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Monday on this second day of November

2020, the day before election day.

And I'm thrilled to have back as a returning guest on Iron Sharpens Iron Radio, Dr. Owen Strand,

there's one thing that I know that my dear friend of many years Dr. James R. White of Alpha

Omega Ministries does not know, as brilliant as he is, the one thing that I know that he does not know is

how to pronounce Dr. Owen Strand's last name.

It's not straken or stracken, it's Strand, and he is associate professor of Christian theology,

director of the Center for Public Theology, and director for the residency PhD program at

Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.

And today we're going to be addressing his new book, Re -Enchanting Humanity, A Theology of

Mankind.

And it's my honor and privilege to welcome you back to Iron Sharpens Iron Radio,.

Dr. Owen Strand.

Thank you so much, Chris.

It's great to be back with you, and I especially give you credit, not merely for standing for the truth.

Well, that was just like Barack Obama

and Joe Biden's efforts to quell the pandemic.

When they were in office.

It was all by accident.

I appreciate that very much.

And I'm going to give.

Our listeners our email address right away in case they want to join us on the air with a question of

their own.

It's chrisarnsen at gmail .com, C -H -R -I -S -A -R -N -Z -E -N at gmail

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Please give us your first name at least, your city and state of residence, and your country of

residence if you live outside the USA.

And please only remain anonymous if your question involves a personal and private matter.

Before we go into the details of your book, tell us about.

Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.

Yeah, Midwest is out

there, attributable to...

Yes, he's been on the program.

I'm sure.

Yes, he's also been on the show.

Yeah, I'm sure.

Yes, it's a shame when many institutions resort

to not remaining faithful in order to keep the lights on.

At least that's what they think will happen.

And I'm glad that your seminary is doing both, remaining

faithful and keeping the lights on.

And if anybody wants to find out more about this seminary, go to mbts

.edu, mbts .edu.

And this is a fascinating title of your new book, Re -Enchanting Humanity, A

Theology of Mankind.

I know that people can still be heretics if

they have an authentic and biblically accurate theology of God,

and yet have a poor or unbiblical theology of

mankind.

Why is having an accurate, a biblically faithful theology of mankind

just as important as knowing who God truly is from the scriptures?

Mankind is the

crown of

God's

creation and a

woman

looking

at

an enchantment when

you

take her equally.

Well, I'm

assuming one

of the

reasons that you

found a

need to

write this

book.

Was because that there have been books prior to you written by

very capable men in years past who covered a

theology of mankind in detail, but there are views of

mankind today that didn't even exist, some of them even a

decade ago or longer.

But if you could tell us in your own words why you felt that this book was a needed

addition to the volumes.

In our

libraries.

And yet I

did

perform

tradition

at the same time

that I want

we

need

to be.

Now tell us about the actual title, Re -Enchanting Humanity.

It's kind of humorous that whenever I type your title into my computer,

my computer is telling me that I'm misspelling it.

This is such a rarely used word, I'm assuming.

But tell us about Re -Enchanting Humanity.

Yeah, that's

that's on you

might

get me

or you might

get

something.

He used

the

agree with

tale

affirmation

on the

of

the

modern

anthropological

coin, our

personal

authentic.

Essentially, in

some form in when we're talking about re -enchanting the human

person, we are talking about recovering a biblical.

And in that understanding, the most important truth we can

discover is not our authentic understanding of who we

are, haven't

talked

about sex and sexual ethics, for

example, we.

Yeah, well, three of

the issues that immediately come to mind.

That have radically changed in the last decade, and even less, some of them just

within the last few years.

But transgenderism, homosexuality, and the advancements of technology.

Now, obviously, homosexuality has been around for 1000s of years, which is why it is

cited in the scriptures as something that is a damnable sin and an

abnormality, a unnatural thing.

And so obviously, I'm not saying that homosexuality

has only existed for the last decade.

But the way that humans are in mass

responding to this issue has radically changed.

And lest we forget, Bill and Hillary Clinton and

Barack Obama originally were all opposed to same sex marriage, for instance.

Now, they are all gung ho in favor of it.

And of course, Joe Biden is as well.

And he was actually the one that outed, pardon the pun, Barack Obama

for stating publicly before Barack Obama did that,

that they were both on the same page in affirming same sex marriage.

But tell us why this is a book that

is quite vital in this day and age because of those things that I just mentioned.

And of course, you can illustrate.

Your own examples as well.

Should I think about this?

Should I think

about this one?

There sure is a lot,

actually, underneath your

sleeve.

You see

a weed pop

up here, and

you see another one.

And you

can't

usually just pluck

when you're dealing with weeds that have

neo

meaning

new

and then everyone

else's role looking at the latest.

Yeah, I've even interviewed

him on

that very

subject.

I am I because I know

you're on.

And Peter Jones

in a number of books, so

I pick up

you thought we were on today.

Look at it now.

When you're looking at these issues, when

you're looking at

that's a neo

pagan.

Now, one of the things that when it comes to transgenderism,.

Which is a very confusing issue, because it's it even confuses

those within the so called LBGT community, they are not always on the same

page in agreement over that issue.

You have homosexuals, even that are protesting some of the things that are being

demanded by those who identify as transgendered.

One example, it's on the news fairly often,

is the insistence that men who believe they are women, be able to

compete with biological women and sporting events in high

schools and colleges, and in the Olympics, and we could go on and on.

One of the things that has been brought up as a defense of this being something

that we should appease those who claim to be transgendered

is that is the very rare instances of physical

deformity where you may have somebody who is born with both genitalia, both male

and female.

But if you could, how do you approach this as a Christian?

When you know, most of us are not scientists, we could not go into detail any

kind of a response to those kinds of claims, but as a Christian, how do we respond to those

claims that we must allow people to pursue

identifying themselves as the gender of their choice, because these things have happened

in nature, and therefore we should not discount them as being an authentic

phenomenon.

The claim now is being in

need of

being

changed.

You

see the

Oracle Eve

in

Genesis

3, 1 through 30.

One

of

those,

it's

not

a positive, a

tiny

baby

that

is

not

present.

We can,

to

identify the genetic

code on female

genitalia,

we're not

born

or female, but like

everything in

a fallen world

design,

with strong guns, we face those circumstances.

Well, we have to go to our first.

Station break.

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This is Chris Arnzen, and if you just tuned us in, our guest today for the entire program is Dr. Owen

Strand, Associate Professor of Christian Theology, Director of the Center for Public

Theology, and Director of the Residency PhD Program at Midwestern Baptist

Theological Seminary.

We are addressing Dr. Strand's new book, Re -Enchanting Humanity, A Theology of Mankind.

Our email address is chrisarnzen at gmail .com.

Chrisarnzen at gmail .com.

We do have a listener who is remaining anonymous, and the listener

says, I have been having conflicting arguments and

relationships in my own family over the issue of homosexuality.

I am the only Christian in the family, and one of the things that I

have been told by even my conservative Christian friends is that I should not be

referring to the homosexual community with my liberal family

as homosexuals, because that is saying that these are

actually a people group when in reality homosexuality is a sin and an activity.

It's not a kind of person.

Do you agree with my conservative Christian friends who say that I am in error in

the way I'm communicating?

9 -11, it is clear gay

orientation,

my

natural

patterns.

What we

need

to say

in

all of

this

is not to

identify

me

with

anything.

It doesn't mean you have a

positive, however you

precisely

remake

you from my

identity

as

in

Jesus.

Now that brings up another issue that there is disagreement

over even in conservative Christian circles and even in the

theological circles that you and I would most closely identify with.

That is, will God and does God

permit one of his elect who he has regenerated, who he has given new

birth, new life, who he has made a new creation in Christ, will he

allow that person to remain in a state as unnatural as being

drawn sexually to the same sex in perpetuity, perhaps for decades,

until they depart this earth?

There are differences of opinion.

There are some who say they could understand a person occasionally having

a struggle or battle with it, but if it's an ongoing oppressive

desire that never ceases, they would question that person's regeneration.

There are other people who are even pastors who have written books and who claim to be evangelical

who will actually call themselves gay Christian.

Now I think that you and I would disagree with that terminology.

First of all, I don't even like to use the word gay because it's putting a smiley

face on an abomination.

It's giving a label to something that is actually a wonderful word.

It used to be a wonderful word, gay.

Even Dean Martin sang about it, and that's amore, but he didn't mean

what people mean by it today.

Basically, the point I'm making is, is it a reality that regenerate people remain

especially solely and exclusively with the same sex attraction for the rest of their lives?

Yeah, with a thousand.

Anytime, anytime you could answer a theology question with that clause, you do.

You have to.

We need to

recognize,

to

break, I'm

this

kind of, and yet

this is

not a,

that is

not a good

Corinthians 6.

Amen.

I don't even want

that sin from

birth.

Perhaps it wasn't a chosen matter.

Well, who knows where these sinful instincts of various kinds came from?

But the point is, they were his

grace, and he saved what you used to be.

That's not what you are anymore.

That was me speaking.

Then there's a second.

I don't claim,

and yet,

and yet, elders

don't want

to commit

many

men who

are married.

What we

need to

make

sure,

ungodly desire.

We are never saying, we are never making

excuses, kind of,

they need to

repent

of

any ungodly, and

yet they may

be one.

Some

people,

if I can

swim

for a long

time, other people

battle that problem until the day they die.

There's just different levels of experience here, and further, different levels upon

the Holy Spirit.

Excellent, and I

do want to follow

up on that

with a

couple.

More questions, and we'll do so after this midway break.

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Theology of Mankind, his latest book.

And Owen, I'm assuming you're still with us.

Owen, one of the things I wanted to say in response to your excellent

answer, I wanted to have you clarify something, however, because

I happen to be in disagreement with something that has been occurring

within the body of Christ, even amongst theologically conservative and Reformed Christians.

They very often will equate the

sin of homosexuality with the sin of heterosexual

lust and so on, or heterosexual adultery.

Now, I agree that they are all on the same level in that they

all send the unrepentant to hell.

If they're not covered with the blood of Christ, if they do not repent, whether they are homosexual or

heterosexual, whatever the sin may be, they will go to hell.

However, on this earth, I think that there are different ramifications to these sins.

One is clearly an unnatural sin.

It defies not only the law of God, but biology, defies nature.

And the other, the sins involving heterosexual lust and

heterosexual sin are the abuse of, and

actually, like for instance, God gave us a gift, a beautiful gift, to be attracted to the opposite sex,

which is why one of the reasons we are motivated to be married and so on, and to procreate.

Whereas homosexuality is not just another

sexual sin, equally in its damaging effects.

And where this is, this kind of equating with sin

has recently come up, is there has been big controversy over John

Piper's comments that appear to have equated the arrogance

and vulgarity and boastfulness of Donald Trump with those that

aggressively and gleefully promise in the political arena to broaden

the reasons and legal rights of women to murder their children in the womb, and so on.

And I have heard some excellent responses to that mindset, that sin is not sin is not sin, that old saying, sin is sin is

sin, that there are differences, and there are different.

Ramifications.

So

if you could

respond

to what I

just said.

And yet, I do

think we

may desire

even something, behavior in those,

you know,

even

heterosexuals,

that may,

again,

for various,

a few

months

ago, is

not

appropriate.

I hear you critique, and

we become what is sometimes, but it is that

to what God has won,

25 to 30, what we pursue with

glee.

Now,

in point of fact, plan,

unnatural

life, nature, that

doesn't necessarily mean that everybody who gets,

automatically gets,

not

everybody who,

everyone who,

typical woman for God.

Amen.

And one of the things, and I'll move on to another subject, but one of the things that disturbs me

about the gay Christian concept, those that say,

I am not heterosexual, but I identify as gay, and I do

battle daily with homosexual desires, but

I am celibate, and I will remain celibate as long as

God gives me the strength, because I believe to have any sexual relationships

outside of marriage, which would only be between a man and a woman, is sinful.

Now, I disagree with the concept that this person has already waved the white flag

and said, basically, God, I've given up on God's ability to transform me and change me.

It seems that they have just given up.

And that really disturbs me.

Yes, I don't think that coming

to Christ

is

automatically

going to

be, but I'm

never going.

What I want to say to

people

is that God makes us a new creation

in the moment of regeneration unto conversion.

We need to

understand and do

whatever He desires, and there may be a qualifying

instinct that He then gives you.

There's not a one -size

-fit -they -now -want -to,

do -not -have -a -call -to -marriage, but we can't ourselves...

Amen.

Well, we have a listener in western Suffolk County, Long Island,

New York, named Christopher.

And Christopher asks, when it comes to the aberrant views that Christians

have of anthropology, I think that many of the sins of

secular society and misunderstandings and aberrations of thought that

secular society embrace actually flow from even Christian misunderstandings of anthropology.

And I would include those who are outside of Reformed theology.

I am not saying that Reformed people have everything perfect.

I'm not saying that those who are Arminians and others who are outside of the Calvinist camp have everything

wrong.

But I think there are crucial issues involving the sin of man, where, to give you an

example, we who are Reformed believe in the doctrine of total depravity, whereas

those outside of our camp appear to believe in something akin to.

Man being very sick, but not spiritually dead.

And if you could comment.

I've seen that.

Interestingly, though,

honestly...

Yes, the

Presbyterian

denomination, PCA.

I have a lot.

Of friends in the PCA, and I interview a lot of PCA folk, but that seems to be where a lot of it is coming from.

And even my friends in the Presbyterian church in America are the first.

To admit that and to be angry about it.

Yeah, that's been very surprising.

For a lot

of us, the more you

are going to be cued to formulation, that

I need to be...

I do think...

...or

neo

-pagan

problem,

Chris,

honestly,

on

these

counts today.

Yes, and not to sound like I'm being overly boastful about the Reformed faith, but

usually it's when I have encountered Reformed people who are buying into this

ideas of the spirit of the age, they are actually contradicting or abandoning,

even if it's unconsciously, the roots of what it.

Means to be Reformed.

I've seen this happen.

I think that we're

in a

new

Christian... ...and

others

come from...

...over

the

years...

...competitive here... ...is not

enough.

You have to be...

And

guess

what?

Lots of denominations.

Amen.

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Can you please explain how you can be ever in existence there

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Views that you've been stating?

That's a good question.

I have in the past,

earlier

about NASB, with

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privy

to

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We have BB in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, who asks, can you please

list some more of the aberrant views that otherwise Orthodox Christians

have about anthropology?

And of course, assuming she doesn't, or he, I don't know if BB is a man or a woman,

I'm assuming BB doesn't mean Eastern Orthodox.

By saying Orthodox, but just biblically sound, but if you could.

I'm sorry, I think I missed.

The question.

Listing some other aberrancies that are common amongst otherwise biblically.

Sound

Christians.

On the doctrine

of anthropology?

Yes.

Yeah, I

mean, a

number of

wedded and many

silicon, many

of us are

already in

danger.

So if you

are checking, already

living, and if you can't have,

what

I mean by that is

you are

not able

technology and need to

recognize matters

regarding

the

person

of Christ.

Many people

in Christ in

these

terms, and

yet

suffice

it to say the Reformed world have

argued

in the last

year, never had in

any

kind of.

Yes.

I

think

that many.

Christians who have confusion or even heretical concepts about

Christ being tempted in all ways as we have, they use the term

tempt or tempted in a way that is commonly used,

perhaps even most commonly used in our day and age, when that means you're mulling something over in

your mind.

You know, you're considering and you're being aroused by the

notion of something that is sinful, and you're mulling it over in your mind, and whether you acquiesce

and bring that thought to fruition, or if you just keep it in your head, that's what they think

tempted is, and they think.

That that's what, unfortunately, they think that's what Jesus was doing.

That's exactly right, Chris, but I recognize that

there are

times where

we, even as

we had no

internal,

but he

definitely,

sometimes people,

what we need

to say

very, he felt

fully,

whereas

we give in at, I

don't know,.

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Well, I want you now to have five minutes of uninterrupted time where you can summarize

what you most want etched in the hearts and minds of.

Our listeners

today.

I think I want

our

listeners

simply trying to get us to stop.

God wants to redeem our entire being

enslaved.

What we

need to

recognize is we're not redeemed.

We're not

in the image of Christ, so we are all fully an image

-bearer

made in God's image.

Hold steady as

the

ontology.

That means, then, that when you are looking

tiny, and

when

you go to a

nursing home,

there's a

beloved family member, and again, we've

lost the

imago Dei,

defining

the

human

117 of God, even in the

post.

Now, we

need to

affirm as Christians,

along the lines of our gospel can

help

freeze

us from

being

oriented.

It's not

that

the one degree in

318 is not a return

to Eden,

but we

often talk.

We need not simply to know that we're an image -bearer.

That's extremely important, and knowing that, but we actually need

now to be remade in the image of Jesus.

Amen, and

by the way,

folks, because our guest, Owen Strand, mentioned something related.

To this book, if you look up on the Iron Sharpens Iron Radio website in the archive,

and you type in the name David Herbert, I interviewed David some time ago on his book, Becoming

God, Transhumanism, and the Quest for Cybernetic Immortality.

You might find that interesting.

Owen Strand, can you please give our listeners any contact information you care to share?

Yeah, probably the best place to go would be my

Twitter

account, which

I...

And the Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary is

mbts .edu, right?

Mbts .edu, that's exactly right, and

I want to send mbts .edu.

Great, well, Owen, I definitely want to have you back in the program again very soon, and I'll send you an email with a list of dates

where we can get you scheduled again, if you are willing, and of course, if God is willing.

You are very kind.

Thank you so much for having me on and for your great...

Thank you, brother, and folks, please don't go away, because Owen had to leave a little early today

to meet with family during an important event that they are involved in,

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