Gordon H. Clark: Quote of the Day - God and Logic

Gordon H. Clark sounding the trumpet.

Is it not strange that these days Charismatics and Pentecostals and various other miscreants in the Evangelical movement disparage logic and that they disparage the Scriptures as a "paper pope"? Could it be that the source of such thinking is liberal or neo-orthodox theology?

In this may be anticipated the relation of logic to the Scripture. First of all, Scripture, the written words of the Bible, is the mind of God. What is said in Scripture is God’s thought. In contemporary religious polemics, the Biblical view of the Bible, the historic position of the Reformation, or-what is the same thing-the doctrine of plenary and verbal inspiration is castigated as Bibliolatry. The liberals accuse the Lutherans and Calvinists of worshipping a book instead of worshipping God. Apparently they think that we genuflect to the Bible on the pulpit, and they deride us for kissing the ring of a paper pope.

This caricature stems from their materialistic turn of mind-a materialism that may not be apparent in other discussions-but which comes to the surface when they direct their fire against fundamentalism. They think of the Bible as a material book with paper contents and a leather binding. That the contents are the thoughts of God, expressed in God’s own words, is a position to which they are so invincibly antagonistic that they cannot even admit it to be the position of a fundamentalist.    Gordon H. Clark

The Trinity Foundation - God and Logic