Against Psychotherapy / For the Bible brings together Martin and Deidre Bobgan’s concerns regarding Christians turning to psychotherapy for their trials, tribulations, and troubles rather than following Christ and growing spiritually through duress. This book has been written to bring to light much that has been hidden in plain sight.
Both the Bible and psychotherapy depend on words that at times may sound similar but come from different directions and lead to different eternal results. The Bible describes the condition of humans and God’s remedies. The words of the Gospel bring new life to those who believe and follow the Bible. God communicates to humans through His revealed Word. Psychotherapy uses words to communicate as well. But psychological theories include multiple, often contradictory ideas of the human condition and human-devised remedies. The Bible uses words to teach truth and doctrine, but psychological counseling uses words to teach human ideas from mere mortals. All psychotherapy is simply conversation as cure, and it involves self-centered sinful conversations.
The words of psychotherapy are those of fallen, fallible, sinful humans, while the words of the Bible are the very inerrant, infallible, irrefutable Word of God.There is no book that surpasses the Bible in giving an accurate understanding of the human condition. There is no one else who can transform a life like Jesus. He has given believers His Word and His Holy Spirit and He has chosen to minister through His people in such a way that the glory goes to the Father.
This book reveals the vast difference between the Holy Word of God working righteousness in believers through the Holy Spirit in contrast to psychotherapy, which depends upon people sinning against one another with their words as they are trying to solve problems according to the flesh. The Bible and psychotherapy both depend upon words, but one leads to life eternal while the other invites and activates sinful speaking. The Bible nurtures the new life in Christ while psychotherapy and the biblical counseling psychological format empower the flesh, the old sinful nature.
This book provides information for Christians to recognize and understand the surreptitious, spiritual, surrogate, and seductive siren song of psychotherapy and its copycat, biblical counseling. This book describes how faithfulness to the God and His Word connects with believing in the sufficiency of Scripture for the issues of life. The book also reveals the reasons why biblical counseling is also faulted because of using the problem-centered questioning format of psychotherapy, which engenders self-justification, self-bias, self-centeredness, and much sinful speaking about others.
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