The dynamic of guilt is paramount
in both psychology and Judeo-Christianity. First, examine guilt: “Guilt most commonly refers to an emotion that occurs when
a person feels that they have violated a moral standard”
Moral standards are required for
civilization, or everyone would do what is right in their own eyes and many
would be psychopathic. Not by coincidence, in ancient times, about the
so-called elect of God, “In those days there was no king in Israel, but every
man did that which was right in his own eyes” (Jud 17:6). Israel was no longer
a religion but a conglomeration of psychopathic people that were out of
control.
Psychopathy, or psychopathic
personality, is a personality construct characterized by impaired empathy and
remorse, and bold, disinhibited and egocentric traits, masked by superficial
charm and the outward appearance of apparent normalcy. (ibid)
In other words, whatever a psychopath
chooses to do is the normative; they can hurt others with impunity, believing
they will not be punished themselves. They are too smart for the law of man and
since God does not exist, in their world, psychopaths are their own kings just
as scripture reveals them to be.
Mobs are groups of psychopaths doing
whatever they think is right. You often see the outcome of that with the “woke”
crowd in big cities.
Their moral standard is their own with
regard to society’s standards, let alone any divine standard. They are like the
mob that crucified Jesus who were out for blood… divine blood. Anyone would not
do; they required the blood of “The Man” with Authority — the Man who lived the
Law of Love. It was not Jesus they sought, but they endeavored to “defund the
police,” so to speak, by putting an end to oppressive laws.
Mobs are excused nowadays; they are seen
as merely the oppressed expressing their anger at anyone, even statues, that
differs in opinion. The woke people excuse their behaviors and they are “awake”
because of good-meaning psychologists.
Note that psychologists are not mean
people. Those in schools of psychology are taught empathy, just like the Christian
catechism: “As you would that men should do to you, do you also to them
likewise” (Luke 6:31). Christ said to have empathy. It is okay to protest against
injustice, but it is not okay to violently, or destructively protest. The woke
crowd, conditioned by the DSM, are showing empathy, but the law of the land and
the Law of God does not condone violence to show empathy!
In thought, modern-day mobs think
they are empathetic. They hold all types of empathetic signs so that those who
are sound asleep know just how empathetic they are. Although they think good
thoughts their actions speak otherwise; they tear down what good people
have made to show their empathy.
With that said, people are like Adam
and Eve who were cunningly manipulated to do immoral acts. Just as the cunning
Devil used pleasantries to instigate lawlessness, “children of the Devil” (John
8:44) use the same tactics to get the masses to do the unthinkable.
The DSM is a manual with good
intentions. It provides standards to identify who needs help to overcome life
in this world. (It is the capable giving to those with needs in a Marxist way.)
The DSM is meant to be for good just like the Communist Manifesto was intended
to be good, but in practice they can harm.
It is not bad to help people, but it is
bad to “help” them with bad advice. The problem with the DSM is not the paper,
but those behind the standards written on the paper. The writers of the DSM
have written their own standards of normalcy whereas the Bible is written by
those inspired by God, to wit: “All scripture is given by inspiration of God,
and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in
righteousness” (2 Tim 3:16).
Just what is so bad about sharing
doctrine to correct bad thoughts and behaviors to live right and joyful lives?
Because the Bible already provides safety, asking its adherents to refrain from
dangerous behaviors. Indeed, The wages of sin is death” (Rom 6:23). Doing
sinful things leads to death. For instance, insobriety and non-vigilance is
dangerous in any doctrine. However stupid those two things are, people will
still do them because of enjoyment, just as children do not fear danger because
they want to explore.
To keep mankind sober and vigilant for
their own safety, God wrote standards of safe behavior. The Bible is His “DSM”
in a manner. It identifies abnormal behavior that might be dangerous to you.
The problem with the DSM is that their standards are not God’s Standards
because their thoughts are not His Thoughts (Isa 55:8). The DSM is not written
by righteous men who desire that you live forever, but that you merely cope
in this world.
It is not mean to want people to cope!
They encourage you to do what they feel is best for you.
Stress is the most prevalent killer of
mankind, so it is logical for empathetic people to want you not to have stress.
Is stress from God or is it from Satan?
that is the question. Stress is what the world imbues upon its people. Stress,
according to scripture, is the outcome of sin, ignoring the standards of God. From
where does that come? Genesis 3:16-19 wherein the woman got pain, and the man
got toil. Who is to blame for that? Satan, cleverly disguised in some image,
did not force Adam and the woman to do anything, and God forbade them to
get into trouble with the Law.
In other words, mankind was a free
agent to do as he pleased, and both the man and woman chose stress.
God had a plan to alleviate stress: do
what is right and avoid stress. So, God wrote down standards; His “DSM” is
written on stone to endure forever, and it does include empathy (Commands
five through ten) for others and empathy for God (Commands one through four).
So, both psychology and Judeo-Christianity
shares the concept of empathy. The contrast is the punishment for failure to be
empathetic.
In Genesis chapter three God provided
the consequence for coming short of empathy — stresses of all sorts, or “tribulations.”
The DSM lists no penalties for sinful (abnormal)
behavior at all but encourages pride. Rather than ashamed of nakedness like
Adam and the woman (Gen 3:10), it is okay to come out of the closet with about
any type of trans-behaviors.
Adam and the woman were naked before
and were not ashamed. Their nakedness was not their flesh but their innermost
being — their two souls with God within them. After sin, they were ashamed of
what they had become. Eve was trans-mutated by an alien in the Garden. She was
ashamed that her divine chromosomes had become stained by alien actions…
behaviors that were alien to God.
God did provide a “pressure valve” to
relief the stress of mankind. God is the Author of “guilt.” Satan had not
sinned; he (it) had persuaded mankind to sin and when the woman did, she became
another kind that Adam named “Eve” (Gen 3:20).
Since “guilt” refers to an emotion that
occurs when a person feels that they have violated a moral standard, then eliminating
moral standards suffices in the viewpoint of psychiatry. The DSM removes
religions viewpoint of morality from their standards; it matters not what God says,
but what the APA says. Oftentimes they say the same thing, but increasingly so,
they are saying very different things.
Paul wrote to Christians to “Prove all
things; hold fast that which is good” (1 Thes 5:1). (I am not implying that all
the DSM, nor all the APA, is bad, but to warn people to test all the things in
their lexicon and hang onto what is good.
The problem is that the modern Church,
and even well-meaning Christians, allow the DSM and psychology to have precedence
above God. In a sense, the DSM is a new invisible god in violation of the First
Commandment.
Now examine a psychiatric appointment:
you talk; they listen, then they direct your thoughts. Their intention is for
you to have a ground-breaking repressed thought emerge from your mind.
That is the method of Christianity as
well. You speak, God corrects with scripture, and you are guided to a better Way.
Finally, the Word speaks to you in the same manner as the psychiatrist.
In whom do you trust… mammon or God? The
problem with Christians is that they now trust the therapist more so than God.
Sin is not necessarily abandoning God but putting another God before Him (Exod
20:3).
The Jewish problem in ancient days was
that they trusted themselves more than God. They preferred to wonder in the
wilderness under the pretense of following God all the while their route was
chaotic as Moses allowed them to wander wherever they might go. In a symbolic
manner, the Israelites were following the “Wanderer” Cain in the land of Nod. In
a sense, those directing themselves on the psychiatric couch are going where
they want to go, and about anyplace they would rather go than to follow God.
It is important to understand the concept
of guilt. It took the Israelites forty years to find their way to sanctity and
peace, when if they had followed God, they would have arrived there quickly.
God threw all sorts of tribulations to
the Israelites during the exodus from Egypt to serenity. He truly stressed them
out. He put up all sorts of stressors to shorten the way to serenity: war,
famine, more war, thirst, and on and on. They were pretty much apathetic, even
pathetic; they failed to see that God was providing for them the same perils as
Adam and Eve. He was testing them to determine to whom their hearts belonged.
On each occasion, the Israelites felt
the emotion of guilt. To resolve their guilt, God blessed them for them to
understand that they failed with God’s standards. He loved them anyway. God did
not empathize with their unrighteous behaviors and thoughts, but that they were
worth correcting. It took forty years to correct their dysfunctionality, and
God took them to serenity, not in Canaan, but serenity in heavenly Paradise.
If only people would live the standards
of God, tribulation would not be required. Stress and the response to it — guilt
— is more of a guidance to the Way to sober thinking rather than an impedance.
Why would Satan want you to feel guilt for bad behavior? He would not; he would
want you to feel free.
That is the same outcome expected of
your empathetic therapist. He tries to direct you to shortcut to serenity by
traveling his way. The objective of a psychiatrist is not for you to reject
stressor-inducing behaviors but to continue on your merry way as you are. Of
course, that is not in all cases, but with people that they think are
born that way.
We are all “Born This Way” as the song goes.
The song itself is a song of pride.
James wrote to “Humble yourselves in
the sight of the Lord, and He shall lift you up” (Jas 4:10). Pride is of the
Satan, Lucifer, his “pomp” (Isa 14:12). Flamboyant people are pompous; you must
accept them as they are. Their type of love is no different than God’s agape,
caring love. You were “shapen in iniquity” (Psalm 51:5), you were born this way,
coming short of the glory of God in all way!
Sure, we love them, but not their ways
because their ways will destroy them. Sincere love is wanting better for them.
To cherish them as they are, is condoning their behaviors. To be honest, we
want them to change. We are much like them in a manner of speaking — they want us
to be like them without a standard, and we want them to be like us... that is to
God’s standards.
The argument condenses to whom does
your heart belong? Does it belong to Freud, Jung, Maslow, or even Marx; or does
your heart belong to God?
Indeed, psychology does some good
things, but like the tree of the same name, they can do great evil as well.
They are indeed a religion that is cleverly disguised as a science. However,
even their name gives them away — psychology — the “study of the soul.” That is
the very purpose of reading the Bible, but most people spend a hundred-fold
more time studying books of psychology rather than the one good book that
covers all normal and abnormal behaviors using the metrics written by God Himself.
When I asked Dr. Fong, "Isn't psychology just another religion?" she responded, "Are you just now figuring that out?" Are you just figuring that out now?
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