Psychology vs Sanctification

“And these were more noble than those of Thessalonica, in that they received the Word with all readiness of mind and searched the Scriptures daily to see if those things were so.” Acts 17:11

Introduction:

The very fact that God’s ways are higher than our ways has important implications in both salvation (justification) and Christian growth (sanctification). God’s plan of salvation is an example of how His ways are higher and therefore different from man’s ways. His plan was the sacrifice of His only begotten Son, which is quite beyond the imagination and comprehension of the human mind. Human wisdom relies on self-improvement, salvation by works, or some other such human endeavor.

God’s ways are also higher and different regarding how Christians are to think, speak, and act; how they are to relate to one another; and how they are to handle problems of living.

Gradual Seduction:

Increasingly during the past 50 years, Christian sanctification has been thwarted through psychological counseling theories and techniques. Mistakenly supposing that psychotherapy (counseling psychology) is science and that its findings concerning the human condition are true, Christian leaders, pastors, teachers, and authors have embraced this “enlightened” means of helping Christians deal with problems of living and learn how to become better marriage partners and parents.

What Psychology Claims:

Psychotherapy attempts to improve the self through concepts such as self-love, self-esteem, self-worth, self-image, self-actualization, etc. The Bible teaches that self is humanity’s main problem, not the solution to the ills that plague mankind. And it prophetically identifies the chief solution of psychological counseling, self-love, as the catalyst to a life of depravity.

What Jesus Christ Claims:

“This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves… ”(2 Timothy 3:1).

The Bible teaches that reconciliation to God through Jesus Christ is the only way for man to truly remedy his sin-related mental, emotional, and behavioral troubles.

“And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he [Jesus Christ] reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in [God’s] sight” (Colossians 1:21, 22).

Warning to Christians:

Gleaning from the wisdom of men regarding the hidden psyche, Christians have sought to improve their lot in ways that are lower than God’s ways with ideas that often conflict with or undermine the revelation of God’s Word given in Scripture.

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