I am convinced that secular psychology has almost nothing to offer the believer other than their ability to observe the obvious.
When a believer witnesses a person doing evil we know that the evil they do is coming from their heart, they are doing their dastardly deeds for no other reason except to follow their sinful heart. Often that heart is full of pride, believing they have the right to do anything they want and when thwarted by others, they will lash out in their flesh, permeated by the sin within.
Secular psychology can observe the bad behavior of someone and call it bad, but they assign wrong motive to it. Since their premise is that all mankind is basically good, then the motives of the evil person must be that they are angry about what others did to them.
To assign innocence to an evil doer because others may have done them evil is ludicrous at best. What about the evil that he does to others, do they get to blame him for his actions against them?
Secular mankind looks for excuses based on evolution, that man can do no wrong, he is only another animal, that is merely being stimulated to follow his instinct based on his experiences.
God says exactly the opposite, man is not basically good, rather, man is basically evil. We see this in our daily lives. Mankind does not retaliate against a perceived wrong, that may not even have been a wrong, he is just plain selfish and wants his way no matter who he has to roll over to get it.
Jeremiah 17:9 "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?"
Proverbs 29:1 "1 A man who hardens his neck after much reproof Will suddenly be broken beyond remedy. 2 When the righteous increase, the people rejoice, But when a wicked man rules, people groan.…"
Secular psychology can tell us what is happening, but they do not have the right answers as to why it is happening nor do they have the solution to the sin-sick souls of men. They can, at times give methods that seem to work for awhile, but they cannot fix the soul of a man.
Christ is the only One Who can fix the soul of a man, creating in him a new creature, completely changed. Removing all evil desires with residue that is dealt with as we are being cleansed. Even though believers do sin, they hate that they sin and their heart wants to make things right again through confession and forsaking.
1 Corinthians 5:17 " 17Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come. 18Now all these things are from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation,"
Secular psychology wrongly instructs people that they will never be cured of certain sin, calling them diseases. All sin can be resolved through confession to Christ depending on Him to remove it from us, this takes faith.
When I speak of narcissism frequently, it is to help those who have been victims of it. Those who have been beaten down so severely that they no longer have a personality or the confidence to carry on in a normal fashion. I also speak of it, using a secular term to describe the passage in 2 Timothy 3:1-5. The seculars know the ailment, but they don't know the description of it comes from the Bible. They also cannot accurately assess the solution, which is Christ alone. In short they know the problem but they do not know the true cause nor do they have a solution that is permanent.
So the gist of the matter is that we should not look to secular psychology for our solutions, the Bible is our guide. Egypt has long been synonymous with sin and secularism, God tells us in His Word not to go to psychology for our help.
Isaiah 31:1 "Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help And rely on horses, And trust in chariots because they are many And in horsemen because they are very strong, But they do not look to the Holy One of Israel, nor seek the LORD!"
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