The Truth About Psychology and Psychiatry
Genesis 1:1-2:4; Psalm 19:7-11; Proverbs 3:1-6; Isaiah 55:8,9-11,6-7; 66:1-2; John 1:1-17; 17:17; Colossians 2:8 ; II Timothy 3:16-17; Isaiah 46:8-10
I have chosen, for clarification in this study, to capitalize the word truth (“Truth”) anytime it refers to God’s Holy Word as opposed to not doing so (“truth”) when referencing the finite, flawed opinions of men.
Psychology and psychiatry, as known in the 21st century, is the mature “refined” birth-child of primarily two individuals born in the 19th century – one who is generally referred to and accepted as the “father” of the myriads of subjective schools of psychology that exist today – Sigmund Freud, born in 1856 of Jewish parents in the Moravian town of Freiburg, in the then Austrian Empire and died in 1939 in London, UK. The second individual is the English naturalist, Charles Darwin. As is well known, Darwin, because of his book “The Origin of Species”, is clearly recognized as the “father” of the modern, world wide obsession with and embracing of the theory of evolution as the “only plausible explanation” of the origin of the human race. Darwin was born in 1809 in Shrewsbury, Shropshire UK and died in 1882 in Downe, Kent UK.
Freud was a life long openly avowed atheist who repeatedly ridiculed and mocked those who professed belief in God at any level, declaring such belief to be a sign of weakness born out of a need to explain the issues of life. Freud declared religion to be a weakness that needed to be overcome (Romans 1:18,19-32 – don’t miss the Biblical testimony of the evil of Freud’s teaching and practice as evidenced by the fact that every single perverted behavioral manifestation of man’s rejection of God and His truth identified in Romans 1:18-32, Freud’s evil theories embraced as being acceptable due to being caused primarily by the failures of the individuals parents or the failure of society). Freud was, throughout his life, a proponent of Darwin’s theories and clearly contrived all of his subjective psychoanalytic theories of the nature and problems of humanity based on his blasphemous, atheistic belief that man was, as Darwin stated, simply the pinnacle animal in the ever upward moving evolutionary process (Jude 1:8,10-11). Freud’s Satanically inspired (Genesis 3:1-5; 6:5; John 8:43-47), totally skewed, finite, irrational beliefs and ensuing theories of human sexuality, women, marriage, and the family (parent/child relations) laid the perfect foundation in this modern era for Satan to continue his longstanding war against God and God’s righteous standards for these various realities of human living via the modern, ungodly feminist/homosexual escalating assault on God’s purposes and righteous order for marriage and the family (Psalm 92:4-7; Proverbs 16:4; Romans 1:18-19,20-23; Revelation 20:10,11-15).
Darwin, born 47 years before Freud, in like manner, although at one point in his life he still believed that God was the ultimate lawgiver, and viewed Him as a First Cause, thus viewing himself as a theist, did however, persist throughout his life to describe religion as “a tribal survival strategy”. Darwin was in reality, based on his own writings and life style, even though, at one point, denying being an atheist in the sense of denying the existence of God, stating that generally “an Agnostic would be the more correct description…..” of his “state of mind.”, was avowedly a practical atheist as Freud was a “denying of God” atheist. In his private autobiography, writing of the period from October 1836 to January 1839, he states that “…..I had gradually come, by this time, to see that the Old Testament from its manifestly false history of the world, with the Tower of Babel, rainbow as a sign, etc., etc., and from its attributing to God the feelings of a revengeful tyrant, was no more to be trusted than the sacred books of the Hindoos, or the beliefs of any barbarian.” At another time he gave the following evaluation of Christianity. He stated that he could “hardly see how anyone ought to wish Christianity to be true; for if so the plain language of the text (he refers to John 13:34; 14:6; 15:6) seems to show that the men who do not believe, and this would include my father, brother and almost all my best friends, will be everlastingly punished. And this is a damnable doctrine.” (I Corinthians 2:14; Romans 1:18-19). As such, Darwin chose to believe and teach that man was nothing more than the pinnacle result of his (Darwin’s) subjective, non scientific theory of the evolutionary origin of all things. At one point, later in his life, Darwin acknowledged in a letter to a colleague, that he recognized that his theories were not plausible, and that they were unscientific and illogical, but that he would continue to promote and teach them as fact because he was determined to rid himself of any consideration of the possibility of there being a God of judgement and wrath (Romans 1:18-32).
Modern psychology and psychiatry are, as previously stated, the matured, refined product of the birth-child (19th-21st centuries) of the combined belief systems of these two 19th century men – Charles Darwin (1809-1882) and Sigmund Freud (1856-1939).
The focus of this brief paper will be on, as the title indicates, “The Truth About Psychology and Psychiatry”. Contrary to the much stated subjective opinion of men, there are not multiple sources or versions of Truth. There are not multiple correct interpretations of God’s Word. There is one and only one accurate interpretation of any and every verse of God’s Holy Word. The popular idea, both in the world and in the visible church, that “all truth is God’s truth” is in reality a Satanically inspired oxymoronic impossibility. Truth is absolute (Psalm 19:7-11; 119:160; Proverbs 30:5-6; II Peter 1:19-21; Revelation 22:18-19) and is revealed by God in His Holy Word, the Bible, as recorded by faithful men, supernaturally inspired by God’s Holy Spirit who then supernaturally imparts, with understanding resulting from diligent study(II Timothy 2:15; Proverbs 3:1-6; Psalm 119:9,125-128,138,140,142,143,160; Hebrews 5:14), the Truth therein to true followers of Jesus Christ – II Timothy 3:16-17,14-15(John 1:1-14; 3:1-6,16-18; Mark 1:15; Ephesians 1:3-6; 2:8-10; I Corinthians 3:16-17; 2:6-13,14,15-16; I John 2:20,27).
The very nature of Truth – absoluteness – precludes there being any other source of Truth. The truth that men speak of and embrace when adhering to statements like “all truth is God’s truth”, is in reality not Truth, but human opinion said to be truth.
There is one consistently manifested fact that exposes the propositions of psychology and psychiatry for the subtle, but nevertheless, deceitful, hateful hoax that they are. In referring to this hoax being “hateful” I do so because, whether intentional or not, to propose to be giving someone the Truth that will inform them as to how they should address the issues of their life, when it isn’t the Truth, is indeed, not a loving thing, but a hateful, deceiving thing. The one fact to which I refer that is purposely obscured by the empty, professed to be True, rhetoric of the incessant barrage of psychological jargon spewed out on the entire culture and world on a daily basis via a barrage of self appointed experts known as educators (secular and Christian), doctors, terribly ignorant, compromised preachers/pastors, TV, the media, Facebook, the internet, etc., etc.. – the one fact of which I speak is that psychologists, psychiatrists and all of the above mentioned, self-appointed proponents of the lie, refuse to acknowledge that psychology, in all its supposed authoritative diagnostic “accuracy” offers one thing – a totally subjective, opinion based “description” of human behavior. Modern psychology never has and does not today, ever offer an “explanation” of or for human behavior. This one fact exposes the world of atheistic, humanistic psychology for what it really is in the economy of God and His revealed Truth – a Satanically conceived, evil deception – a hoax. What exactly is a hoax by definition? Consider the following – “hoax: to trick into believing or accepting as genuine something false and often preposterous”. This from a current copy of Merriam Webster’s 2019 dictionary, which incidentally in the title carries the tag line, “Since 1828” . Interestingly, Noah Webster, in his 1828 edition gave a quite similar, although more succinct and to the point, definition – “hoax, as a noun: something done for deception or mockery; as a verb: to deceive; to trick”. In the New American Standard translation of God’s Word, the word “deceive” appears 22 times, in 18 different books, 12 in the Old Testament and 6 in the New Testament, beginning with Genesis 31:27 and concluding with Revelation 20:8. In every use of the word in every book it is used in it carries the meaning, in one way or another, depending on the context, of lying in order to deceive and lead away from Truth into error. In II Samuel 3:25 it describes one who has been “gullibly deceived”. In Hebrews 5:14, the writer bears testimony to the one practice in a believers life that equips and protects him from being “gullibly deceived” – Ephesians 4:14(9-16); James 4:4. That one practice is the study of God’s word (II Timothy 2:15; 3:16- 17) for the purpose of obeying it and making it be the measure of the Truth or error in what is said by others to be “the word of God”. The mature believer, as described in Hebrews 5:14, is such because he understands and practices the practice of the Bereans that Luke records in Acts 17:11 where he describes the Bereans as being more noble minded than the Thessalonicans because they, the Bereans, searched the Scripture daily to see if what they were being taught as Truth, really was the Truth. This is what every true believer must do if he or she is to be equipped to not be “gullibly deceived” by, not only modern psychology, but the whole host of additional false philosophies and belief systems fathered by Satan that we are bombarded by every day – Colossians 2:8; II Corinthians 10:3-5; I Corinthians 14:20. Be ever mindful of the fact that no where in God’s Word does He ever command us to study the false systems. To the contrary He commands us to reject them and study His Truth – Romans 16:19; I Corinthians 14:20; Deuteronomy 13:1-5; 7:5; II Chronicles 14:3; II Corinthians 11:12-15; James 4:4; II John 1:7-11. No, what He commands us to faithfully study is His Holy Word and the Holy Spirit through His Word will expose the error, every time – Deuteronomy 11:18-21; 31:6-8; Joshua 1:1-9; Hebrews 4:12; 5:12-13,14; II Peter 1:1-4,5-7,8-11.
There is no greater evidence of the reality of the hoax, namely the deceitfulness of psychology and psychiatry, than the intense, open, vitriolic rancor and hostility expressed by those who embrace this false system toward those who, by the application of the principles of God’s Word, expose it for the false system that it is – Proverbs 28:1; John 15:18-19; II Corinthians 11:13-15; Acts 4:29; Psalm 19:7-11; 119(Proverbs 4:14-15,18,23-27); II Timothy 3:16-17; 2:15; I Corinthians 3:16-17; 2:1-13,14,15-16; Proverbs 21:1,2-3,30-31; 3:1-6; 30:5-6; Micah 7:7-8; Revelation 22:18-19; Isaiah 46:8-10.
As you consider the reality of this hoax that we all live with every day, be mindful of the victory that is yours as a follower of Jesus Christ, testified to by the inspired revelation of God’s plan of redeeming love and grace contained in His infallible, inerrant, absolutely Authoritative Word – Psalm 19:7-11; Titus 1:1-2; Ephesians 1:3-6; Romans 8(all); II Peter 3:8-13; Revelation 20:10,11-15; Isaiah 55:8,9-11; 46:8-10.
On the authority of that Holy Word, and in the spirit of brotherly love expressed by Paul in Colossians 1:9-12,28 and I Thessalonians 2:8, I would, in conclusion, challenge you, as a fellow believer, as a true follower of Jesus Christ, to lovingly, trustingly embrace with all your heart and mind the glorious reality of the fact I stated at the beginning of our study, that, because the foundational nature of God’s Truth is its absolute authority, that it logically follows that, by its very nature, God’s Truth inherently precludes (“precludes: to make impossible by necessary consequence; to rule out in advance.”) there being any other source of Truth. The history of humanity is a history of Satan’s rejection of God’s Truth. His hateful rejection is manifested in his unceasing attempts via his humanistic lie that all things are relative, to elevate the flawed, ungodly, always subjective opinions of god-rejecting, spiritually blind and dead lost men above the Sovereign, eternal, immutable, inspired, clearly revealed, readily understood Holy Truth of God – Genesis 3:1-7; 6:5; Romans 1:18-32; 3:10-18; 8:6-8(3-8).