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On the other hand, God’s answer to this problem is to come to understand the truth of how God views each person and that our value in Him is limitless.  At the same time, when we learn to love as we are loved by God we demonstrate respect, kindness and preference for others.

As you can see, the fruit of psychology is increased deeds of the flesh.  The fruit of the Spirit is love.

But is there any reason we can’t have a marriage of psychology and Christian counseling?  Actually, Scripture says this will not work.  Look what the Word says:

Ro 8:5-14

For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.

For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.

But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.

And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.

But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.

Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.

For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do

mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

James 4:4

Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

Matt. 6:24

No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other...

Col. 2:6-10

As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him:

Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.

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.

For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.

And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power...

When we try to take pieces of the philosophy of the world and integrate them with the truth of the Word we commit spiritual adultery.  God says He has all the answers we need for every situation.  When we try to bring in the human philosophy of psychology we are saying that we can add to, or we need to add to, what God says.  But the Word indicates that the results of this will be, not just diluting the truth, but that He cannot answer our prayers and bring spiritual maturity.

James 1:5-8
If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.
For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.
A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.

The Scripture makes it clear all we need to minister healing is found in relationship with God through the Word empowered by the Holy Spirit.  To add on philosophies of psychology would be disobedience to the Word and destructive to those being counseled by it. 

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