Nov
06
2009
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Nov
06
2009
Mike Pohlman|8:51 AM CT
When the Bible becomes an idol.
Mike Pohlman serves as the Executive Editor with The Gospel Coalition. A former church planter and senior pastor in the Pacific Northwest, Pohlman is a Ph.D. Candidate in American church history at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, KY.
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3 Comments
Higher appreciation of all Scriptures (Jewish, Christian, Muslim, etc.) than their value as a road map to God’s self-revelation is, indeed, idolatry (Matt. 4: 5-7; John 5: 39-40; 2 Cor. 11:14-15).
[...] Posted on November 9, 2009 by R. Scott Clark Recently Mike Pohlman at the Gospel Coalition posted a link to a WSJ piece on fundamentalism including reference to the “King James Only” movement. [...]
I would rather rename the title as:
“When the physical Bible becomes more sacred than the theopneustia logos”