Robin,
Yes, you put it so well. Oh, about Jung and Frued. Well, I guess you will need to read them a little to understand that they were trying to heal 'the mind' of it's many maladies, and along with those were very complex issues to broad for this tiny forum. Jung was a very complex man who wrestled with his own personality as did Frued, and I was drawing a parallel to Paul's cry, "WHO SHALL DELIVER ME FROM THIS BODY OF DEATH ?" --- My point is that if either of these two very intense gentleman had merely opened Romans 8 (or Romans period.) they would have discovered the answer to what tore up their lives in searching to heal what can only be healed by the Gospel. In my first commentary by JFB this was most clearly expressed and many others concur. It is something that drew the full attention of the Apostle Paul, who preached not without the anointing of the Holy Spirit's power and neither should we, or then we should just post up Bible verses, this faith is alive and this Word of Life is living and sharper than any two edged Sword. The Sword of the ........yes, exactly. We cannot divide the Spirit and the Word
Here is yet another puddle of inspiration. Enjoy. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/ClapHands.gif" alt="" />
(1 Corinthians 2 : 9 - 16)
9 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
10 But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
11 For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.
12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
15 But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.
16 For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.
Just a little story to lighten the way.
When I was only nineteen I was living at the YMCA and we used to eat in a dining room together. Students, University students, young men from every walk of life...On one day a young man who had just completed his degree in Psychology joined a friend and myself at the table.
During the discussion I asked him if he knew what it was that seperated people. He was perplexed and shook his head. I was pretty puzzled too, here was this guy who had burned up his credit studying a degree that was to help him heal peoples minds and he did not the most elementary of all puzzles.
I replied, "Sin" and went on to explain to him how sin also seperated us from God.
The next morning as I was preparing to go to work there was a most horrendous banging upon my door. It was this same young man, 'Colin Blake' and when I opened the door I found him standing there beaming from ear to ear.
He had gone to his room that night and opened his old Bible and started trying to find the answers to the questions he did not find a University. That night he went on his knees and asked Christ to forgive him for his sin and to be His Saviour. He had a book in his hand and it was filled with Bible verse that he read to me as he sat on my bed bubbling over with joy.
I have never forgotten that and will never, to see how the Lord gave to a Psychologist the most powerful lesson of all, and it was right there in God's Holy Book.
I have spent some time studying Dr Jay E. Adams' notes and those of Dr. Richard Ganz and it is amazing how the Lord is able to bring healing to so many lives through these men who were once students of Psychology, Psychiatry etc, and the principles were right there in God's Holy Book, no doubt the Holy Spirit did such wonderful work in these men's lives and continues to empower them to be effective in ministry.
<img src="/forum/images/graemlins/coffee2.gif" alt="" /> goodnight...
