{"id":413,"date":"2016-02-13T15:53:17","date_gmt":"2016-02-13T15:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/truthwatchers.com\/?p=413"},"modified":"2019-09-23T09:28:31","modified_gmt":"2019-09-23T09:28:31","slug":"why-psychology-cannot-be-christian-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/truthwatchers.com\/why-psychology-cannot-be-christian-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Psychology cannot be Christian (Part 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Psalms 1:1-3 the Word of God has promised us prosperity and blessings if we delight in His word and avoid the council of the ungodly. Yet the Church today has turned to Psychology for it\u2019s council. Is Psychology compatible with Christianity? To answer this question we, must first define \u201cpsychology\u201d and identify it\u2019s most influential voices. Gary Collins, who believes in integrating psychology and Christianity states:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Psychology is a science attempting to use precisely defined scientific terms. The Bible on the other hand, is not a scientific volume and uses terms which are much more difficult to define with precision. Words like \u201cego,\u201d \u201cemotion,\u201d and \u201cdepression\u201d are psychological terms which do not have clear parallels in scriptural language. On the other hand, words like \u201cmind,\u201d \u201csoul,\u201d or \u201cspirit\u201d are Biblical terms which are psychologically meaningless.<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_413_1('footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_1');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_413_1('footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_1');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_1\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">1)<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_413_1_1\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">Gary R. Collins, Search For Reality: Psychology and the Christian, Key Publishers, 1969, p. 21<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_1').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_413_1_1', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script><\/p>\n<p>If the biblical term \u201csoul\u201d being translated from the Greek word \u201cpsyche\u201d is meaningless in psychology then the whole system of psychology is meaningless since it is derived from that very word. Furthermore, it cannot be \u201ca science\u201d since the \u201cpsyche\u201d is not something physical that can be dissected or observed; the same can be said about \u201cego,\u201d \u201cemotion,\u201d and \u201cdepression.\u201d Ed Bulky pointed out: \u201cDealing with the human mind and soul, however, is an entirely different matter. No one has yet observed a mind or dissected an emotion. No X-ray scan has ever detected the soul. Psychologists are not even sure how to define the mind.\u201d<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_413_1('footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_2');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_413_1('footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_2');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_2\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">2)<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_413_1_2\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">Ed Bulkley, Ph.D., Why Christians Can\u2019t Trust Psychology, Harvest House Publishers,1993, p. 132<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_2').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_413_1_2', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script> Bulky further asserted, \u201cThe point is that human thinking and behavior cannot be categorized scientifically because each human is unique and one\u2019s reaction to events, circumstances, and other stimuli cannot be predicted or tested using the scientific method\u2026. Psychology rarely deals with established facts or truths but with subjective opinions and interpretations of uncontrolled observations. Psychology is not dealing with the consistent interactions between chemicals that can be carefully controlled in the laboratory, but with analyses that are tainted by the unique free wills of the subjects and the mindset of the researchers.\u201d<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_413_1('footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_3');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_413_1('footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_3');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_3\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">3)<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_413_1_3\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">Ed Bulkley, Ph.D., Why Christians Can\u2019t Trust Psychology, Harvest House Publishers,1993, p. 50-52<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_3').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_413_1_3', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script><br \/>\nPhil Arms accurately identifies that psychology is nothing but theories.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">More then 250 psychological counseling techniques of theoretic approaches to counseling exist in the field of psychology. Each include contradictory theories and teachings and each claims to present \u201ctruth\u201d\u2026. In fact, of the multitude of ideological interpretations of psychological truth, what chance is there that any of them are correct?<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_413_1('footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_4');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_413_1('footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_4');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_4\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">4)<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_413_1_4\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">Phil Arms, Promise Keepers: Another Trojan Horse, Shiloh Publishers, 1997, p. 196<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_4').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_413_1_4', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Here is the first danger of integrating psychology and Christianity &#8211; a denial of Biblical inerrancy. Norman Geisler explanation of inerrancy \u201cis that the Bible teaches truth about both spiritual and scientific\/historical matters.\u201d<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_413_1('footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_5');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_413_1('footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_5');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_5\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">5)<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_413_1_5\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">Norman Geisler and Ron Brooks, When Skeptics Ask, Baker Books, 3rd print, 1999, p. 150<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_5').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_413_1_5', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script> When Christian psychologist Gary Collins says the Bible \u201cis not a scientific volume,\u201d he denies the science of the Bible is accurate in exchange for the multiplicity of contradicting theories that make up psychology. Charles C. Ryrie said \u201cIf inerrancy falls, other doctrines will too.\u201d<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_413_1('footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_6');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_413_1('footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_6');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_6\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">6)<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_413_1_6\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">Charles C. Ryrie, Basic Theology, Victor Books, 1986, p. 77<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_6').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_413_1_6', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script> He noted, \u201cSome lifestyle errors that may follow a denial of inerrancy include\u2026 A tendency to view the Bible through a modern psychological grid.\u201d<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_413_1('footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_7');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_413_1('footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_7');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_7\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">7)<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_413_1_7\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">Charles C. Ryrie, Basic Theology, Victor Books, 1986, p. 78<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_7').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_413_1_7', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Ed Bulky\u2019s commented: \u201cThe integrationist position is scientifically invalid, theologically confused, and biblically inconsistent.\u201d<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_413_1('footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_8');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_413_1('footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_8');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_8\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">8)<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_413_1_8\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">Ed Bulkley, Why Christians Can\u2019t Trust Psychology, Harvest House, 1993, p. 32-33<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_8').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_413_1_8', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script> He adds, \u201cdiluted theology is the inevitable result of integration.\u201d<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_413_1('footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_9');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_413_1('footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_9');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_9\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">9)<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_413_1_9\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">Ed Bulkley, Why Christians Can\u2019t Trust Psychology, Harvest House, 1993, p. 197<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_9').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_413_1_9', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script> The apostle Paul warned: \u201cBeware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.\u201d (Colossians 2:8) Paul Tautges criticized, \u201cTherefore, it is to be expected that, when a church or seminary departs from the doctrine of inerrancy, a rejection of the Bible\u2019s authority and sufficiency will follow not long afterward. And once the authority and sufficiency of the Bible are undermined, it soon follows that belief in the total depravity of man and his desperate need of redemption through Jesus Christ is replaced by the psychological gospel of self-improvement.\u201d<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_413_1('footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_10');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_413_1('footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_10');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_10\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">10)<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_413_1_10\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">Paul Tautges, Counsel One Another: A Theology of Personal Discipleship, Day One Publications, 2009, p. 16<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_10').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_413_1_10', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script> The Bible proclaims its authority and sufficiency in \u201call things\u201d and to integrate psychological theories with Scriptures is to diminish its sufficiency. \u201cAccording as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue: Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.\u201d (2 Peter 1:3-4) \u201cEvery word of God is pure\u201d (Proverbs 30:5; Psalms 12:6; 19:8; 119:40), and we are warned not to add to it which would dilute its truth and purity (Deuteronomy 4:2; 12:32; Proverbs 30:6; Revelation 22:18-19).<br \/>\nChristian psychologist Gary Collins warns \u201cMost would agree that even well-meaning and sincere Christian psychologists can be contaminated by secular assumptions and practices that pervade much of modern psychology.\u201d<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_413_1('footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_11');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_413_1('footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_11');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_11\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">11)<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_413_1_11\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">Gary R. Collins, Can You Trust Psychology?, Intervarsity, 1988, p. 91<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_11').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_413_1_11', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script> Relying on secular psychological theories over and above ministering from the Word of God is \u201cHaving a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away\u201d (2 Timothy 3:5).This is why it cannot be integrated. \u201cWill ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him? Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?\u201d (Job 13:7-8). We can either accept God at His word as it is or handle it deceitfully and diminish the sufficiency of it. This should be obvious considering what John Ankerberg and John Weldon wrote, \u201cThe presuppositions that provide the general framework within which most psychology is practiced include the following: 1) naturalism, 2) materialism, 3) reductionism, 4) determinism, 5) evolution, 6) empiricism, 7) relativism, 8) humanism, and 9) increasingly, occultism.\u201d<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_413_1('footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_12');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_413_1('footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_12');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_12\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">12)<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_413_1_12\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">John Ankerberg &amp; John Weldon, The Facts On Self-Esteem, Psychology, and the Recovery Movement, Harvest House Publishers, 1995, p. 8<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_12').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_413_1_12', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script> Notice that the overwhelming majority of this list exclude the possibility of the soul\u2018s (psyche) existence, so how can it thence be studied? The answer is it cannot be studied scientifically. \u201cIn essence, psychology cannot be a coherent science because it does not deal in the realm of the observable, testable, and predictable, but rather in the realm of complex human behavior and motivation and in subjective perception and evaluations.\u201d<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_413_1('footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_13');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_413_1('footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_13');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_13\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">13)<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_413_1_13\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">John Ankerberg &amp; John Weldon, The Facts On Self-Esteem, Psychology, and the Recovery Movement, Harvest House Publishers, 1995, p. 11<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_13').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_413_1_13', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script> This is why it is increasingly moving towards occult spirituality and the metaphysical as humanism is bound to do (Romans 1:18-25).<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">In reality, modern psychology is a bankrupt \u201creligion\u201d with no real capacity for helping people. Under the guise of psychology, occult concepts have gained acceptance as being legitimate scientific principles. Hence, occultism is increasingly moving forward in the name of psychology and the human sciences.<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_413_1('footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_14');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_413_1('footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_14');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_14\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">14)<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_413_1_14\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">Gary H. Kah, The New World Religion, Hope International Publishing, Inc., 1999, p. 61<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_14').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_413_1_14', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Occultism runs deep in the heart of all the major psychological theorists. \u201cJung mythologized Scripture and reduced the basic doctrines of the Christian faith into esoteric gnosticism\u2026. Freud was also involved in idolatry and the occult.\u201d<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_413_1('footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_15');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_413_1('footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_15');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_15\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">15)<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_413_1_15\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">Martin &amp; Deidre Bobgan, The End of \u201cChristian Psychology,\u201d EastGate Publishers, 1997, p. 105<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_15').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_413_1_15', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script> \u201cOne of its [psychology\u2018s] leaders, Carl Rogers, renounced Christianity while in seminary and turned to the study of psychology.\u201d<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_413_1('footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_16');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_413_1('footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_16');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_16\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">16)<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_413_1_16\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">Dave Hunt, Countdown to the Second Coming: A Chronology of Prophetic Earth Events Happening Now, The Berean Call, 2005, p. 56<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_16').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_413_1_16', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script> \u201cErich Fromm, an atheist, popularized the idea of self-love. He got it from Nietzsche. One of Fromm\u2019s books was Ye Shall Be as Gods. He took the lie of the serpent for its title.\u201d<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_413_1('footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_17');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_413_1('footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_17');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_17\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">17)<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_413_1_17\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">T. A. McMahon, The Berean Call, February 2012, p. 6<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_17').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_413_1_17', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script> Caryl Matrisciana acknowledged, \u201cPsychology and psychotherapy\u2019s most influential thinkers, such as Freud, Jung, Pavlov, Skinner, and Maslow, were atheists, drug-users, occultists, and avowed humanists. Yet their techniques and psychological remedies are popular in Christian circles.\u201d<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_413_1('footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_18');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_413_1('footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_18');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_18\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">18)<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_413_1_18\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">Caryl Matrisciana, Gods of the New Age, Harvest House Publishers, 1985, p. 194<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_18').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_413_1_18', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script> Secular historian have also referenced this fact frequently. \u201cThe dissemination of Jungian thought in America has occult as well as clinical bearings.\u201d<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_413_1('footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_19');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_413_1('footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_19');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_19\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">19)<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_413_1_19\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">Howard Kerr and Charles L. Crow, ed., The Occult In America: New Historical Perspectives, The University of Illinois Press, 1983, p. 6<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_19').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_413_1_19', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script><br \/>\nSigmund Freud admitted, \u201cIt no longer seems possible to brush aside the study of so-called occult facts; of things which seem to vouchsafe the real existence of psychic forces\u2026 or which reveal mental faculties in which, until now, we did not believe.\u201d<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_413_1('footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_20');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_413_1('footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_20');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_20\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">20)<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_413_1_20\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">Freud, cited by Nandor Fodor, Freud, Jung, and Occultism, University Books, 1971, p. 129-130<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_20').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_413_1_20', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script> Carl Jung is a clear example.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">He [Jung] Delved deeply into the occult, practiced necromancy, and had daily contact with disembodied spirits, which he called archetypes. Jung described his whole house \u201ccrammed full of spirits\u201d crying out to him.<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_413_1('footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_21');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_413_1('footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_21');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_21\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">21)<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_413_1_21\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">Martin &amp; Deidre Bobgan, The End of \u201cChristian Psychology,\u201d EastGate Publishers, 1997, p. 157<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_21').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_413_1_21', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Jung confessed: \u201cThese conversations with the dead formed a kind of prelude to what I had to communicate to the world about the unconscious: a kind of pattern of order and interpretation of its general content.\u201d<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_413_1('footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_22');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_413_1('footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_22');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_22\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">22)<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_413_1_22\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">Carl Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections, Aniela Jeffe, ed., Richard and Clara Winston, trans., Pantheon, 1963, p. 192<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_22').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_413_1_22', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script> Hence, Jungian psychology is a demonic deception that has deceived the whole world (Revelation 12:9; 2 Corinthians 4:4). One of these demonic entities he called Philemon. \u201cPsychologically, Philemon represented superior insight. He was a mysterious figure to me. At times he seemed to me quite real, as if he were a living personality. I went walking up and down the garden with him, and to me he was what the Indians call a guru.\u201d<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_413_1('footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_23');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_413_1('footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_23');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_23\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">23)<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_413_1_23\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">C. G. Jung, Memories, Dreams Reflections, Aniela Jeffe, ed., Richard and Clara Winston, trans., Pantheon, 1963, p. 183<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_23').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_413_1_23', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script> Jung engaged in what the Bible calls an abomination (Deuteronomy 18:10-14), yet most, if not all of his theories was a product of necromancy. \u201cIn 1916, after experiencing some bizarre paranormal events, Jung wrote in three nights a mystical tract called The Seven Sermons to the Dead. He ascribed this writing to Basilides, a Gnostic teacher of the second century in Alexandria.\u201d<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_413_1('footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_24');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_413_1('footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_24');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_24\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">24)<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_413_1_24\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">Douglas Groothuis, Jesus In An Age of Controversy, Harvest House Publishers, 1996 p. 80<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_24').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_413_1_24', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script> Spiritism opens the door to demonic possession which Jung also admitted. \u201cThere was a daimon in me, and in the end its presence proved decisive. It overpowered me, and if I was at times ruthless it was because I was in the grip of the daimon.\u201d<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_413_1('footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_25');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_413_1('footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_25');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_25\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">25)<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_413_1_25\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">C. G. Jung, Memories, Dreams Reflections, Aniela Jeffe, ed., Richard and Clara Winston, trans., Pantheon, 1963, p. 356<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_25').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_413_1_25', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script> Scriptures admonish \u201che that is spiritual judgeth all things\u201d (1 Corinthians 2:15), and \u201ctry the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world\u201d (1 John 4:1), but Jungian psychology has been embraced by Christian psychologists.<br \/>\nFreud and Jung have the farthest reach influence on psychology. \u201cFor a period of about six years, Jung worked closely with Sigmund Freud.\u201d<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_413_1('footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_26');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_413_1('footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_26');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_26\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">26)<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_413_1_26\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">Gary Kah, The Demonic Roots of Globalization, Huntington House, 1995, p. 81<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_26').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_413_1_26', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script> Freud wrote of himself, \u201cI regard myself as one of the most dangerous enemies of religion.\u201d<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_413_1('footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_27');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_413_1('footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_27');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_27\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">27)<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_413_1_27\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">Sigmund Freud cited by Ernest Jones, The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud, Vol. 3, Basic Books, 1955, p. 124 <\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_27').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_413_1_27', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script>Psychiatrist Thomas Szasz stated, \u201cOne of Freud\u2019s most powerful motives in life was the desire to inflict vengeance on Christianity for its traditional anti-Semitism.\u201d<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_413_1('footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_28');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_413_1('footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_28');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_28\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">28)<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_413_1_28\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">Thomas Szasz, The Myth of Psychotherapy: Mental Healing As Religion, Rhetoric, and Repression, Anchor\/Doubleday, 1978, p. 146<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_28').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_413_1_28', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script> This fact caused Jay Adams to conclude: \u201cIn my opinion, advocating, allowing and practicing psychiatric an psychoanalytical dogmas within the church is every bit as pagan and heretical (and therefore perilous) as propagating the teachings of some of the most bizarre cults. The only vital difference is that the cults are less dangerous because their errors are more identifiable.\u201d<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_413_1('footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_29');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_413_1('footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_29');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_29\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">29)<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_413_1_29\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">Jay E. Adams, More Than Redemption, Baker Books House, 1979, p. xi-xii<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_29').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_413_1_29', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script><br \/>\nConsider the general attitude of the National Education Association (NEA) of children who are raised by religious parents as presented by Mel and Norma Gabler in their book What Are They Teaching Our Children? \u201cAlthough they [children of religious upbringing] appear to behave appropriately and seem normal by most cultural standards, they may actually be in need of mental health care, in order to help them change, adapt, and conform to the planned society in which there will be no conflict of attitudes of beliefs.\u201d<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_413_1('footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_30');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_413_1('footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_30');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_30\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">30)<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_413_1_30\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">Mel and Norma Gabler, What Are They Teaching Our Children?, Victor Books, 1985, p. 121-122<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_30').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_413_1_30', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script> This attitude was also propagated by M. Scott Peck, who wrote, \u201cpsychiatrists must spend enormous amounts of time and effort in the struggle to liberate their patients\u2019 minds from outmoded religious ideas and concepts that are clearly destructive.\u201d<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_413_1('footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_31');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_413_1('footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_31');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_31\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">31)<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_413_1_31\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">M. Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled, Simon &amp; Schuster, 1978, p. 207-208<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_31').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_413_1_31', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script> This is taken for granted the assumption the psychiatrist knows what religious ideas are destructive. Take M. Scott Peck for example. \u201cThe god of Peck is but an idol invented by his mind. He combines his personal experience in Eastern religion with the teaching of liberal theologians such as Teilhard de Chardin, Paul Tillich and Erich Fromm.\u201d<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_413_1('footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_32');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_413_1('footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_32');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_32\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">32)<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_413_1_32\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">H. Wayne House, Richard Abanes, The Less Traveled Road and the Bible: A Scriptural Critique of the Philosophy of M. Scott Peck, Horizon Books, 1995, p. 208<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_32').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_413_1_32', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script><br \/>\nPeck played a major part in popularizing the synthesis of secular psychology and spirituality.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">This \u201cmarriage\u201d of therapy for both mind and soul is perhaps best exemplified in the works of Harvard-educated psychiatrist M. Scott Peck, whose 1978 book The Road Less Traveled initiated the entire psychology-spirituality movement. As of April 26, 1994, his landmark volume was still on the New York Times bestseller list &#8211; a full 600 weeks after first appearing there. For this accomplishment, Peck has won himself a place in Guinness Book of World Records. He is arguably the most famous and influential of all the counseling gurus promising spiritual and emotional wholeness.<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_413_1('footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_33');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_413_1('footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_33');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_33\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">33)<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_413_1_33\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">H. Wayne House, Richard Abanes, The Less Traveled Road and the Bible: A Scriptural Critique of the Philosophy of M. Scott Peck, Horizon Books, 1995, p. 2<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_33').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_413_1_33', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Peck did not \u201cinitiate the entire psychology-spirituality movement,\u201d but he definitely made it more popular. Ram Dass preceded Peck by a decade and William James by almost a century. What distinguishes Peck from others is that his influence infiltrated the church.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Even before the release of People of the Lie [1983], Peck had announced his \u201cconversion\u201d and, as a result, was beginning to garner support from Christians\u2026. Peck\u2019s greatest popularity soon shifted from New York and Los Angeles to the Bible belt\u2026. This relationship between Peck and the Christian community remains strong to this day.<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_413_1('footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_34');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_413_1('footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_34');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_34\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">34)<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_413_1_34\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">H. Wayne House, Richard Abanes, The Less Traveled Road and the Bible: A Scriptural Critique of the Philosophy of M. Scott Peck, Horizon Books, 1995, p. 38<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_34').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_413_1_34', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Concerning his alleged conversion in 1980, Peck wrote in his second book, \u201cMy commitment to Christianity is the most important thing in my life and is, I hope, persuasive and total.\u201d<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_413_1('footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_35');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_413_1('footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_35');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_35\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">35)<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_413_1_35\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">M. Scott Peck, People of the Lie, Simon &amp; Schuster, 1983, p. 11<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_35').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_413_1_35', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script> It persuaded many, but from his own writings his conversion proves to be a farce. Peck spoke of Erich Fromm saying, \u201cI applaud his view\u201d about people becoming evil not being born sinful,<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_413_1('footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_36');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_413_1('footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_36');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_36\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">36)<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_413_1_36\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">M. Scott Peck, People of the Lie, Simon &amp; Schuster, 1983, p. 82<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_36').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_413_1_36', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script> and espoused Freud\u2019 s \u201cOedipal dilemma\u201d theory which is pure incestuous perversion.<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_413_1('footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_37');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_413_1('footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_37');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_37\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">37)<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_413_1_37\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">M. Scott Peck, The People of the Lie, Simon &amp; Schuster, 1983, p. 154-155<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_37').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_413_1_37', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script> \u201cUnveiling Freud\u2019s theories exposes lust, incest, castration anxiety, and for a woman, penis envy. And Freud was convinced that all of these are psychologically determined by age five or six. Can you think of a more macabre, twisted and even demonic explanation for human sexuality and mental disorders than Freud\u2019s central theory of infantile sexuality?\u201d<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_413_1('footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_38');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_413_1('footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_38');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_38\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">38)<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_413_1_38\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">Martin &amp; Deidre Bobgan, The End of \u201cChristian Psychology,\u201d EastGate Publishers, 1997, p. 135<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_38').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_413_1_38', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script> Oddly, victims of sexual predators seek psychological healing from those that propagate the very dogmas that create sexual predators. Carl Jung reported that Freud once said to him, \u201cMy dear Jung, promise me never to abandon the sexual theory, that is the most essential thing of all. You see, we must make a dogma of it, an unshakable bulwark.\u201d<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_413_1('footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_39');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_413_1('footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_39');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_39\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">39)<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_413_1_39\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">Edward C. Whitmont, \u201cJungian Analysis Today,\u201d Psychology Today, December 1972, p. 70<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_39').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_413_1_39', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script> His dogma assured freedom from a guilty consciences permitting man\u2018s \u201cinstinctual wishes\u201d and most perverse lusts. Freud wrote: \u201cAmong these instinctual wishes are those of incest, cannibalism, and lust for killing.\u201d<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_413_1('footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_40');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_413_1('footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_40');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_40\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">40)<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_413_1_40\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion, trans. James Starchey, W. W. Norton, 1961, p. 13<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_40').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_413_1_40', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Wicca priestess Miriam Starhawk identified her Freudian influence when she said, \u201cWe become whole through knowing our strength and creativity, our aggression, our sexuality, by affirming the self, not by denying it.\u201d<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_413_1('footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_41');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_413_1('footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_41');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_41\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">41)<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_413_1_41\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">Miriam Starhawk, cited in Yoga Journal, July\/August 1986, p. 4<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_41').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_413_1_41', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script> This is so adverse from biblical Christianity which teaches to deny self (Matthew 16:24; Mark 8:34; Luke 9:23), \u201cflee fornication\u201d (1 Corinthians 6:18), \u201cavoid fornication\u201c (1 Corinthians 7:2), \u201cabstain from fornication\u201d (1 Thessalonians 4:3). Jesus defined Freudianism when He said \u201cFor out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies: These are the things which defile a man\u201d (Matthew 15:19-20).<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Freud\u2019s impact as \u201cthe father of psychoanalytic theory\u201d has rippled through psychological thinking and into the general population, leaving bizarre thoughts and actions in its wake.<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_413_1('footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_42');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_413_1('footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_42');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_42\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">42)<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_413_1_42\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">Brannon Howse, Grave Influence: 21 Radicals and their Worldview that Rule America from the Grave, Worldview Weekend, 2009, p. 303<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_42').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_413_1_42', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Freud\u2019s goal was to clear his own conscience by making his diabolical perversions the social norm.<br \/>\nFreud was strongly influenced by Friedrich Nietzsche. Walter Kaufmann, a translator of Nietzsche\u2019s writings, stated: \u201cBut if we reflect on the three things which, according to Nietzsche, had been maligned most, under the influence of Christianity, and which he sought to rehabilitate or revaluate &#8211; were they not selfishness, the will to power, and sex? Nietzsche\u2019s early impact was in some ways comparable to that of Freud or Havelock Ellis.\u201d<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_413_1('footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_43');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_413_1('footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_43');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_43\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">43)<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_413_1_43\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Translated and with a Preface by Walter Kaufmann, The Viking Press, Inc., 1954, 1966, p. 150<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_43').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_413_1_43', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script> Nietzsche himself wrote \u201cHe that taught to bless also taught to curse; what are the three best cursed things in the world? I shall put them on the scales. Sex, the lust to rule, selfishness; these three have so far been best cursed and worst reputed and lied about; these three I will weigh humanly well.\u201d<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_413_1('footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_44');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_413_1('footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_44');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_44\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">44)<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_413_1_44\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Translated and with a Preface by Walter Kaufmann, The Viking Press, Inc., 1954, 1966, p. 187-188<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_44').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_413_1_44', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script> These three things are also defined in the Bible (1 John 2:16). Nietzsche blasphemously asserted, \u201cHe whom they call Redeemer has put them in fetters: in fetters of false values and delusive words. Would that someone would yet redeem them from their redeemer.\u201d<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_413_1('footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_45');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_413_1('footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_45');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_45\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">45)<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_413_1_45\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Translated and with a Preface by Walter Kaufmann, The Viking Press, Inc., 1954, 1966, p. 91<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_45').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_413_1_45', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script> Freud\u2019s influence from Nietzsche thus sparked his goal to redeem the world from Christianity. Os Guiness revealed, \u201cIt is well known that Freud dismissed religion as an \u2018illusion\u2019 and saw himself as a \u2018new Moses\u2019 with [Carl] Jung as his \u2018Joshua.\u2019 He advocated psychotherapy as \u2018a reeducation\u2019 for a new human civilization through a complete reversal of Mosaic morality and God-grounded objective guilt. Psychological liberty to Freud was a mater of messianic liberation.\u201d<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_413_1('footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_46');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_413_1('footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_46');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_46\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">46)<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_413_1_46\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">Os Guiness, \u201cAmerica\u2019s Last Men and Their Magnificent Talking Cure,\u201d The Journal of Biblical Counseling, 15\/2, 1997, p. 24 <\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_46').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_413_1_46', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script> Paul Tautges confirmed, \u201cAdding the teaching of Sigmund Freud to the teachings of Jesus Christ could result in nothing less than a departure from biblical truth, since Freud considered himself a savior whose purpose was to rescue people from the bondage of faith in God.\u201d<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_413_1('footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_47');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_413_1('footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_47');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_47\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">47)<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_413_1_47\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">Paul Tautges, Counsel One Another: A Theology of Personal Discipleship, Day One Publications, 2009, p. 15<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_47').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_413_1_47', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script><br \/>\nExactly when did such heresy infiltrate the Church?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Peale confessed that as a youth he had &#8220;the worst inferiority complex of all,&#8221; and developed his positive thinking\/positive confession philosophy just to help himself. In 1937, Peale established a clinic with Freudian psychiatrist Dr. Smiley Blanton in the basement of the Marble Collegiate Church. (Blanton brought with him the &#8220;extensive experience&#8221; of having undergone psychoanalysis by Freud himself in Vienna in 1929, 1935, 1936, and 1937.) The clinic was described as having &#8220;a theoretical base that was Jungian, with a strong evidence of neo- and post-Freudianism&#8221; (Carol V.R. George, God&#8217;s Salesman: Norman Vincent Peale and the Power of Positive Thinking , p. 90). It subsequently grew to an operation with more than 20 psychiatric doctors and psychologically- trained &#8220;ministers,&#8221; and in 1951 became known as the American Foundation for Religion and Psychiatry. In 1972, it merged with the Academy of Religion and Mental Health to form the Institutes of Religion and Health (IRH). To his death, Peale remained affiliated with the IRH as president of the board and chief fund raiser. Indeed, Peale pioneered the merger of theology and psychology which became known as Christian Psychology.<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_413_1('footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_48');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_413_1('footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_48');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_48\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">48)<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_413_1_48\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\"><a href=\"http:\/\/normanvincentpeale.wwwhubs.com\/\"><span class=\"footnote_url_wrap\">http:\/\/normanvincentpeale.wwwhubs.com\/<\/span><\/a>, accessed 6\/29\/2013<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_48').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_413_1_48', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Biographer George Mair recorded: \u201cReverend Norman Vincent Peale is, to many, the most prophetic and moving New Age preacher of the twentieth century. He is also the father of the self-help movement that formed the groundwork for the Church Growth Movement. Peale formed perhaps the most dramatic and meaningful link between religion and psychology of any religious leader in history. It is this same approachable, therapeutic brand of religion that many mega churches, including Saddleback, put forward today. It is this kind of religion that is so appealing to the masses of unchurched men and women that Rick Warren hopes to reach.\u201d<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_413_1('footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_49');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_413_1('footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_49');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_49\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">49)<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_413_1_49\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">George Mair, A Life With Purpose: Reverend Rick Warren: The Most Inspiring Pastor of Our Time, Berkeley Books, 2005, p. 93-94<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_49').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_413_1_49', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script> David Cloud explained, \u201cCarl Gustav Jung (1875-1961), the founder of analytical psychology, has been influential, not only in society at large, but also in the New Age movement and within almost all aspects of Christianity. Jung has influenced both modernists and evangelicals. His writings are influential within the contemplative movement\u2026.Jung\u2019s psychology typing provides the underpinning for the Personality Profiling part of Rick Warren\u2019 SHAPE program, which is used by countless churches and institutions.\u201d<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_413_1('footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_50');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_413_1('footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_50');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_50\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">50)<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_413_1_50\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">David Cloud, The New Age Tower of Babel, Way of Life Literature, 2008, p. 107-108<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_50').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_413_1_50', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script> Churches today abound with unbiblical, New Age, pop-psychological theories that have no transformative power. Consider Rick Warren who lost his 27 year old son to suicide after a life time of battling depression. \u201cIn spite of America\u2019s best doctors, meds, counselors, and prayers for healing, the torture of mental illness never subsided,\u201d Warren wrote in a letter to church members. \u201cBut the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace\u2026\u201d (Galatians 5:22), which cannot be received through humanistic psychology. \u201cVain, man-centered philosophies or psychology cannot save.\u201d<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_413_1('footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_51');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_413_1('footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_51');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_51\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">51)<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_413_1_51\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">Daniel P. Franklin, Christians In Hell: Is Your Faith Merely False Hope?, Tate Publishing &amp; Enterprises, 2010, p. 154<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_51').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_413_1_51', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script> A born again Christian is transformed by the renewing of the mind (Romans 12:2), and \u201cold things are passed away; behold, all things are become new\u201d (2 Corinthians 5:17).<\/p>\n<p>Depression from unsatisfied lust is the results of ignoring biblically admonitions to \u201clet each esteem other better than themselves\u201d (Philippians 2:3). Psychology teaches to esteem self, to love self, it is mere narcissistic selfishness. \u201cPerhaps no man has popularized this man-centered approach to Christianity more than radio psychologist James Dobson. Setting aside any question of his sincerity or personal integrity, it must be recognized, however, that his media ministry has been more responsible for spreading the Christ-diminishing gospel of self-esteem, self-love, self-respect, and self-acceptance than many others. For over three decades, Focus on the Family has been beating the self-esteem drum with a passion. Unfortunately, as much as Dr. Dobson\u2018s enduring fight for morality and the preservation of traditional family values is deeply appreciated by all who love and serve Christ, his fundamental view of man\u2018s need is erroneous and, therefore, subtly undermines biblical foundations.\u201d<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_413_1('footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_52');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_413_1('footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_52');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_52\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">52)<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_413_1_52\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">Paul Tautges, Counsel One Another: A Theology of Personal Discipleship, Day One Publications, 2009, p. 146-147<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_52').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_413_1_52', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script> All our works for the Lord should be as He commanded (Exodus 39:43) &#8211; \u201cthat your labour is not in vain in the Lord.\u201d (1 Corinthians 15:58).<\/p>\n<p>\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026..<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthwatchers.com\/beware-new-prophets\/#_ednref1\" name=\"_edn1\"><\/a>If you liked this article, you may also be interested in <strong><em>Crept In Unawares: Mysticism<\/em><\/strong> by Heath Henning is available for purchase <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/1692362542\/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=crept+in+unawares&amp;qid=1568380588&amp;sr=8-1\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthwatchers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Crept-In-Unawares-Mysticism-min.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1475\" src=\"https:\/\/truthwatchers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Crept-In-Unawares-Mysticism-min-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/truthwatchers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Crept-In-Unawares-Mysticism-min-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/truthwatchers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Crept-In-Unawares-Mysticism-min-280x420.jpg 280w, https:\/\/truthwatchers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Crept-In-Unawares-Mysticism-min.jpg 333w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"speaker-mute footnotes_reference_container\"> <div class=\"footnote_container_prepare\"><p><span role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" class=\"footnote_reference_container_label pointer\" onclick=\"footnote_expand_collapse_reference_container_413_1();\">References<\/span><span role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" class=\"footnote_reference_container_collapse_button\" style=\"\" onclick=\"footnote_expand_collapse_reference_container_413_1();\">[<a id=\"footnote_reference_container_collapse_button_413_1\">+<\/a>]<\/span><\/p><\/div> <div id=\"footnote_references_container_413_1\" style=\"display: none;\"><table class=\"footnotes_table footnote-reference-container\"><caption class=\"accessibility\">References<\/caption> <tbody> \r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi pointer\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_413_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_1');\"><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_1\" class=\"footnote_backlink\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>1<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">Gary R. Collins, Search For Reality: Psychology and the Christian, Key Publishers, 1969, p. 21<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi pointer\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_413_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_2');\"><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_2\" class=\"footnote_backlink\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>2<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">Ed Bulkley, Ph.D., Why Christians Can\u2019t Trust Psychology, Harvest House Publishers,1993, p. 132<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi pointer\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_413_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_3');\"><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_3\" class=\"footnote_backlink\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>3<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">Ed Bulkley, Ph.D., Why Christians Can\u2019t Trust Psychology, Harvest House Publishers,1993, p. 50-52<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi pointer\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_413_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_4');\"><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_4\" class=\"footnote_backlink\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>4<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">Phil Arms, Promise Keepers: Another Trojan Horse, Shiloh Publishers, 1997, p. 196<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi pointer\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_413_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_5');\"><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_5\" class=\"footnote_backlink\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>5<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">Norman Geisler and Ron Brooks, When Skeptics Ask, Baker Books, 3rd print, 1999, p. 150<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi pointer\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_413_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_6');\"><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_6\" class=\"footnote_backlink\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>6<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">Charles C. Ryrie, Basic Theology, Victor Books, 1986, p. 77<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi pointer\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_413_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_7');\"><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_7\" class=\"footnote_backlink\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>7<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">Charles C. Ryrie, Basic Theology, Victor Books, 1986, p. 78<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi pointer\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_413_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_8');\"><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_8\" class=\"footnote_backlink\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>8<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">Ed Bulkley, Why Christians Can\u2019t Trust Psychology, Harvest House, 1993, p. 32-33<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi pointer\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_413_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_9');\"><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_9\" class=\"footnote_backlink\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>9<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">Ed Bulkley, Why Christians Can\u2019t Trust Psychology, Harvest House, 1993, p. 197<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi pointer\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_413_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_10');\"><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_10\" class=\"footnote_backlink\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>10<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">Paul Tautges, Counsel One Another: A Theology of Personal Discipleship, Day One Publications, 2009, p. 16<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi pointer\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_413_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_11');\"><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_11\" class=\"footnote_backlink\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>11<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">Gary R. Collins, Can You Trust Psychology?, Intervarsity, 1988, p. 91<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi pointer\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_413_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_12');\"><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_12\" class=\"footnote_backlink\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>12<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">John Ankerberg &amp; John Weldon, The Facts On Self-Esteem, Psychology, and the Recovery Movement, Harvest House Publishers, 1995, p. 8<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi pointer\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_413_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_13');\"><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_13\" class=\"footnote_backlink\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>13<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">John Ankerberg &amp; John Weldon, The Facts On Self-Esteem, Psychology, and the Recovery Movement, Harvest House Publishers, 1995, p. 11<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi pointer\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_413_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_14');\"><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_14\" class=\"footnote_backlink\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>14<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">Gary H. Kah, The New World Religion, Hope International Publishing, Inc., 1999, p. 61<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi pointer\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_413_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_15');\"><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_15\" class=\"footnote_backlink\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>15<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">Martin &amp; Deidre Bobgan, The End of \u201cChristian Psychology,\u201d EastGate Publishers, 1997, p. 105<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi pointer\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_413_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_16');\"><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_16\" class=\"footnote_backlink\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>16<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">Dave Hunt, Countdown to the Second Coming: A Chronology of Prophetic Earth Events Happening Now, The Berean Call, 2005, p. 56<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi pointer\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_413_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_17');\"><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_17\" class=\"footnote_backlink\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>17<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">T. A. McMahon, The Berean Call, February 2012, p. 6<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi pointer\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_413_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_18');\"><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_18\" class=\"footnote_backlink\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>18<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">Caryl Matrisciana, Gods of the New Age, Harvest House Publishers, 1985, p. 194<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi pointer\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_413_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_19');\"><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_19\" class=\"footnote_backlink\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>19<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">Howard Kerr and Charles L. Crow, ed., The Occult In America: New Historical Perspectives, The University of Illinois Press, 1983, p. 6<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi pointer\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_413_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_20');\"><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_20\" class=\"footnote_backlink\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>20<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">Freud, cited by Nandor Fodor, Freud, Jung, and Occultism, University Books, 1971, p. 129-130<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi pointer\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_413_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_21');\"><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_21\" class=\"footnote_backlink\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>21<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">Martin &amp; Deidre Bobgan, The End of \u201cChristian Psychology,\u201d EastGate Publishers, 1997, p. 157<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi pointer\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_413_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_22');\"><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_22\" class=\"footnote_backlink\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>22<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">Carl Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections, Aniela Jeffe, ed., Richard and Clara Winston, trans., Pantheon, 1963, p. 192<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi pointer\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_413_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_23');\"><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_23\" class=\"footnote_backlink\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>23<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">C. G. Jung, Memories, Dreams Reflections, Aniela Jeffe, ed., Richard and Clara Winston, trans., Pantheon, 1963, p. 183<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi pointer\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_413_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_24');\"><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_24\" class=\"footnote_backlink\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>24<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">Douglas Groothuis, Jesus In An Age of Controversy, Harvest House Publishers, 1996 p. 80<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi pointer\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_413_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_25');\"><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_25\" class=\"footnote_backlink\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>25<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">C. G. Jung, Memories, Dreams Reflections, Aniela Jeffe, ed., Richard and Clara Winston, trans., Pantheon, 1963, p. 356<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi pointer\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_413_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_26');\"><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_26\" class=\"footnote_backlink\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>26<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">Gary Kah, The Demonic Roots of Globalization, Huntington House, 1995, p. 81<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi pointer\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_413_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_27');\"><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_27\" class=\"footnote_backlink\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>27<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">Sigmund Freud cited by Ernest Jones, The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud, Vol. 3, Basic Books, 1955, p. 124 <\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi pointer\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_413_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_28');\"><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_28\" class=\"footnote_backlink\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>28<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">Thomas Szasz, The Myth of Psychotherapy: Mental Healing As Religion, Rhetoric, and Repression, Anchor\/Doubleday, 1978, p. 146<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi pointer\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_413_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_29');\"><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_29\" class=\"footnote_backlink\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>29<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">Jay E. Adams, More Than Redemption, Baker Books House, 1979, p. xi-xii<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi pointer\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_413_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_30');\"><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_30\" class=\"footnote_backlink\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>30<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">Mel and Norma Gabler, What Are They Teaching Our Children?, Victor Books, 1985, p. 121-122<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi pointer\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_413_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_413_1_31');\"><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_413_1_31\" class=\"footnote_backlink\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>31<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">M. 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