Colossians 2:8
Beware 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.
One of the great modern day tragedies is the fact that much of the professing church has gone out after the world. Pulpits are inhabited by those who are preaching psychology and practicing psychiatry, rather than proclaiming the word of God. There is no spiritual power in psychiatry and psychology; they essentially serve as enemy weapons of vain deceit. When the world rejects the truth, it creates and fabricates its own truth for lack of any other answer.
We see this same mindset in the theory of evolution. The madmen of the world have rejected God's explanation, having created their own version, teaching and proclaiming it as truth, when in reality it's a lie.
The philosophies and theories of this world are built on "vain deceit, the traditions of men, and the rudiments of this world," rather than upon the truth. Psychiatry and psychology do not understand the realities of sin. When a system, a theory, or philosophy does not understand and base its foundation upon truth; it will prove itself to be built upon a faulty foundation. Man finds himself sinking today because he has built upon sinking sand, rather than upon the Rock of Truth. Truth defines man's basic problem as that of having a sinful nature, a spiritual problem which can only be dealth with by the Spirit of Christ. When that basic nature is neglected, ignored, and even denied, there is no adequate source for remedy.
Man is internally plagued by a sin-sick soul, and Jesus Christ is the only sufficient remedy. He alone is the Great Physician who can heal the sin-sick soul of man. Psychology essentially teaches that man needs to love himself more, he needs more self-esteem. Truth teaches that man is full of himself, he has too much self-esteem; he needs to humble himself, deny himself, and recognize himself as lost in sin, undone and under the sentence of death. Until he recognizes his sin, and turns to Christ as the healer of his sin-sick soul, he will continue to stagger like a drunkard, full of himself and the philosophies of the world.
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