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To: ksen

Psychology is the study of the mind (psyche).

It involves the functioning and biology of the brain and goes from there to an attempt to understand how individual behavior is affected by that mind. It's really no different than understanding how the function (or malfunction) of the heart has certain physiological responses.)

How the function of the brain has certain behavioral responses.

So far, we've done nothing unChristian, have we?


5 posted on 05/04/2005 9:47:43 AM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It!)
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To: xzins; Lazamataz

Did you read the article, or are you following Laz's example of proudly posting without reading the article since 19XX?


7 posted on 05/04/2005 9:59:26 AM PDT by ksen ("He that knows nothing will believe anything." - Thomas Fuller)
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To: xzins

Well, sadly, you have missed the point. When the author uses the term "Psychology", he is implying the popular use of the term and how it is practiced in the western world today. Obviously he is not proposing that the "study of the mind" is evil.

It is akin to saying nuclear weapons are evil. Obviously nuclear weapons are merely an object and are inherently neutral. Psychology as a concept is not evil - it is the popular practice of psychology which does not align with scripture.

Defining psychology as you have below is like calling pornography "love-making":

xzins: "It involves the functioning and biology of the brain and goes from there to an attempt to understand how individual behavior is affected by that mind. It's really no different than understanding how the function (or malfunction) of the heart has certain physiological responses.)"


22 posted on 05/04/2005 12:53:13 PM PDT by visually_augmented (I was blind, but now I see)
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To: xzins
No I must disagree. Psychology, is the study of the soul, mind. Psychiatry is the study of the combined actions of behavior and well-being, as well as the structure of the brain. i.e. Psychology practically is the study of human behavior. Psychiatry is the study of the effects of pharmaceuticals on human behavior. So the study of Christian psychology is the combination of human understanding of human behavior and the Christian label. Because just as certain groups have abdicated the authority of scripture on the study of the physical world, the 'Christian' psychology proponents are also abdicating the authority of scripture on human behavior.
39 posted on 05/04/2005 3:03:21 PM PDT by Rhadaghast ( Free Lancer for Christ, Paradigm Shifting Specialist.)
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To: xzins; ksen; All

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54 posted on 05/04/2005 8:05:30 PM PDT by missyme (Don't let the door hit ya in the ?)
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To: xzins
So far, we've done nothing unChristian, have we?

No, not yet.

94 posted on 05/05/2005 6:58:24 AM PDT by Oberon (What does it take to make government shrink?)
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