我认为50年来﹐因为采用了这种的假设﹐我们所得的﹐损害多过益处。今天假如我的新约研究同事们在场的话﹐可能会向我挑战。可是﹐他们不能从我所站的观点来向我挑战。
　　我是一位（系统）神学家。我以一位神学家的身分与观点来看《圣经》学者们。我需要他们（解经）的帮助。不过当他们有时在他们的圈子里﹐一些假设完全控制了他们﹐成为最核心﹐最具决定性的假设﹐令他们不能正确的解释《圣经》时﹐我会注意到。
　　一个神学家必须冒险地说﹕「只有那些在神学上已经作了功课的人﹐纔是站在山上﹐居高临下地检视整个教会生活与基督教学术世界。那些在山下埋头于他们自己专业的工作里﹐而又没有足够的神学知识让他们到山顶来看一看 – 他们常常不知道自己在作什么﹔他们常常不知道自己缺少了什么。」
　　
　　And I think we have lost more than we have gained, by taking this assumption so seriously for the last 50 years.  If my New Testament colleagues were here, they would probably challenge that.  But they wouldn’t be challenging it from the position I occupy.   I am a theologian. … And I look to the biblical scholars from my standpoint as a theologian.  I try to assess what they are doing from my standpoint as a theologian.  I want help from them.  And I do notice it, if from time to time they are so possessed by assumptions that are central and decisive in their own fraternity … – that they cannot in fact do the exegesis right, in a way that I can draw from my theology.
　　A theologian does take the risk of saying, “Look, only those who have done some theological homework do actually stand on the hill, from which you can survey the whole scene of church life and Christian study.  Those who are down on the bottom of the hill working in a particular area, and don’t know enough theology to come up the hill and look at things from the top of the hill – they don’t always realize what they are doing; they don’t always realize what they are missing.”
　　
　　你可能不赞同我的看法。可能会说﹐「嗨﹐你只不过是在将你的神学家地位自我膨胀而已。每一个人都会说﹐他所作的是最重要的啦﹗」那当然。虽然如此﹐各位朋友们﹐我还是要这样说﹐并邀请你回去好好想一下。这个（文化差异）不是天大的问题﹐虽然那些专业的解经家都会异口同声的说﹐很重要﹗…我会对他们说﹐「伙子们﹐你们看不见一些东西﹗你们在注意一些你不应该注意的事﹐采取一个次要的立场 – 因而阻止了你们 （对《圣经》） 的了解﹗你们认为这 (文化差异) 是最重要的问题﹔其实它不是如此。」
　　
　　我不是说﹐所有福音派的神学院都好像我所说的看见这点﹔因为他们并没有看见。（巴刻﹐「清教徒神学与当代教会」﹐维真学院课程录音带(1992)﹐第二讲﹕「清教徒的《圣经》观」﹐问题解答。）
　　
　　Now you may not wish to endorse that opinion.  You may say, “That’s just a theologian magnifying his office.  Everybody is going to say that what he does is the most important thing.”  Of course they are.  Nevertheless friends, I am going to say it, and invite you to go away and think about it.
　　This is not a matter of major importance, although the professional exegetes probably would one unanimous voice say that it was.  And … I would say, “Chaps, you are missing something!  You are stunting your own understanding by paying attention which you really ought not to be paying, to a position which is of secondary and minimal importance.  You are treating it as if it is a major matter, and it isn’t.”
　　
　　…I am not saying that all evangelical theological seminaries see this the way I have just said it, because they don’t.
　　(J.I. Packer, Puritan Theology for Today, Regent College course tape, 1992.  Question and answer period.)
　　
　　亲爱读者﹐你相信每段的《圣经》都有永恒﹐不变的教导 /意义吗﹖笔者再强调﹐不是你我自己对《圣经》的解释﹐乃是《圣经》本身里﹐有一套真理系统。
　　
　　巴刻在上面所强调的是﹕其实《圣经》学者常常把我们（读者）与《圣经》原来的历史文化处境之间的隔阂过份夸大。其实这个历史文化上的「建桥工程」 (bridge building) 并没有圣经学者说得那么可怕﹐那么须要专家来主持。
　　
　　以经解经﹐还是今天教会所须要依循的进路。
　　
　　
　　
　　结语
　　
　　以上所述种种华人教会的乱象，都叫信徒身处属灵上的大饥荒中，灵命饥渴受饿发昏。追根究底﹐乃因不听主耶和华的话，不听从《圣经》（《阿摩司书8:
　　11），阳奉阴违，自食恶果。《圣经》是基督徒生命与事奉的根基，根基若毁坏了，义人还能做什么呢？
　　
　　让我们在主面前一起悔改，不再效法这个世界，心意更新，回应主的呼召，归回《圣经》，重建倒塌的帐幕，修墙垣堵破口；将我们的生命事奉与教会的生活见证，重新立基在《圣经》，上帝的话—至圣的真道上。因此，我们呼吁华人教会回转，归回历代基督教会的正统信仰，特别是宗教改革领袖们的信仰，坚定认信《圣经》是上帝所默示的，是完全无谬无误的，是至高权威，是全备无缺的﹐以这个信念为基础﹐和「以经解经」为方法﹐建立一套忠于《圣经》的正统信仰！