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| Gilbert Quarcoopome |
Gilbert
Ken Quarcoopome is a Masters student with United Graduate College and
Seminary International. He is focusing his studies for his Masters Degree on
Christian Psychology. He is aspiring to be a person that will help change the
world. Gilbert is an online student in Ghana Africa and has already completed
his Bachelor Degree with UGCSI.
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Christian
Psychology is more commonly called "Biblical Psychology." While it is
true that the Bible was not written as a textbook on psychology, and it nowhere
sets forth any complete psychology theories, yet we shall see that we are
correct in formulating a system of biblical psychology. The Bible no more seeks
to set forth a system of psychology than it does of ethics, theology, or any
other science. Every subject of the Word of God grows throughout the Bible as
the Holy Spirit adds details, here by a type, there by the recounting of some
historical dealing of God with sinner or saint, sometimes by explicit command,
at others by way of illustration, until the growing picture is complete in
ethics, morality, philosophy of life, and, therefore, also in Psychology.
Certainly,
since we believe that the Bible is the very Word of God and inspired, fully and
infallible as given in the original, then it speaks not with the guesses,
suppositions, assumptions and errors as man-made sciences; but it speaks with
the very wisdom of the God who made man, "And needs not that any should
testify of man for He knew what was in man."
When
the Bible speaks of sin as the underlying cause of all maladjustment, and
disorganization of personality, it speaks with God's own wisdom and it gives
the true cause of our behavior pattern. If Psychology is, both the study of
man's mental and emotional makeup as well as the study of human behavior, then
there is no other source with any comparable degree of authority as the Word of
God to unmask the heart and mind of man and to tell him the why of his darkened
mind and evil hardened heart.
Where
else can the real permanent total cure be found, psychologically, for all the
personality ills of mankind? The Psychologists say the answer is in psychiatry
and psychology. God says the answer is in regeneration, which brings a man back
into harmony and fellowship with God.
Francis
A. Schaeffer says, “The basic psychological problem is trying to be what we are
not, and trying to carry what we cannot carry. Most of all, the basic problem
is not being willing to be the creatures we are before the Creator.”
