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Psychology bondage and God’s word
I remember my college psychology studies very well. The professor had thetypical evolutionary theory about human nature. Evolution permeates as afoundation many of man’s theories. He believed that all a person’s activitieswere about self preservation.Even a mother, who runs back inside a burning house to save her child, onlydoes so to keep herself from feeling guilt. We had some great debates there.Makes you think. It would seem to make sense to a lot of young minds whohave no other reference point from which to measure.The so called father of psychology, Sigmund Freud, was a patch work of weirdness himself. Not only did he have a lot of family problems that heincorporated in his theories but Charles Darwin was one of his heroes. Healso believed some weird stuff, like the persistent notion that he would die at3 times the number 17. He didn’t.Oh well, the blind cannot lead the blind, they both will end up in the ditch.Fortunately psychology did not begin with Freud. We see it at work from thevery first in the book of Genesis. From the book of Genesis onward we seehow humans and even nature itself went into bondage, from which manyterrible things have come. All these things affect the minds of men.These things include murders, thefts, and all sorts of sexual abuse, assaults,sorceries, bad attitudes, weird thought and fears. These things constitute atall order for any discipline to deal with.These are the things psychiatry purports to help people to overcome. Intoday’s world almost everyone seems to need this help at some point in time.Something happens at School, home, Church, work, marriage, war or evenon the other side of the world and the psychiatrist is called to help peoplework through it.I remember suggesting to my professor, that the psychologist seemed toserve much of the same purpose as the local witch doctors did in many primitive societies. To my surprise, he didn’t disagree strongly.
 
When you think about it, unless there is something physically wrong thatcan be fixed, most of the rest of psychiatry is about being a sounding boardand expecting the patient to find a reference from which that person worksout a protocol of thought and actions that allow him to be able to get alongwith others and himself. That way, at least he may be productive or more productive in society. In other words, you learn to live with it, bubblingunder the surfaces of conscious, somewhere.So many individuals do not have real freedom from bondage. From the person who killed someone needlessly, abused sexually, did assaults, thefts,caused fears and hatreds to all those that were their victims, they continuallyfight the bondage to a more or less degree, all their lives.“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preachthe gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preachdeliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set atliberty them that are bruised,”…Jesus Christ, Luke 4:18In Scripture, Jesus is called the beginning of the creation of God, not because of the old creation, but because of the new. He is also called theSecond Adam, for the very same reason.As with the fall of Adam, in that creation, bondage abounds, even so withthe Second Adam (Jesus) comes freedom that much more abounds.If anyone has a heart to see this, he will.Ever wondered, why royalty in ancient Egypt, never seemed to have a problem with incest? Even Abraham married his half sister and we the people in the western world goes eeeewwww! Then we think, hold on, thatwas Abraham. Yea, many a person is in bondage right now, both the abuser and the abused for ostensibly doing what Abraham did.People standing in anger, rage and turmoil suffered until death because of these very things.Question: when there is no consciousness of error, is there any reason for shame or anger over something?
 
The Apostle Paul put it this way. “Until the law came, Sin was in the world, but sin is not reputed, where there is no law.”None of these people had a consciousness of doing wrong and was not heldguilty of any, because God is Just.But when God determined to show his way more perfectly, he knew thisknowledge would bring blessings for those who used the informationcorrectly and would make those that walked in ignorance responsible for doing wrong. So after these times, to use modern vernacular, the same acts became a psychological problem. Neither can we pretend that we are of those that do not know. Men everywhere now know. Of course that does nothelp those that have done any of the deeds above. They cannot go back intime and change their own actions or the pains of those who were anguished by abusers.The doer of these things knows he is guilty and those mistreated feel soiledand often finds themselves incapable of thinking anyway reconcilablytowards the criminal.“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preachthe gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preachdeliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set atliberty them that are bruised,”…Jesus Christ, Luke 4:18God sent Jesus, to put to death, lawfully every sinner. (Everybody) As theApostle Paul noted, “We judge (logically understand) that if one died for allthat means all IS DEAD.”Adam sinned and started a fleshly line of dying individuals. Jesus was sentto be born into that line to reverse death. Not by somehow defying God, but because of His will. And not by stopping dying flesh but by putting it todeath and giving them a new opportunity while they live out the rest of their time, to become a super being as he had with the Father before the earth was.Understand:A man who has a wife who goes to be with another is called an adulterer.But if he does the same thing after his wife is dead, he is not called anadulterer. This is a key that God used and still held on to his principles.
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Professor Stephen D. Waner

if the blind leads the blind, than they shall both surely fall into the ditch. I`ve never known the word to be wrong. no one can read the human mind except god. Hey cashprize, glad to see another fellow follower in the word. i never did like head shrinks for personal reasons. Paschar is back

reply10 / 07 / 2009
MOM UNIVERSITY

Very interesting article!

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