting that our Lord said that the gates of Hell, not the battering rams of the evil one, would be the thing that would not withstand the onslaught of the Church. In a manner of speaking, God's army protects its walls with men, like the old boast of the Swedes (under Gustavus Adolphus, if I remember right), not its men with walls.
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