Among Christians, if Scripture—even in all its deducible wisdom—is insufficient to understand and address racial hatred, in a short time, following the logic, Scripture will be seen as insufficient to understand and address other matters of anthropology, for example, sexuality.
If we invite in forms of discourse and ideologies that subjugate Scripture's clarity and authority to an external construct—whether sociological, ethical, epistemological, or ideological—Scriptural authority will assuredly be overturned in time.
The danger is that no one will think they are compromising Scripture: Authority will be overturned not by outright dismissal of Scripture, but by newly implied quadrilaterals deemed essential. In every generation, the question—at least for Protestants—is Sola Scriptura.
Sola Scriptura is not fundamentalist. It does not say the Bible is the only authority, but the highest. At present, how many evangelicals are reasoning, we're veering from conversations about helpful extra-biblical insights to necessary extra-biblical insights. That's the debate.
