Christian Faith and Helping Exam 1

Abolition of Man Main Assertions

**Assault on Truth, Teachers/Educators Should Inculcate Truth, Men without chests**

Assault on truth

The Green Book, and those like it, lead to a subversion of truth

**Teachers/Educators Should Inculcate Truth**

Students need to be taught/trained there is  objective truth and values

Men without chests

This is the consequence of such texts/beliefs as The Green Book

Aim of educators

Irrigate deserts: better to train someone to have right passions than to only teach them to avoid wrong ones

Education inherently teaches us to like/dislike

What does Lewis fear is being done to the boy?

the loss of right/wrong distinction (disintegration of truth) and the succumbing to an assumption that all values are subjective – without even knowing there is a debate to be had

Trousered ape

We become reduced to materialism

Ornate affections

every object accorded the degree of affection that is appropriate/ just sentiments

Inornate affections

Unhealthy levels of intense affections

Reasonable emotions

Objects elicit (or demand) a certain response

Unreasonable emotions

Accurately describing something with hidden intentions of self gain

The Tao

A view that certain attitudes are true and others not – first principles of the universe

Old way of education

Mentoring, enhance value

New way of education

Using students to further opinion/objective. Agenda abuse

Jordan Peterson's perspective

Live as if there is a God, act it out

Claims you can’t say you believe in God when they examine the way they live

To claim you believe in God, you must live it out fully, an unbearable task, a lot to manage properly

To acceptance existence and act properly (i.e Christian-like), that’s what it means to believe

unless you act out, be careful of claiming it

if you were capable of believing it would be a transfiguring event

Worldview

•**Everyone has one (explicit or implicit)**

•**All require some element of faith**

•**Help interpret “facts” (make sense of the world)**

•**Better awareness helps to be more objective**

Four questions

Where are we-Nature of reality

Who are we-Nature of humans

What’s wrong- Nature of evil/brokenness

What’s the melody-Path from brokenness to wholeness

Four Christian doctrines that refute the probability problem of suffering and evil

1. The chief purpose of life is not happiness, it is to know God.
2. Mankind is in a state of rebellion against God and His purpose
3. God’s purpose isn’t restricted to this life but spills over beyond the grave into eternal life.
4. Knowledge of God is an incomparable good

the five views of integration

Levels of explanation, Integration, Christian, Transformational, Biblical counseling

Levels of explanation (**A biopsychosocialspiritual & evidence–based model)**

•Science and Christianity point to a need for:

•Humility

•Awareness of fallibility

•Science often supports Biblical & theological values

•Occasionally, science challenges traditional Christian views/understanding

Intergration

•Begins with a Christian understanding of the human condition

•Interpretation of scripture can include human error

•Science is value-laden

•Social science can be helpful

Christian

•Should study other Christian counselors

•Helping as viewed through scripture or Christian historical sources

•modern social science has value

•Jesus is the standard of a whole and healthy human

•Counselor must be self-aware and engage in “becoming like Christ”

•can then glean from secular theories, techniques, & skills

•engages in research

•enters into “therapeutic alliance” – listening, waiting, discerning

•brings to the consulting room the mind of Christ

**Transformational**

•Spiritual development of the counselor is imperative

•Benefits of living more moments of one’s life in Christ

•Biblical view of the person

•Let the realities of the client dictate the method of study

Biblical Counseling

\n Counseling flows from scripture to practical life application

Rejects medical model completely (e.g. no DSM diagnosis)

Counselor should reflect Christ overtly

Only in Christ can true change occur

God has given spiritual resources (e.g. Holy Spirit)

Hermeneutical Spiral

We always come to the world…with our faith...wherever we got it, however good or bad it is...This worldview faith strongly affects what we perceive... But the world is not a totally passive or subjective thing. We run the risk of coming away from any encounter with the world with our faith and our categories somewhat altered

Christian worldview of the Ultimate Good

Know who you are in Christ

Understand your purpose and grow in it

Short answer- Logical problem of suffering and evil

If God is willing to prevent evil but not able, then He is not all powerful

If He is able to prevent evil but not willing, then He is not good

But if He is both willing and able, how can evil exist?

If He is neither able nor willing, why call Him God

Short answer- The main idea of the probability of suffering

Suffering provides empirical evidence that God’s existence is highly unlikely

Short answer- The three points Christians use to refute probability of suffering

1. We’re not in a position to say God probably lacks reasons for allowing suffering in the world- we are limited, and God is unlimited
2. Relative to the full scope of the evidence, God’s existence may well be probable
3. Christianity entails doctrines that increase the probability of the co-existence of God and suffering