There I sat, in a classroom at Western Kentucky University,
learning psychology. My undergraduate degree was in mechanical engineering, so
why was I in a graduate class in psychology? I have written before, that I am a
problem-solver, and I enjoy fixing things. Usually, except for simple lawn mower
engines, since I was a child, I fixed everything that I found broken.
I had been drawn to engineering because I knew the physical sciences.
I wondered about that during my studies and concluded that, as the name suggests,
the “study” of the psyche (soul) is little more than a manual on how to
fix a broken spirit. I already had my original manual and used it often; I would
use the Bible to test the doctrines of the world.
With that said, let me explain. “Souls” cannot be broken;
they are immortal. What breaks is “spirit” and it does not really “break” but
fails much like the human heart. “Heart-broken” is a broken spirit, but rather
than “broken,” the spirit cannot be contained in a vessel used for other
things. In scriptural terms, new wine cannot be put in old bottles. What
happens when that occurs? The bottles burst and the wine runs out.
Well, the “bottle” is the soul and the “wine” is the Pneuma
of God — the very “breath of God.” Think of a “broken” soul as a corked
bottle. The “cork” is God’s hand in containing His Holy Spirit, but when His Hand
is removed, the breath of God is exhumed.
Spiritual death is when the Pneuma of God is released, whether
by slowly seeping out or bursting forth. Satan’s usual method of expulsion is
by cracking the “cork” a little at a time until the Holy Spirit of God vacates
God’s “bottle.” Note that God called His own “bottle” His “cup” or in 1600’s
English, the chalice from which the disciples drank and is considered the “Holy
Grail.”
Now for some commentary about the Holy Grail. Of course, it
has not been found in this world, because the “Holy Grail” is in Heaven sitting
at the right hand of God. Not actually at God’s right side, but Jesus as the
Cup of Yahweh. How is this for the “study of the soul?”
Now, returning to the subject at hand: living souls do not require “fixing.” Only broken souls need repaired. Adam and Eve’s were the first souls that leaked out God. In the beginning, God had breathed life unto Adam (Gen 2:7), and Adam shared that Pneuma of God with Eve:
22 And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; 23 And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. (Gen 2:22-23)
Rib? Men do not have a missing rib and each gender has
twelve pairs! Is that an exact translation? The Hebrew word tsela’ means
“side chambers or cells” as one of the translations (Strong’s Dictionary).
“Ribs” would be the “cage” for the side chambers and those multiple chambers,
seemingly lungs, but perhaps those chambers were not two lungs, but one soul
for each man and woman. My hypothesis is more meaningful than “rib” in that God
first breathed life unto Adam, then Adam shared that Pneuma with her.
Hence, Eve’s breath of life, her living soul, was taken from Adam.
Eve was mother of all, except for Adam who was co-equal and
of one flesh, or as Adam said it, “This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of
my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man” (Gen
2:23). There are three “substances” of God and three of people: Mind, Body, and
Spirit. Here Adam speaks of their common body, her dust made from his “dust” —
the same physical substances. But the creation of Eve was Holy Matrimony.
Although she was taken from Adam, God joined them together (Mat 19:6). What
joined them together? Certainly not their minds, but God’s Holy Pneuma! They
were one in Spirit, and essentially Holy Matrimony is sharing one spiritual “cup”
without it “breaking.”
My conclusion, in the study of the real soul, is that it was
not a “rib” that Adam and Eve shared but one Spirit and the very breath of God!
Now that is the real study of the soul!
Psychology, “the study of the soul,” is then inherently
wrong as psyche is not “soul” but “Spirit,” according to Strong’s
Dictionary, and is the “animated attitude.” In other words, when Adam was
animated, it was an attitude that God breathed unto him that He did not
do with the other animals in the Garden. “Psychology” is more the “study of god’s
spirit,” which raises the questions, What “god” with what “spirit?”
Psychology had its beginnings in philosophy, “the love of
wisdom.” Jews call the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, the “Wisdom Tree.”
Why so? Because everything theretofore in the Garden had been only the
knowledge of “good” and since only God is “good,” then Adam and Eve’s knowledge
was only the Doctrine of God. That Tree represented by the Tree of Life of
which “Tree” they could have eaten freely, because that “Tree” is analogous to
Jesus. I call the Tree of Wisdom, the “Philosophy
Tree” and I call the Tree of Life “Jesus Christ!” Right there in the middle of
the Garden were two philosophies — the Doctrine of God and the doctrine of sin.
The Wisdom Tree is only one of a pair, an odd couple: The
Tree of Life and the Tree of Death, and to discern which is which requires
reasoning (i.e., exercising wisdom). One Tree has free things to partake and
all those twelve fruits of the Spirit are for life. The Tree of Death contains
fruits as well, and they are evil fruits that lead to death (Gal 5). The bad
fruits that Paul wrote to the Galatians are the sins that displaces the good
fruits until the “bottle” leaks its contents, either gradually or like a
champagne bottle. How can a fellow Christian determine if God’s Holy Ghost is
properly contained within a Christian’s bottle? Whether there is the joy in the
twelve fruits of the Spirit (Act 13:52).
Are you learning the contents of the soul? Have you any
thoughts about who can repair the soul? Jesus is “Yahweh protects.”
Until Christians die, Jesus protects the soul by keeping it “safe” (Greek;
sosos). Jesus fixes the soul at glorification as he regenerates it the
same as it was generated in the beginning. At the rapture, Jesus snatches up the
dust and replaces the Pneuma which is safe within the immortal soul (the
cup or bottle). Then he provides a thoroughly cleansed “bottle” and breaths His
Pneuma back unto it, and the Christian is again a “living soul” just as
in the beginning. If anyone is not a Christian, he or she is a “dying soul” in
that God’s Pneuma has leaked out and eternal death is inevitable.
What I write herein is the “Philosophy of God” and not the
vain philosophies of inquiring minds. Paul confronted the Stoic and Epicurean
philosophers at Rome whose God was unknown (Acts 17). Those “wise men” made decisions.
Some remained comfortable with their “unknown god” and others followed the Living
God. Paul, “Reasoned with them out of the scriptures, opening and alleging,
that Christ must needs have suffered, and risen again from the dead; and that
this Jesus, whom I preach unto you, is Christ” (Act 17:2-3).
Paul revealed to them true wisdom using reason and truth. Pontius
Pilate was an obvious Platonian. He asked Jesus, “What is truth?” (John 18:38).
Paul’s reasoning to them was that their “god” is unknown, but then he proclaimed
the True God. He used the argument that “God” is the One who suffered, then
rose from the dead. That was the God who Paul “preached” unto them.
Philosophy is a form of preaching. It is presenting to man
what man loves. It does not present to man what God loves. What is it that men
love? Themselves. What is it that God loves? “Whosover.” Those who love knowledge,
love themselves. They esteem themselves to the extent that they endeavor to
self-actualize. Philosophy is the “love of the self” and is the parent doctrine
of psychology which is studying how to fix the selves which are broken.
In my years of study, it finally occurred to me: “Psychology
is another religion.” I felt stupid when I asked Dr. Fong about that. She answered
(quoted exactly), “Are you just now figuring that out?” I felt “had,” as if I
had been spiritually violated. I had been studying the philosophy of an unknown
god, thinking that it was science.
I had believed that they had “secret knowledge” which I had
to learn to fix me and everyone around me. I never learned any secret knowledge
that could fix anyone, and by the admission of my own textbook on abnormal
behavior, there is no evidence that psychology has ever fixed anything! “Secret
knowledge” about the Holy Ghost and Jesus is called “Gnosticism” and that is
the likely the same religion as the one with Paul’s “thorn in the side,” as Paul
wrote: “There was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to
buffet me” (2 Cor 12:7).
The “messenger of Satan” was most certainly Simon the Sorcerer
who preached against the apostles at that time, claiming that he was the Christ,
and that Jesus was a mere “phantasm” — an illusion or specter. Simon presented
the Savior as a mere “ghost” or slight of hand in which he specialized himself.
Many Muslims believe that Judas Iscariot was the sacrifice and that the Judas
Tree was the Tree of Life.
Some denominations seem to worship the Holy Ghost. I have
explained before that the “Holy Ghost” is the Holy Pneuma of God who experienced
death on the cross but was given up at the death of Jesus. John
conformed that notion when he wrote, “But this spake he of the Spirit, which they
that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given;
because that Jesus was not yet glorified” (John 7:39).
The “Cup” of Jesus gave up the Holy Spirit of God and that
Spirit was transformed into the “Holy Ghost” of Jesus. Christians must keep in
mind that God is three Statoos, working in harmony with homeostasis (as one).
The Resurrection of Jesus was when God breathed life back into the “Cup” of
Jesus’s Soul. He was as He was in the beginning — having a glorified body, an
eternal “Cup,” and a Living Spirit (no longer a “Ghost”) when the Father
breathed life back unto his “sleeping” Son.
God had a plan for me, and it was not to take a cheap shot
at fixing people. After years of study, my fellow students asked if I, who they
considered “broken,” would group counsel with them. My answer, “If it aint
broken, don’t fix it.”
God had fixed me years before and all that the god of
psychology could do is puncture my soul with a “thorn.” I overcame that “thorn
in my side” be reading the Word of God. I would never again diminish God by turning
to philosophers to fix me.
I no longer needed fixing. I was born again quite some time
ago, and a new attitude evolved when God breathed life unto my empty cup. I required
preserving, though. “Thorns” can still puncture my soul, but thanks to Jesus,
His death fortified it. Since Jesus overcame death, my own assurance of the
same is that Jesus is still alive and that my soul was built for immortality.
Everyone has an immortal soul; it just depends on where and
how that soul will spend eternity. God fixed me. Only I can let out the Pneuma,
like Adam, that God breathed in. God has promised never to do that, and only I
can. It is my free will whether to deflate God or not and empty my soul. Care
must be taken for a broken “bottle” can never contain a renewed Spirit; it is
as if crucifying — breaking the Cup of Jesus — all over again (Heb 6:6).
Now your “study of the soul” is complete for the day. It is
your choice to continue the Study of the Soul, which is the Word of God. The Word
drives the original “Thorn” away as Satan will flee from you (Jas 4:7). Your
soul shall remain safe if you stand under the right “Tree.”
As a sidebar, some psychology seems to be effective in that
people must understand reason and rationality. However, psychologists cannot “fix”
anything. They are poor engineers of the soul. Jesus is the Tradesman who can,
not only fix all things, but created new things. Just as He created you, He can
re-create you as well. Jesus is the “Carpenter” and the Repairman. Never
believe that anything or anyone different than that can fix you; maybe band-aid
at most until the Light is seen.
Dr. Fong said, “Our job is not just to teach you, but remold
you.” Jesus remolds. His hand molded the flesh and entrained it with the Spirit
of God. The filling is the Pneuma is more imbuement or entrained than “filled”
because so long as we are alive, sin seeps in and displaces God’s Spirit. The
Holy Ghost self-repairs if we remain joyful of Him. Remolding by any
other is blasphemy and brainwashing.
(credit for picture: Pinterest)
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