{"id":74723,"date":"2024-04-06T11:41:53","date_gmt":"2024-04-06T16:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=74723"},"modified":"2024-04-06T11:54:49","modified_gmt":"2024-04-06T16:54:49","slug":"biblical-counseling-and-the-co-belligerent-use-of-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=74723","title":{"rendered":"Biblical Counseling and the \u201cCo-Belligerent\u201d Use of Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As biblical counselors, we have something of a checkered history with research. For more about what I mean by that, you can read my blog post <em><a href=\"https:\/\/rpmministries.org\/2022\/09\/biblical-counseling-and-scientific-research\/\">Biblical Counseling and Scientific Research<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>As biblical counselors, we will sometimes say,<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cI quote from research. Here\u2019s an example!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But read the examples closely and you\u2019ll note that often we are quoting <em>a secular researcher <strong>debunking<\/strong>\u00a0another secular researcher<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a label for doing this:\u00a0<em>the co-belligerent use of research<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>  We <em>wage war<\/em> against a common enemy by quoting those who we might otherwise disagree with. It follows the adage: <em>\u201cthe enemy of my enemy is my friend.\u201d<\/em> For example, a biblical counselor who is anti-DSM would only quote secular psychiatrists who were also anti-DSM.   Put another way, we can be prone toward only quoting secular research that is negative about secular research!   Or, put yet another way, we can have a tendency only to quote research that seems to agree with our preconceptions.  <strong>The Noetic Effect of Sin<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>As biblical counselors, we talk about the noetic effect of sin on the mind of an unsaved researcher\u2014because they are not regenerate, their conclusions are negatively impacted.<\/p>\n<p>My question:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">But shouldn\u2019t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As biblical counselors, we have something of a checkered history with research. What is a biblical approach?<br \/>\nThe post Biblical Counseling and the \u201cCo-Belligerent\u201d Use of Research appeared first on RPM Ministries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":74732,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[5837,3803],"class_list":["post-74723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rpm-ministries-bob-kellemen","tag-co-belligerent","tag-research","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Co-Belligerent-Research-7.jpg?fit=768%2C512&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74723"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74733,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74723\/revisions\/74733"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/74732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}