A Word from Bob
You’re reading Part 2 of a three-part blog mini-series on Cornelius Van Til and common grace. You can read Part 1 here: Van Til, Kuyper, Bavinck, and Biblical Counselors: An Assessment. You can read Part 2 here: Cornelius Van Til on Common Grace: In His Own Words.
Of Zombies and the Trojan Horse of Common Grace
In May of 2024, Heath Lambert began a series of podcasts on zombie-infected biblical counselors. You can find one of my responses to Heath’s posts here: Engaging Publicly with Heath Lambert’s Public Writings: Part 2: Hearing Heath.
It is Heath’s contention that many in the modern biblical counseling movement have been “infected” by the “zombie virus” of secular psychology. In a later podcast, Heath sought to connect his “zombie” imagery to the language of Ephesians 2, where the unsaved are pictured as dead in sin, and the language of Ephesians 4, where unsaved thinking is pictured as darkened understanding. Throughout his series of podcasts, Heath and his colleagues at First Baptist Church Jacksonville claimed that some biblical counselors were smuggling secular psychology into the church through the Trojan Horse of a false application of the doctrine of common grace.
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