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Denny Burk (PhD, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary [SBTS]) is professor of biblical studies at Boyce College and has served as the editor of The Journal for Biblical Manhood Womanhood. He blogs at dennyburk.com. Heath Lambert (PhD, SBTS] is executive director of the Association of Certified mostra altro Biblical Counselors and professor of biblical counseling at SBTS and Boyce College. mostra meno
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Evidence for God: 50 Arguments for Faith from the Bible, History, Philosophy, and Science (2010) — Collaboratore — 194 copie
Four Views on Hell: Second Edition (Counterpoints: Bible and Theology) (2016) — Collaboratore — 148 copie
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Lambert and Burk give excellent treatment to the prevalent notion of a normalized same sex attraction/orientation. Both authors come to this topic with a firm resolve to build their understanding from Scripture combined with compassion for others. They don't stop at the ethics of homosexuality, but contend for the necessity of doing ministry with others. They rightly debunk the false claim that same sex desire is okay so long as it is not acted upon. This lie has gripped many people and ultimately destroys any hope of change. Lambert and Burke dive into deep waters of theology in this one.
Here are a few of the better quotes:
"A person is not absolved from moral accountability for an immoral sexual desire simply because that seems to follow an enduring pattern-i.e., an orientation. The enduring nature of same-sex desire is an indication not that God approves such desire but that we are intractably sinful apart from grace...A common objection to the foregoing goes like this: "If a person cannot control whether he has same-sex attraction, how can that attraction be considered sinful?" This objection bases moral accountability upon whether one has the ability to choose his proclivities. but this is not how the Bible speaks of sin and judgment. There are all manner of predispositions that we are born with and that we experience as unchosen realities. Nevertheless, the Bible characterizes such realities as sin: pride, anger, anxiety, just to name a few." (29-30).
"Accepting sexual orientation as an identity-defining element of the human condition is foreign to Scripture-except as a feature of human sinfulness. For this reason, the term orientation may be altogether irredeemable for Christians" (37).
"First, to call same-sex orientation sinful does not make same-sex attracted people less like the rest of us...All of us bear the marks of our connection to Adam. All of us are crooked deep down. All of us have thoughts, inclinations, attitudes, and the like that are deeply antithetical to God's law. All of us need a renewal from the inside out that can come only from the grace of Christ" (58).
"We must be clear that if God gives clear commands, he will, over time and by his grace, give the strength to obey those commands" (63).
"Focusing on ethics to the exclusion of the ministry of change both reflects and provides an inaccurate picture that the Bible is all about ethical behavior and not much about how behavior can change" (81).… (altro)