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"AMERICAN
PSYCHIATRIC ASSOCIATION: Pedophilia
has been re-defined in the American Psychiatric Association's latest Diagnostic
and Statistical Manual (DSM-IV), says the National Association of Research and
Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH). Pedophiles are no
longer classified as pedophiles if they merely fantasize about children or
molest them, according to the NARTH Bulletin. They are only pedophiles if they show
"clinically significant distress" about their behavior. The DSM-IV
declares that pedophilia is not pathological unless the pedophiles feel guilt
or cannot function in a major area of their lives, reports NARTH."
(Reading: "Pedophilia Not Always a Disorder?" NARTH Bulletin, Vol. 3,
#1, 4/95, pp. 1, 3, also see "The Problem of Pedophilia")
"But the natural man receiveth not the things of the
Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because
they are spiritually discerned" (1
Corinthians 2:14).
American Psychiatric
Association Symposium Debates Whether Pedophilia, Gender-Identity Disorder,
Sexual Sadism Should Remain Mental Illnesses "On Monday, May 19th, 2003 in San Francisco,
at a symposium hosted by the American Psychiatric Association, several
long-recognized categories of mental illness were discussed for possible
removal from the upcoming edition of the psychiatric manual of mental
disorders... Earlier, in the December 2002 issue of
a prestigious journal, the Archives of Sexual Behavior, Moser - along with several other prominent mental-health
experts - argued in favor of de-pathologizing pedophilia. Some of the
commentators writing in that issue said that there is little or no proof that
sex with adults is harmful to minors. Another mental-health expert
argued that society should not discriminate against adults who are attracted to
children - noting that many beloved authors and public figures throughout
history have been high-functioning individuals who could actually be classified
as pedophiles. 'Any sexual interest,' Moser concluded in his Archives commentary, 'can be healthy and
life-enhancing.'"
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American Psychiatric Association
Endorses Gay Marriage At Convention "The majority of the American Psychiatric Association's 250
delegates to the convention passed a resolution affirming gay marriage by a
voice vote. The delegates are said to represent the views of 36,000 members of
the APA nationwide. The resolution passed stated: 'In the interests of
maintaining and promoting mental health, the APA supports the legal recognition
of same-sex civil marriage with all rights, benefits and responsibilities
conferred by civil marriage, and opposes restrictions to those same rights,
benefits and responsibilities.'
... In 1973, the APA removed homosexuality from its list of mental
disorders..."
"This agenda has
already made remarkable progress. Homosexual activists knew that their behavior would never be accepted
as "normal" if doctors considered it a form of mental illness.
Therefore, in 1973 they forced a resolution through the American Psychiatric
Association to remove homosexuality from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual
of Mental Disorders. It is
important for everyone to realize that the 1973 decision was not the result of new clinical research or scientific
evidence. It was, rather, a political decision made in response to a vicious campaign of harassment and
intimidation by homosexual activists." - Homosexuality: The Threat to the
Family and the Attack on Marriage
"Because that, when
they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became
vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing
themselves to be wise, they became fools... And even as they did not like to
retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind... Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which
commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure
in them that do them." (Rom. 1:21, 22, 28, 32).
The major theorists of
psychology have been humanists with declared atheistic beliefs. Erich Fromm declared openly, "I am not a
theist."9
Abraham Maslow makes it plain that humanism and psychology go hand in hand:
"Humanists for thousands of years have attempted to construct a
naturalistic, psychological value system that could be derived from man's own
nature, without the necessity of recourse to authority outside the human being
himself."10
... Another major error that places psychology at complete odds with the
Bible is the psychological concept of the self. Psychology advocates
self-gratification, while the Bible teaches self-denial... Those who promote the integration of psychology
with biblical theology have failed to grasp the basic essence of the
Christian faith... What does the
Bible teach about the self? The Scriptures deal with the self as desperately
needing reformation. Little, if anything, is mentioned which would support the
modern psychological and sociological confidence that man is basically good...
Jesus clearly taught that we must deny ourselves if we are His disciples. In
Matthew 16:24 He said, "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself
and take up his cross and follow me." This is the very opposite of the
psychological doctrine of self-love...
Paul understands that man's greatest slavery is to self, and that the chains of
sin are composed of the links of selfishness. The cause of most "mental
problems" - marital and family dysfunctions, or personal anxiety - are
connected to an unhealthy preoccupation with one's self... There you have it. We can attempt to change
people's lives by giving psychological counsel that is rooted in humanism and
that points to self, or we can give biblical counsel that is rooted in divine
wisdom and points to God. - Psychology and the
Bible
For unto us a
child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his
shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty
God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace" (Isaiah 9:6,
emphases added).
Psychology and
psychotherapy as these have
evolved today reject the sovereignty and sufficiency of the Word, who is both
the person and the testimony of the Lord Jesus Christ. The bible personifies
wisdom as being Jesus. Any teaching or purported theories which dishonor or
reject Jesus therefore cannot be considered "wisdom." Christians who
rely upon such science falsely so-called of this world are not qualified to
give counsel to their brothers and sisters in the Lord. - The Idolatry of Christian
Psychology.
Carl Rogers once said, "Neither the Bible nor the prophets -
neither Freud nor research - neither the revelations of God nor man - can take
precedence over my own direct experience." For
a Christian the Word of God is supreme; for Rogers the word of self is supreme.
When the self is thus exalted, the biblical doctrines of the faith will surely
be violated. Rogers eventually became involved in spiritism, consulted the Ouija
board, and even became involved in necromancy. Through his therapy methods and
encounter groups, Rogers fueled a nationwide surge of reprehensible narcissism
and irresponsible individualism, undermined marriage and morality, and seduced
many away from the faith.
There are currently over
500 brand-name psychotherapies on the market, with the number expanding yearly.
They come at problems from many varied angles, but one thing is common to them
all: They start with a biblically defective view of the nature of man,
namely, that man is basically good and able to solve his problems apart from
God. If you start from the wrong base, you can't build a system that
complements Scripture. If you mix dirt and water, you get mud. The Bible warns us against turning to the world's
"wisdom," since it is opposed to God's wisdom (see Psalm 1:1-2; Isa.
55:8-11; Jer. 2:13; 1 Cor. 1:18-2:16). As Christians, we are to depend solely
on God and His Word as our support and wisdom in the trials of life (see Psalms
19:7-11; 32:6-11; 33:6-22; 119) so that He alone gets the glory (Ps. 115; Isa.
42:8). - Psychological
truth? Biblical truth? Isn't all truth God's truth?
The dictionary defines pseudoscience as "a system of theories, assumptions, and
methods erroneously regarded as scientific." Pseudoscience, or
pseudoscientism, includes the use of the scientific label to protect and
promote opinions which are neither provable nor refutable. One aspect of
psychology riddled with pseudoscience is that of psychotherapy. Had
psychotherapy succeeded as a science, we would have some consensus in the field
regarding mental-emotional-behavioral problems and how to treat them. Instead,
the field is filled with contradictory theories and techniques, all of which
communicate confusion rather than anything approximating scientific order. The actual foundations of
psychotherapy are not science, but rather various philosophical world
views, especially those of determinism, secular humanism, behaviorism,
existentialism, and even evolutionism. World-renowned research psychiatrist
E. Fuller Torrey is very blunt when he says: "The techniques used by
Western psychiatrists are, with few exceptions, on exactly the same scientific
plane as the techniques used by witch doctors." - Psychology:
Science or Religion?
Psychology is a cult, a Humanist cult, born in the very depths of Hell
and holding high a cup full of murdered souls - to attempt to mix this vile
demonic deception with the truth of the Bible is an abomination, and will
ultimately be met with the judgment and wrath of God. - Dr. Reg Barrow
"In my opinion,
unless a counselor is well aware of how God works for the good of His children
(providence
- ed.), and is able to communicate something of those facts to counselees in
times of distress, he will be a pretty sorry counselor." - Providential Care by Jay
Adams
One drop of the true
knowledge of God's
providence, as revealed in Scripture by the Holy Spirit, is infinitely more
comforting to a troubled soul than ten thousand oceans full of human wisdom
(falsely so called), as it is seen in the folly of the vapid and inane
conceptions commonly found among psychologists and psychiatrists. - Dr.
Reg Barrow
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Psychology
Debunked: Revealing the Overcoming Life (Paperback, review on Amazon.com)
Psychology Debunked
exposes the many rotten spots in modern psychology's ever shifting dogma.
Taking into account that suicide rears its ugly eternal head in the
psychological profession in the top 5%, along with the fact that the purported
"cure rate" given by its professional members are at below Russian
roulette rates. I strongly recommend this book. It has the innate ability to
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Debunked: Revealing the Overcoming Life (Paperback, review on Amazon.com)
This book should be read
by anyone who is a Christian and is thinking about or is already being
counseled by the psychology industry, whether it has the label Christian
attached or not. The author has a whole chapter on whether a person should take
medications for psychological "illnesses" and she explains what these
medications do to people. The author also explains her experiences in
interviewing and working at "Christian" psychology centers. She tells
about being told not to use her Bible to counsel people. Many things that
secular psychology has rejected are now common place in "Christian"
psychology. I would recommend this book to anyone but especially Christians.
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effects these forms of idolatry have on individuals (Christians and
unbelievers), families, churches and even nations -- as both psychology and
psychiatry violate the first and ninth commandments by substituting lies,
(either false human, or even demonic, ideas), for the truth of God found in the
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The depth to which "sanctified"
psychotherapy can sink is quite profound. A local newspaper recently featured an article about a
thirty-four-bed clinic that has opened in Southern California to treat
"Christian sex addicts."[28]
(The article does not explain the reasons for beds in this kind of clinic.)
According to the account, the clinic is affiliated with a large and well-known
Protestant church in the area. Its staff comprises specialists described as
"real pioneers in the area [of sexual addiction]. These are all
legitimate, licensed psychotherapists who happen to have a strong Christian
orientation to therapy," according to the director.[29]
Does their "Christian" orientation
happen to be solid enough to allow these psychotherapists to admit that
lasciviousness is sin? Evidently not.
Interviews with several of them were in the article. They consistently used the
terms illness, problem, conflict, compulsive behavior, treatment, and therapy. Words
with moral overtones were carefully avoided. Sin and repentance were never
mentioned.
Worse than this, these so-called experts scoffed
at the power of God's Word to transform a heart and break the bondage of sexual
sin. The article quoted the
center's program director as he explained why he believes his treatment center
specifically for Christians is essential: "There are some groups of
Christians who believe the Bible is all you need."[30]
That statement is the echo of neo-gnosticism. Belittling those who believe the Bible is
sufficient, these latter-day "clouds without water" (Jude 12) insist
that they are privy to a higher, more sophisticated secret knowledge that holds
the real answer to what troubles the human soul. Christians must not be
intimidated by their false claims. No higher knowledge, no hidden truth,
nothing besides the all-sufficient resources that are in Christ exists that can
change the human heart.
Any counselor who wants to honor God and be
effective must see the goal of his efforts as leading a person to the
sufficiency of Christ. The view
that man is capable of solving his own problems, or that people can help one
another by "therapy" or other merely human means, denies the doctrine
of human depravity and man's need for God. It replaces the Spirit's
transforming power with impotent human wisdom.
A "must listen" free (audio) MP3: Self-Esteem: Myth or Marvel by Richard Ganz
Free MP3 at http://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?currSection=sermonsspeaker&sermonID=12220485419
A Summary of
the Christian Life. Of Self-denial; A Believer Is To Be Living Sacrifice by
John Calvin (free MP3)
PSYCHOHERESY: The
Psychological Seduction of Christianity by Martin and Deidre Bobgan (free
ebook)
Exposes the fallacies and failures
of psychological counseling theories and therapies for one purpose: to call
Christians back to God's Word and the Holy Spirit's work; reveals the
anti-Christian biases, internal contradictions, and documented failures of
secular psychotherapy; examines various amalgamations with Christianity;
explodes myths that undergird these unholy unions.
The
Bible and Psychology by Jim Savastio (there are 12 MP3s in this
series)
Free MP3 at http://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?currSection=&sermonID=1120321823
The Bible and
Psychology (1 of 12) by Jim Savastio (free MP3)
Jim
Savastio discusses the sufficiency of the Scriptures and the Church even in the
matters of psychology.
The Bible and
Psychology (2 of 12) by Jim Savastio (free MP3)
There
is that which is rooted and grounded in the truth and that which is of the
traditions of men. Jim Savastio explains three myths concerning psychology
today. 1. The myth that psychology is a simple
science. 2. The myth that psychology
is effective. 3. The mythology of
labels.
The Bible and
Psychology (3 of 12) by Jim Savastio (free MP3)
Deals
with worldviews, sex, sexuality, marriage, parenting, Larry Crabb,
Integrationists, creation, evolution, Alfred Kinsey, homosexuality, despair,
depression, peace, heart happiness, Psalm one, the blessed man, brokenness,
sin, Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Carl Rogers, science, etc.
The Bible and
Psychology (4 of 12) by Jim Savastio (free MP3)
On
the interplay between body and soul and why secular psychology can't deal with
the most important matters of life (i.e., the maters relating to the soul).
Secular
Psychology and Christianity: Two World Views by Dr. Richard Ganz
(free MP3)
Exposing psychoheresy
and its increasing stranglehold on the Church (free chapters and articles)
How John Calvin Led Me to Repent of Christian Psychology by Pastor
Steven J. Cole (Must reading!)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1396592/posts
Providential Care by Jay
Adams
"In my opinion,
unless a counselor is well aware of how God works for the good of His children,
and is able to communicate something of those facts to counselees in times of
distress, he will be a pretty sorry counselor." - Jay Adams
Report Highlights Pedophile Connections of American
Psychological Association
"Americans for
Pedophile Advocacy? Dutch pedophilia advocate Theo Sandfort is a Fellow with the
American Psychological Society (APA).
As part of his "research," Sandfort once interviewed 25 boys from
between the ages of 10 and 16 who were in "sexual relationships" with
adults. The adult predators took Sandfort to interview their underage sexual
"partners" (i.e., their child victims). "For virtually all
the boys... the sexual contact itself was experienced positively,"
Sandfort duly reported. Not surprisingly, the APA, which has an overwhelming
pro-homosexualist bias, has worked to cast doubt on the idea that people
practicing homosexuality can make the healthy transition to heterosexuality... In 1998, the APA
released a study by three psychological researchers from
Temple University, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of
Michigan, claiming that the "negative potential" of adult sex with
children was "overstated" and that "the vast majority of both
men and women reported no negative sexual effects from their child sexual abuse
experiences." It even claimed that large numbers of the victims
reported that their experiences were "positive," and suggested that
the phrase "child sex abuse" be replaced with "adult-child
sex."
The APA not only passed the paper through its
peer review process where it was approved by multiple psychologists associated
with the organization, but actually published it in one of its journals, Psychological
Bulletin. Moreover, when objections were raised by
radio talk show host Dr. Laura Schlessinger and various pro-family groups, the
organization defended the article for an entire year. It was also defended by the
American Association for the Advancement of Science,
which chillingly stated that it "saw no clear evidence of improper
application of methodology or other questionable practices on the part of the
article's authors."
The publication of the paper was only one
example of such lunacy by mental health professionals in peer-reviewed journals.
One of the three authors of the study, Robert Bauserman, has a history of
publishing pedophilia-advocacy "studies," including one for the
now-defunct journal Paidika: The Journal of
Paedophilia, whose editors admitted to being pedophiles.
Another apologist for child sex abuse who has
received acceptance, affirmation, and recognition from the mental health
professions is Dr. Theo Sandfort, who is currently an Associate
Professor of Clinical Sociomedical Sciences (in Psychiatry) at Colombia
University. Sandfort published a study in 1981 that claimed that boys
as young as 10 years old had "positive" experiences in their
"sexual relationships" with adults.
While he was co-director of
the research program of the Department of Gay and Lesbian Studies at the
University of Utrecht, Netherlands, Sandfort interviewed 25 boys from between
the ages of 10 and 16 who were in such "sexual relationships" -- that
is, they were being sexually abused by adults. In fact, the abusers themselves
took Sandfort to their victims so he could interview them. When the
victims gave Sandfort their "positive" responses, he duly recorded
them.
"For virtually all the
boys… the sexual contact itself was experienced positively," Sandfort
wrote, without a hint of irony.
The fact that Sandfort was promoting the
sexual abuse of minors with the help of their victimizers didn't seem to faze
him. Nor did it faze his then-employers at the
University of Utrecht. Nor did it faze the prestigious University of
Colombia, which later gave him a professorship, even after he went on to write
articles such as "Pedophile relationships in the Netherlands:
Alternative Lifestyles for Children?" and books such as "Childhood Sexuality: Normal Sexual Behavior and
Development" (2000)."
It hasn't fazed the APA either, which has named
Sandfort a "fellow" of the organization since 2002.
The
Spirit in Counseling by John MacArthur
Many Christian counselors are guilty of ignoring
the divine Counselor. It's time to rediscover His role.
I think it's no exaggeration to say that the
Christian counseling scene today is in total shambles. I'm not talking about true Christian counseling–that which trusts the Bible
and the power of the Holy Spirit to conform a person to Christ–that kind of
counseling has been successfully changing sinners since the apostolic age. I'm
talking about pseudo-counseling -- the attempt to fix people with a blend of
secular psychological theory and the Bible. But have integrationist counselors
affected any real change among evangelical Christians? Are people really fixed?
It has been sad to see so many Christians seek
counsel from Christian psychotherapists who fumble around with theories
developed by Sigmund Freud, Carl Rogers and B. F. Skinner. Psychology and talk
therapy are so bankrupt that many are abandoning them to embrace biological
psychiatry. Psychotropic medicine is the new savior. Problems that were once
blamed on dysfunctional families and Id/Superego conflict are now charged to
chemical imbalances and disorders.
Yesterday's psychology and today's psychiatry share
the same fatal errors -- they reject the total depravity of man due to sin;
they treat the symptoms instead of the heart; and they aim for change that is
not true sanctification.
In spite of obvious failure, the notion prevails
within the church that psychotherapy and psychiatry are more effective agents
of change -- particularly in dealing with the most difficult cases -- than the
Holy Spirit who sanctifies. But can psychotherapy or psychiatry possibly
accomplish something the Holy Spirit cannot? Can an earthly therapist achieve
more than a heavenly Comforter? Is behavior modification more helpful than
sanctification? Of course not.
Psychology:
Science or Religion?
Pyschotherapy vs. the Bible
by C.J. Mahaney (Free video on YouTube)
The Biblical View
of Self-Esteem, Jay Adams, 32 pp. (PDF)
A strong response to
"Christian psychology," in which many seem to perceive the
shared enemy of low self-esteem. Adams gives a clear and pointed
exposition of the relevant Scriptures, and offers every believer a truly
Biblical view.
A
Biblical View of Self-Esteem: An Explanation of Key Verses
The attached Bible verse explanations
(New Testament and Old Testament) detail how God views us and how we should
view ourselves. Taken in proper context, the attached Biblical references
clearly indicate that there is no Biblical basis for self-esteem,
self-love, self-acceptance, self-confidence, self-forgiveness, self-assertion,
"proper" self-image, self-actualization, or any of the other selfisms
advocated by the worldly system of psychology. The Bible's answer for our
emotional "problems": turn from self to Christ (and His
all-sufficient Word).
Study Biblical Counseling with Dr. Jay Adams
Institute for Nouthetic Studies (Jay Adams)
What
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How
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Nouthetic
counselors oppose the use of medicine, don't they? by Jay Adams
I
have heard that you call the Bible a textbook for counseling. How can you say
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What
empirical evidence do you have that Nouthetic counseling is superior to other
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If
Nouthetic counseling is what you say it is, why are some people so upset about
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shouldn't Christians use the methods of men like Freud, Rogers and others? by
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The Monster
Nnown as Kinsey by Joseph Farah
Will America be
equally shocked to learn that one of the most famous and influential
researchers in modern history conducted and sponsored experiments on hundreds
of young children, even infants, that included raping them? It seems too
unbelievable to be true. Yet it is fully documented – and now an elderly
survivor of that horror has come forward to tell her story.
In a
multi-part series of exposés running now in WND, "Esther White,"
a pseudonym for a woman now in her 70s and living in California, tells how, at
age 7, celebrated sex researcher Alfred Kinsey encouraged her father – even
paying him – to rape her repeatedly for "data" that could be used in
his internationally best-selling books, "Sexual Behavior of the Human
Male" and "Sexual Behavior in the Human Female."
While the Kinsey
Institute has asserted the research used in those works was gathered from
interviews with pedophiles about their past activity, the new charge by a
victim of Kinsey's nightmarish experiments reveals he was actively involved in
perpetrating horrific and monstrous crimes against children – crimes that still
haunt survivors today.
Those crimes
would be shocking enough if they happened in a social vacuum. But they did not.
Kinsey's research has largely shaped America's notions of sex ever since his
work was published decades ago. It was the kindling that ignited the sexual
revolution of the 1960s, leading to abortion on demand, the radical feminist
agenda, the loosening of restrictions on pornography, no-fault divorce laws and
the gender-bending demands of the so-called "gay rights" movement
that is radically redefining marriage, the oldest social institution on the
planet.
It was this
barbaric "research" a generation ago that has led directly to the
sexual victimization of a new generation today in public-school classrooms
across America where innocence is shattered with lessons on how to perform oral
sex, sodomy and intercourse without the slightest concerns about the social,
emotional and psychological impact on young children.
Nearly 70 years
after being raped repeatedly by her own father at the direction of Kinsey, the
victim is speaking out in hope of prompting Congress to investigate the
"research."
No matter how you
slice it, Kinsey's crimes were more serious and had more impact on our society
than anything that occurred during the shocking Tuskegee experiments.
What Kinsey
perpetrated was the torture of children – even babies.
Stunner! Kinsey paid my father to
rape me: Subject of 1940s 'research' goes public with horrific details of abuse
by dad
The
following report is part of WND's ongoing, multipart investigation into alleged
crimes committed by sex-research pioneer Alfred Kinsey and his Kinsey
Institute.
"There's no question that Kinsey broke a number of laws
and conspired to break a number of laws to conduct his faux research,"
said Matt Barber, a law professor and associate dean at the Liberty University
School of Law.
Kinsey's 1948 and 1953 books on human sexual behavior contain tables of information about sexual responses in children as young as 2 months old. Several tables record how long the children needed to be stimulated to achieve "orgasm," and others record how many orgasms the children achieved in given periods of time.
Find out who launched the sexual 'devolution,' and
opened the door to the abyss
The Kinsey Syndrome
Written &
Directed by Christian J. Pinto
Produced by Joe
Schimmel & Christian J. Pinto (Offsite, DVD $19.95)
The Kinsey Syndrome unfolds the work and influence of Dr. Alfred Kinsey,
considered to be "the father of the sexual revolution." But did Kinsey liberate America from its prudish
view of sex? Or help to unleash the horrors of our present society?
This documentary shows how "The Kinsey Reports"
have been used to change the laws concerning sex crimes in America, resulting
in the minimal sentences so often given to rapists and pedophiles. Further
explained is that the Kinsey data laid the foundation for sex education --
training teachers, psychologists and even Catholic priests in human sexuality.
What has been the consequence? And what was Kinsey's research really based
upon?
Working secretly in his attic, Dr. Kinsey was one of America's
original pornographers. His influence inspired Hugh Hefner to launch Playboy
Magazine - the "soft" approach to porn - which in time would escalate
the widespread use of pornography through magazines, cable TV and the Internet. In 2006 the California Child Molestation & Sexual Abuse
Attorneys reported that: "The number of victims of childhood sexual abuse
and molestation grows each year. This horrific crime is directly tied to the
growth of pornography on the Internet."
Perhaps most disturbing, Alfred Kinsey has been accused of
training pedophiles to work with stopwatches and record the responses of
children being raped - all in the name of "science." Among his workers was a Nazi pedophile whose relationship to
Kinsey was exposed in a German court. The information from these crimes was
then recorded in "Table 34" of Kinsey's Sexual Behavior in the Human
Male. How can lawmakers use such a document to define the moral parameters of
our society?
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(SIGMUND FREUD, CARL ROGERS, B.F. SKINNER, NEW AGE MYSTICISM) vs. THE BIBLE
Psychobabble:
The Failure of Modern Psychology and the Biblical Alternative #1 by Richard Ganz
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Pedophilia No
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A
Treatise of Self-Denial by Richard Baxter (99 cents)
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"Idolatry
in its larger meaning is properly understood as any substitution of what is
created for the creator. People
may worship nature, money, mankind, power, history or social and political
systems instead of the God who created them all. The New Testament writers, in
particular, recognized that the relationship need not be explicitly one of
cultic worship; a man can place anyone or anything at the top of his pyramid
of values, and that is ultimately what he serves. The ultimacy of that service profoundly affects
the way he lives. When the society around him also turns away from God to
idols, it is an idolatrous society and therefore is heading for destruction. Western society, in turning away from Christian
faith, has turned to other things. This process is commonly called
secularization, but that conveys only the negative aspect. The word connotes
the turning away from the worship of God while ignoring the fact that something
is being turned to in its place."
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Psychology vs.
Christianity & the Bible
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Christianity Versus
Psychology
http://www.newswithviews.com/Ohara/debbie16.htm
Take
Your Thoughts Captive by Richard Ganz
http://www.crosswalk.com/faith/ministry_articles/guestcolumns/509888.html
Is Good Self-Esteem
Important for a Christian, and How Is It Developed? by David J. Engelsma
http://www.prca.org/pamphlets/pamphlet_57.html
The
Myth That Psychology Is Scientific
The Myth
of Psychological Labels
The
Myth That Psychology Is Effective
The
Myth That Psychology Is Motivated by Compassion
Wake up, it's time to
take a stand!
http://www.behindthebadge.net/articles/a108.html
The End of
"Christian Psychology"
https://pamweb.org/
Counseling Encourages
Talebearing
https://pamweb.org/
CARL JUNG: PSYCHOLOGIST OR
SORCERER?
The Psychoanalytic
Stream of Psychology: Freud's Legacy to "Christian Psychology"
(Warning: This Stream is Polluted)
Freud was adamantly opposed to
Christianity. Freud taught that religious doctrines are all illusions and that
religion is "the universal obsessional neurosis of humanity." He
viewed religion as the source of mental problems and thus formed all of his
notions from a godless position. Nevertheless, Freud's views influenced our
culture to the degree that many Christians began to doubt the effectiveness of
the Bible and the church in dealing with life's problems. All the while, Freud
argued that belief in God was delusionary and therefore evil. Psychotherapy,
from its very beginning, created doubt about Christianity. Freud effectively
eroded confidence in Christianity and established negative ideas concerning
Christianity that prevail today. He negatively influenced the faith and
affected the attitudes of many people concerning the role of the church in
healing troubled souls.
Freud,
Jung, Maslow, Rogers, et al.
While the therapist is the central
figure in psychotherapy, the Bible's teaching on the "care of souls"
describes no such central figure. It speaks only of exhorting and encouraging
one another, of discipling the new believer, and of discipline within the
church. In so speaking, Scripture presents a complete, authoritative, and
sufficient theology of soul care. It is a theology both distinctive from and
clearly opposed to that which has evolved in the practice of psychotherapy.
Bible Verses about
Psychologists
Christ:
Sufficient for You by David & Tamra Lee
http://www.eternallifeministries.org/d&tl_sufficient.htm
The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment - booklet by
Jeremiah Burroughs (1599-1646) (PDF)
FREE MP3s
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Psychology
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How
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The Bad Root
of Psychology by Ernest King
A
Testimony of Conversion #1 by Richard Ganz (Richard Ganz, when he was a psychologist, was
fired for sharing the Gospel with his patients shortly after he became a
Christian. This story and many others are recounted in this stirring testimony
to the sovereign grace of God.)
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A
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Smashing
Anxiety for a Life of Joy by Richard Ganz
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How
To Face Any Problem #01 by Richard Ganz (four MP3s in this series beginning at the URL below)
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Developing
Domination Over Depression by Richard Ganz
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Solving
Marital Problems, Pt 1 by Brian Schwertley (three MP3s in this series beginning at the
URL below)
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Who
Are We? Psychology's View and Scripture's View by Ed Welch
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The
Book of Job #03: The Psychology of Depression by Jim Moore
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The Ultimate
Discipline by Richard Ganz - 56
min
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When Life
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Brief Sermon Overview:
Most of the Bible is in the major key. Saints
fearlessly witnessing, churches valiantly serving against all odds and what a
joy those sections are to our souls. But side-by-side with all that is the
minor key. God's Word contains true glimpses into the weaknesses and frailties
that God understands and shows us in the lives of some of His greatest saints.
These are men and women who were sad, discouraged, and depressed -- yet the
Lord does not correct them and tell them they are in sin. He just encourages
them and helps them go on. Life in the minor key -- is it always sin that makes
us depressed? Is it always a sin to be depressed? No, it is not, is the answer
from God's Word.
God's View
of Homosexuality (1 of 2) by Pastor John MacArthur
God's View
of Homosexuality (2 of 2) by Pastor
John MacArthur
The Bible and
Homosexuality by David Silversides
A Christian
View of Psychology by Kevin Swanson
Similarly in counseling, when the development of
self-love, or self-esteem, or a positive self-image is the prevailing motif, a
secondary reflex has usurped the place of the primary goal. The contentment you
get from thinking about yourself as a faithful disciple of Christ is secondary,
and ought always to remain secondary, to the contentment experienced in the
actual event of faith and obedience itself. To change this order is to run
the risk of the worst kind of idolatry...
Paul would disapprove of a counseling motif that diverted people's attention
from the infinite value of the glory of God and the attainment of that value
through faith and its fruits. He would disapprove of making self-love or self-esteem or a positive self-image
the goal of our admonition. Rather, he would have us aim so to transform
people's values that their contentment and joy be grounded always in the love
of God, the esteem of his glory, and the steady focus on his image.
- Self-love
and the Christian Counselor's Task by John Piper
John MacArthur, THE
PSYCHOLOGY & PSYCHIATRY EPIDEMIC & ITS CURE (NOUTHETIC BIBLICAL
COUNSELING)
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books Exposing psychoheresy and its increasing stranglehold on the Church
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Person to Person Ministry: Soul Care in the Body of
Christ
PsychoHeresy: The Psychological Seduction of Christianity
Competent to
Minister: The Biblical Care of Souls
Christ-Centered
Ministry versus Problem-Centered Counseling
The End of
"Christian Psychology"
12 Steps to
Destruction: Codependency Recovery Heresies
Four Temperaments,
Astrology & Personality Testing
Hypnosis:
Medical, Scientific or Occultic?
Against
"Biblical Counseling": For the Bible
James Dobson's
Gospel of Self-Esteem & Psychology
CRI (Christian
Research Institute) Guilty of PSYCHOHERESY?
TheoPhostic
Counseling: Divine Revelation? OR PsychoHeresy?
El ministerio
centrado en Cristo comparado con el asesoramiento centrado en el problema
(The Spanish translation of Christ-Centered Ministry versus Problem-Centered
Counseling.)
El Fin de la
"PSICOLOGÍA CRISTIANA
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The End of Christian Psychology.)
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QUESTIONS & ANSWERS |
During the past 15 to 20 years a dramatic shift has taken place in American Christianity: Psychology has flooded into the church. Christian psychologists are now the ones many Christians primarily look to for guidance in the Christian life. Christian psychologists write many of the best-selling books and dominate much of Christian radio. Many pastors use psychological terms and concepts in their sermons.
When anything new floods into the church,
it needs to be evaluated in the light of Scripture, our only infallible guide
for faith and practice. Many Christians are confused about
"Christian" psychology: Should it be gladly embraced, used
cautiously, or rejected outright? What follows are some common questions I've
encountered and answers based upon God's Word as I've wrestled with this issue.
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Pastor Steven J. Cole
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Psychobabble explains the dichotomy between
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techniques into a Christian aproach. This book will provide scriptural answers
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Excellent Book About Biblical
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Ganz's book has shown me that pursuing a
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namely psychology, would be futile. I always felt that the line between
"Christian" psychology and secular psychology was very blurred;
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There is so much in God's Word that confirms Ganz's position about Biblical
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believe what God says in His Word. "Do not be anxious for anything..."
(Phil. 4:6-7). (From Augusta, Georgia United States).
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personal journey, and encourages his readers to take a bold stance for Christ.
This is a book that confronts modern psychotherapy with the Word of God. Within
its pages we see Ganz cutting away the fluff of this "feel good"
theology that has crept into our homes and churches; he reveals the "Psycho..."
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Over 950 (8.5 inch by 11 inch) pages long,
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writes, "We have long waited for a purely
Biblical treatment of the spiritual ills and cures of men which is untainted by
the views of psychology. Since Baxter lived about 200 years before psychology
arrived, his deep work is completely void of its encroachment -- thankfully!"
The sub-titles gives a good summary of the
book, being, "A Sum of Practical Theology
and Cases of Conscience. Directing Christians How to Use Their Knowledge and
Faith; How to Improve all Helps and Means, and to Perform all Duties; How to
Overcome Temptations, and to Escape or Mortify Every Sin. In Four Parts: 1.)
Christian Ethics (or Private Duties); 2.) Christian Economics (or Family
Duties); 3.) Christian Ecclesiatics (or Church Duties); 4.) Christian politics
(or Duties to Our Rulers and Neighbors)."
Ptacek, in Family Worship (pp. 51-52), supplies the following information in
regard to Baxter and this book. He notes that after the Episcopalians ejected
numerous "nonconformists," in what is know as the "great
ejection,' in 1662,
Baxter pastored from house to house,
visiting families of his parish in their homes. These visits contributed to
Baxter's A Christian Directory,
a large and still very relevant manual of pastoral
care." Focusing on just one area of great importance, Ptacek
demonstrates how this book's relevance is not limited by time or culture,
though sometimes the use of specific words are. "Published in 1673, but
written 1664-65, a large book-length part of
Baxter's Christian Directory is
devoted to the family. It is entitled 'Christian Economics' based on
the archaic usage of the word, which reflects the proper sense of the Greek
root oikonomos as the manager of a household, in the Christian case, the
spiritual leader of the family. The family head is essential to Baxter's view
of family worship and instruction.
Baxter asserts that it is God's will that this instruction be carried out by
'the rulers of the families.' For a male head of the household to fail to do
so, or to have another instruct in the family, is contrary to his position of
authority.
This is the kind of book that can be
passed on from generation to generation and still find much use in the service
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A
Christian Directory: A Sum of Practical Theology and Cases of Conscience... by
Richard Baxter
The following three samples
from the above book, The
Duties of Parents For Their Children (From: Baxter's Practical Works, Vol. 1, A Christian Directory, on
Christian Economics, Chap. X., pp. 449-454), The
Special Duties Of Children Towards Their Parents (From: Baxter's
Practical Works, Vol. 1, A Christian Directory , on Christian Economics, Chap. XI., pp. 454-457), and The Special Duties Of Children And Youth Towards God
(From: Baxter's Practical Works, Vol. 1, A Christian Directory, on Christian
Economics, Chap. XII., pp.
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BAXTER,
RICHARD
This item "is the work of Baxter that
has been translated into the most number of different languages" (Kettler,
Sept./97 letter).
It is also a great antidote to the
prominent spirit (of antichrist) preached by psychologist and psychiatrists
which focuses on self (self-esteem, self-actualization, etc.) and/or hedonism,
in an idolatrous manner, rather than self-sacrifice and service in obedience to
God.
"Knowing this first, that there shall
come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,... This know
also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers
of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to
parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false
accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors,
heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; Having a form
of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away." (2 Pet.
3:3, 2 Tim. 3:1-5).
Though relatively weak on corporate
sanctification, corporate faithfulness and some important areas of doctrine
(such as justification), Baxter's work on subjects related to personal piety
can be of good practical use to the Christian -- if one is careful to separate
out his aberrant doctrinal views and any practical errors they may lead to. He
certainly practiced what he preached on self-denial as he was willing to suffer
for what he believed: though at times his weakness and compromising spirit is
most evident, as seen in this account by Barker:
"He was invited by the officers of
Oliver Cromwell's newly raised cavalry troop at Cambridge to be their pastor,
as of a gathered (i.e. independent--RB) church, but he rejected the invitation
with a reproof against what he considered as unlawful. After the Battle of
Naseby in June 1645 Baxter visited Cromwell's camp and was appalled at the
'hot-headed sectaries' he found in leading positions in the Army. Cromwell
himself received him cooly and confronted him with his refusal to serve his now
victorious regiment. As a result he agreed to become a chaplain to Colonel
Whalley's regiment and continued with the Army through several siege
operations" (Puritan Profiles,
pp. 290-291).
Further perfidy is exhibited in that
"he opposed the Solemn League and Covenant even though he had rashly
signed it" (Ibid.). He also compromised by obtaining a licence to preach
-- with ninety other backsliding ministers -- under the sinful Indulgence of
1672; but was later imprisoned under James II.
Nevertheless he "praised the
Westminster Confession as 'the most excellent for fullness and exactness he had
ever read from any Church'" (Ibid.) and this book is must reading for all
Christians who would like to progress in personal sanctification, godliness and
holiness.
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