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Gilbert Ken Quarcoopome
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Gilbert Ken Quarcoopome is a Masters student with United Graduation 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.
The Bible, many times in
one verse, will reveal to us more true psychology than all the textbooks ever
written on psychoanalysis, that is, the hidden reason for all of man's
emotional instability, fear complexes, insecurity, evil fixations, immoral,
unethical behavior, frustrations, distractions, anxieties and disintegrations.
We are just as correct, therefore, in studying biblical or Christian Psychology
as we are studying Christian Ethics, Christian Theology, and Christian Dogma.
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 maladjustments, 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.”
Part 1 - Excerpts from
paper by UGCSI Masters of Christian Psychology student, Gilbert Ken Quarcoopome
