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Psychology is a field that I respect. I do believe that our mind is one piece of the pie. The other two are our spirit and body. However, what is distrubing is how Psychology has become it's own religion. Psychologists & psychiatrists use their methods and understanding of the brain, emotions, and thoughts to determine everything about a person. They use their practice to crush piety and proscribe drugs or exercises to fix the problem. Psycharitrists and Psychologists make the mind their only measuring stick. If you have erratic emotions, it is bi-polar disorder, but if they had been privy to your traumatic history it is Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). These terms have become so engrained in people that they are used loosly in arguments. People in the Church of psychology use their minds as measuring sticks much like the Ancient Greeks did. One could argue that like the proliferation of Norse beliefs these days, the Greek pantheon of gods is returning in a more persuasive form. Pyschologists use Narcissus to describe a Narcissist, a person who cares only about themselves and is vain to the point of hurting others. Pyschologists call a man who has close bond to his mother an Odeipus, that they suffering from an Oedipus Complex, which if you know Sophocles' play Odeipus the King, this is a heavy label and quite insulting. Even Bi-Polar represents Gemini, the two twins who are opposite in behavior.

 As believers we have placed great stock in pyschians and psychologists to help us with our problems. Rather than run to a pastor or better yet God himself, we often get in the car and head for the hospital and if that is not forthcoming we head to a counselor. I am not saying that you should not ever go to a doctor or a psychologist; they can be helpful. However, putting your trust in the hands of men always leads to folly. We ask why mircales are not as prevelant these days, well the answer is that we are idolaters. Instead of going to Christ who healed the lame and mended the minds of demon possessed people, we run to psychologists and physcians. In other countires like Africa, there are ministers and pastors who so believe that the Holy Spirit can heal and do the miraculous that eyes grow back, the dead raise back to life, and people have their minds cleansed and return to normal! Perhaps the reason why such mircales are rare in America and other countries so dependant on psych worshippers, is that we have placed God below our doctor and our psychologist.
 
To change this attitude around, we as believers need to put our trust in Christ Jesus and stop letting fear motivate us to run to doctors. If it is serious, then by all means make for the hospital, but do not forget that Jesus is the "great physician" and that the Father is known as Jehovah Rapha (The Lord that Heals). Let us turn back to God and reserve men as only a secondary place to seek help from.

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