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Is psychology compatible with the Bible? Is it even scientific?

Date: 5/21/2005 8:35:45 PM ( 19 y ) ... viewed 2519 times

The word psychology is based on the Greek word for soul. God is the final authority on the soul, but psychology is man’s futile attempt to find a scientific cause for bad behavior. In fact, there is not one laboratory test for any psychological disorder. And this so-called "science" is based on the teachings of such anti-Christians as Freud and Young, and ultimately on the theory of evolution.

Obviously, psychology should have no place among Christians, since the Word of God alone is sufficient for all our needs. But psychology’s "self-esteem" has become a popular phrase in churches today. Contrast this concept with what the Bible says:

Mt 16:24-25 Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If anyone wants to become my follower, he must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.

Mt 23:25 Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence."

Ac 24:25a While Paul was discussing righteousness, self-control, and the coming judgment...

Ro 2:8 but wrath and anger to those who live in selfish ambition and do not obey the truth but follow unrighteousness.

1Co 13:4-5 Love is patient, love is kind, it is not envious. Love does not brag, it is not puffed up. It is not rude, it is not self-serving, it is not easily angered or resentful.

2Co 10:12 For we would not dare to classify or compare ourselves with some of those who recommend themselves. But when they measure themselves by themselves and compare themselves with themselves, they are without understanding.

2Ti 1:7 For God did not give us a Spirit of fear but of power and love and self-control.

2Ti 3:2-3 For people will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, irreconcilable, slanderers, without self-control, savage, opposed to what is good...

2Ti 4:5 You, however, be self-controlled in all things, endure hardship, do an evangelist’s work, fulfill your ministry.

2Pe 1:5-7 For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith excellence4 to excellence, knowledge; to knowledge, self-control; to self-control, perseverance; to perseverance, godliness; to godliness, brotherly affection; to brotherly affection, unselfish love.

Do the "Christian psychologists" dare to claim that the Bible is insufficient for handling matters of the soul? After all, psychology and its programs were not even invented until the 1800s. What did people do before that? They did what we should be doing: relying on God alone.

Personality Testing

As if the heresy of self-esteem isn’t enough of a problem in the church, we also have "spiritual gift inventories" gaining in popularity. These tests are borrowed from the system of personality testing used by the world, which in turn is based on the Four Temperaments theory.

The Four Temperaments theory is an ancient system devised for understanding human nature and thereby improving the human condition, and divides people according to various personality characteristics that appear to make up their basic temperament. There are many variations to this theory, but it is simply a less detailed version of astrology’s twelve signs of the zodiac.

Astrology is the ancient Babylonian occult religion which sought to find explanations for behavior, and thereby predict behavior in individuals. It taught that man’s basic problem was not sin but an imbalance of the four temperaments. The cure was not repentance but finding a magic cure, known in the middle ages as the Philosopher’s Stone (the original name of Harry Potter’s Sorcerer’s Stone!).

Given the occult roots of personality testing, one would think no Christians would be involved in it, but this is not the case. In fact, personality testing is being touted by many prominent Christian leaders and authors. The Spiritual Gift Inventory test is nothing more than a personality test using Christian terminology. And even if the test were scientifically valid, it would never reveal spiritual gifts anyway. There are accepted scientific standards for tests of any kind, but none of the personality tests meet them. Human resource departments that have used these tests in the past have abandoned them as useless, but the tests have found new life in, of all places, the Christian community.

Since personality testing is on the same level as charting the horoscope, these psychological theories of personality are actually rival religious systems. For Christians to make use of these tests shows that they rely more on formulas and statistics than on the Spirit’s leading. It also shows great gullibility and ignorance.

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