Psychology is an academic discipline that deals with the scientific study of mental processes and behavior, as well as the application of this knowledge to different spheres of human activity. Psychology is a humanities science. Humanism affirms human worth and dignity based on the ability to know right and wrong, and invokes universal human traits, especially rationality. Humanism denies non-reason-based faith, supernatural phenomena, and the Bible. So psychology is a way of man trying to understand and improve his mental and spiritual side but without recognizing spirituality.
Secular psychology is primarily based on the teachings of Sigmund Freud, Karl Jung, and Karl Rogers. Sigmund Freud is a man regarded as an authority in psychology and the “father” of psychoanalysis. He considered religion to be an illusion and insisted that it was a fanatical structure from which one must be liberated in order to reach maturity. This means that the main aim of this science is to support atheism, through the assumption that one can be fully spiritually sound regardless of the circumstances surrounding it.
Aaron T. Beck is considered the “father” of cognitive therapy, who believed that many depressed patients have recurrent negative thoughts and that as long as they believe in their truthfulness, they will be depressed and have to change their mindset if they wish to stop being in the same state of depression, neither offering a way out, nor guaranteeing recovery if negative thoughts are replaced by less negative ones. Furthermore, the highly influential and well-known psychologist, Philip Zimbardo, former president of the American Association of Psychologists, is noted for his experiment by the Stanford Prison Trial, which he described in the equally popular work, The Lucifer Effect.
If we consider the origin of the word psychology (Greek: psyche – soul; logos – word, science), we will conclude that it claims to treat the human soul, even though psychology cannot answer the question of what the soul is or how it came into being. However, if you go to a psychologist, he or she will be concerned with your personality, trying to notice the symptoms, psychic phenomena, as soon as possible, which will keep you in psychotherapy sessions for as long as possible, without considering it as bad. If you mention that you believe in God, or that you have a sense of conscience, you will be described by psychotherapists as infantile, neurotic, and the like. “But their thinking became vain, and their unreasonable hearts were darkened.” (Romans 1:21)
In addition, the connection between the modern psychotherapy and the pharmaceutical industry, whose products (legalized drugs) treat a whole range of suspected diagnosed diseases (real or even invented), should be mentioned. In this way, the patient usually becomes a lifelong addict of “medicines” that further open up a variety of counter indications and other diseases.
The Bible, however, says that humanity had a different beginning than all other creatures. Man was created in the image of God from the earthly elements, and it was only when God breathed life into him that he became a living soul (Genesis 1:26; 2: 7). The Bible essentially addresses man’s spirituality, beginning with the fall into sin and its aftermath, and pays particular attention to man’s relationship with God. It is sin that separates us from God, and that is why we need a Redeemer to renew that relationship.
Secular psychology, on the other hand, is based on the idea that man is intrinsically good and that he must find the answers to his problems. With the help of psychotherapy treatments, the patient enters the maze of his mind and “works” on his emotions to find the cause of his problems. However, the Bible gives a completely different picture of the human condition. According to the Bible, man is dead in his sins (Ephesians 2: 1) and his heart is deceived and above all perverted (Jeremiah 17: 9). It is a sacrifice of total irreversible perversion (Romans 3: 10-23). Digging in such a mind to find mental health is a futile job, as if you were looking for a rose in a septic tank. Through various psychological tricks and irrational convictions, one may be somewhat impelled by the illusion that his condition is much better than it is, but his underlying problems and causes of the fallen state are not even remotely resolved. Psychology, like other branches of modern medicine, deals with the symptoms of the disease and tries to camouflage them, but is powerless to eliminate the causes.
Psychotherapy is based on human needs. They are dominated by confidence, love, acceptance and a sense of worth. People are considered to be happy, good and moral when those needs are met and when they are not, they are unhappy, hateful and immoral. Scripture, on the other hand, teaches that God is the one who changes our aspirations and that true happiness comes only when one yearns for God. People seeking self-esteem, love and value may be happy if they find it, but will remain focused only on themselves. But that is why people who strive for God, his wisdom and glory are satisfied, happy, obedient and helpful in their work for God.
The goal of psychology is to never know the truth about God and salvation offered to us through Jesus Christ. The psychologist aims to raise your self-esteem, selfish motives, give you an identity if you say you feel alienated, offer you a sense of inner peace, and of course take the title of someone who “saved” you without considering you to be an infantile person , because you have accepted the teachings of psychologists.
Modern psychology, in fact, concretises the separation of man from God and distracts him from what is his urgent need. Therefore, one can reasonably doubt the motives of the ideological creators of psychology, in the same way as the dubious initiators of atheism who themselves were clearly not atheists but satanists.
A psychologist is a person who will not hesitate to send you to a “madhouse” if you put your hopes in God. He will even neglect the fact that Jesus is a historical figure, he will not open the Bible to see what kind of conviction a person has. In doing so, they will think he is doing a humane act and he is sorry that you are such a unreasonable patient. Accommodation in a mental health facility will certainly happen if the patient reports symptoms of demon possession, whether or not he knows what the real cause of the problem is.
When a sinner comes to a secular psychologist to meet his needs and find joy, confidence, and fulfillment, he will not leave this counseling happy. Jesus says we must die to ourselves and be born again. We should reject the old nature, not unsuccessfully repair it, and train the new nature that lives in Christ and Christ in it.
It is important to know that man is made sinless, which implies perfect harmony of all aspects of personality, but is deceived to rebel against God, separated from the Creator, the source of Life. Adam’s sin changed him and his entire offspring, bringing about physical and spiritual death (Genesis 2:17; 5: 5; Romans 5:12; Ephesians 2: 1). The solution to man’s spiritual problems is to accept God’s plan of salvation, which entails a new birth, that is, a spiritual revival (John 3: 3, 6: 7; 1 Peter 1:23). One begins again when one believes in Jesus Christ, the second Adam, and the Father of humanity on a greater level than Adam, who, as the new general Man, brings life. This gift is accepted by a particular faith defined by God Himself that permeates all aspects of the human being until the final fulfillment of all the promises of God given to man. God’s solution is therefore a lasting answer to all man’s problems.
The only cure for ill and broken brain
The psychologist cannot give solace to the problem of a broken brain, because it is a person who has the same or similar problems as ourselves. The psychologist knows the problem ie only its external definition but not the composition (cause) or solution of the problem. We can only get comfort from someone who can remedy a problem, give us relief, inner peace and a solution to all problems, and that is God. Only if we ask for it, even in the process of getting rid of the problem, we will be a passive recipient of comfort.
“For just as we share abundantly in the sufferings of Christ, so also our comfort abounds through Christ.” (2 Corinthians 1: 5)
This is my comfort in my affliction, that your promise gives me life.
The insolent utterly deride me, but I do not turn away from your law.
When I think of your rules from of old. I take comfort, O Lord. (Psalm 119: 50-52)
“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened. Which of you, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake? If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!” (Matthew 7: 7-11)
The needs of someone who goes to psychotherapy is to find out what the problem is with him and to tell the psychologist what is actually bothering him. However, if psychotherapy defines your problems you will be even more frustrated because you do not have a solution to them and so are your mind and thought flow in the “convict chair”. The “solution” offered is a long way away. It will take a long time to come up with it. Many things remain unsolvable because it can be “lived in” and thus neglected, and the focus is placed on the most serious ones. In social life, they create a disturbance, so the “outward appearance” is important. Also, the bad news is that if someone in the family had a disorder of a psychic nature, it is likely that something will affect you as well.
Every person has thoughts that bother him and indicate that something is very wrong in the world in which we are born and live. If we are honest and truly in the depths of our soul we strive for truth and justice the Lord who knows all our needs, our pain, will not leave us. He is the One who really deals with the suffering soul, every single one at all times of the day and night. Because for Him there is no unsolvable problem, nothing can burden Him. Everything is possible for Him, and not only is He there to solve it, but also to prevent further problems. And He will create joy in the life of one who turns to Him for help. God’s sessions are free. They are a gift to anyone who wants a cure. For one whose vital functions of spirituality are at the end of their power.
We may not see any way to escape from the harsh conditions that plague us. But God’s thinking is not limited. Since we do not see the way out ourselves, we tend to think that there is no way out. We think that our condition is hopeless. Human help may not come to us, but He can always help us.
“Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.” (James 4: 8)
“I have swept away your offenses like a cloud, your sins like the morning mist. Return to me, for I have redeemed you.” (Isaiah 44:22)