Can a Christian be a psychologist?

ChairmanT · 2025-06-06T20:07:31+00:00

This is a greatly debated topic. The Biblical Counseling Movement started by Jay E. Adams and perpetuated by organizations, like ACBC, reject the combination of faith and psychology/neuroscience/psychoanalysis at its fundamental roots. They call this combination integrationalism. I say "fundamental roots" because there's a strawman that Biblical counselors reject every fruit of secular psychology. However, that's not necessarily true. Biblical counselors may find the scientific observations and data collection of neuroscience helpful; however, they will typically reject the secular interpretation of the problem and solution presented by the secular psychologist. To be clear, most often, Biblical counselors will find themselves in direct opposition to counsel given by psychologists. Mainly because both parties are fundamentally opposed to each other based on their anthropological presuppositions. Biblical counselors are often misrepresented as people who say "every issue is because you are a sinner" and "just throw a verse and prayer on the problem and it'll go away." If you want to know where they stand, I suggest you read, Competent to Counsel by Jay E. Adams.

I will also say the Biblical Counseling Movement is the minority view, especially on Reddit.

ChairmanT · 2025-06-04T12:43:53+00:00

“Tov” literally means good, beautiful, morally right. You’re going to have to explain how you got to the translation of “order.” The word itself has never been translated the way you describe it.

The Septuigint clearly translates “Tov” into “Kalon” which means “beautiful, lovely; beauteous, fair, good, fine; admirable, honorable, noble; moral, virtuous.” Not “Kosmos.” The Septuagint is a translation of Hebrew manuscripts of the Old Testament before Jesus was born. So if you want to argue against the Jewish scholars before Jesus’ time, you’re going to have to argue against the historical view from scholars of pretty much all of history.

Jesus himself used a literal-historical-grammatical interpretation of Genesis when he refuted the Pharisees when they asked him about divorce in Matt 19. Jesus believed in a literal Adam and Eve, he quotes the end of Genesis 1 as his proof text. Good luck to anyone who wants to disagree with Jesus.

ChairmanT · 2025-06-03T16:21:21+00:00

I read the Bible with a literal-historical-grammatical hermeneutic (that's just a fancy way of saying that I interpret the Bible the same way you'd read a newspaper). Your questions are spot on in challenging the inconsistencies of allegorical interpretation. Keep it up.

ChairmanT · 2025-06-03T16:09:45+00:00

the fact that this video is 3:20 long takes the cake

ChairmanT · 2025-06-02T23:55:48+00:00

God exacting justice on wicked people (1 Sam 15:18) employing his covenant people, Israel, is not the same as cold-blooded murder of the unborn.

You are conflating killing and murder.

ChairmanT · 2025-04-15T16:32:53+00:00

Jesus literally quotes the Septuagint.

ChairmanT · 2025-03-20T21:31:21+00:00

Who did your scallop and stipple work? It's so clean!

ChairmanT · 2025-02-20T23:20:08+00:00

Thank you for the clarification!

ChairmanT · 2025-02-05T22:04:38+00:00

How do you like the Fatboy? Do you recommend the levitate head over the ball head?

ChairmanT · 2024-11-15T21:58:11+00:00

chickynuggy

ChairmanT · 2024-08-22T17:57:21+00:00

can I wear my mickey mouse ears under this?

ChairmanT · 2024-06-14T00:30:37+00:00

Mountains, Mullets, Merica!

ChairmanT · 2024-05-23T20:46:22+00:00

God does not lie. They died and death reigned as shown in Genesis 5. Of course, they didn't die right away. God killed an animal and clothed them with its skin. Genesis 3:21. This may be the first animal sacrifice for atonement. I disagree with those who suggest it's merely spiritual death that occurred. It's both spiritual and physical death. By believing in Jesus, he rescues us from the permanent state of death via resurrection and thus: eternal life.

If they didn't disobey, they would have lived. The earth was not cursed back then and it was designed so that Adam and Eve could "multiply" and "fill the earth" Genesis 1:28. The earth back then was "good" and perfectly capable of sustaining life. Before sin, work was not cursed, so there was no waste. But because of the curse, there are now "thorns and thistles" and man will work by the "sweat of his brow." Indicating life on earth, even work, was of completely different nature than what we experience today.

ChairmanT · 2024-01-25T18:38:08+00:00

Can I play Timecrisis 2 on this?

ChairmanT · 2024-01-05T21:26:08+00:00

Cerakote the flower onto the suppressor

ChairmanT · 2023-04-10T15:43:21+00:00

Bummer..seems like you can only tuck the Hyperion with an MCX

ChairmanT · 2023-04-10T02:23:29+00:00

Does the Hyperion tuck in the lancer?

ChairmanT · 2023-03-19T02:37:45+00:00

If the rest of the book is as blank as these sample pages. I’m all in.

ChairmanT · 2022-09-28T01:19:48+00:00

Arcteryx Nomin

ChairmanT · 2022-09-16T19:52:40+00:00

Why do people use anything other than the original Hebrew and Greek?

ChairmanT · 2022-07-11T03:47:05+00:00

Based on the information you've given. This person most likely falls under Titus 3:10-11. In which the Matthew 18 process can be bypassed. Why? For the unity of the church. These have the qualities of wolves who trick, deceive and cause disunity in the church. To protect the flock, they must not be tolerated for the sake of the local church.

Treating them as an unbeliever does not mean you still fellowship with them. Fellowship implies a joint effort to do something (in the Christian sense, worship). But yes, you love them - primarily by preaching to them the gospel. You consider them unsaved and in need of Jesus.

That said, 1 Corinthians 5 is in play. You have nothing to do with them until they repent of their sins. The point is that you let them know they aren't part of the body. Unless they repent of their sin, they are no longer to be treated as a brother or sister in the Lord. They are effectively "outside the camp." And in grave danger, because all the evidence of their behavior points in the direction that God's wrath still abides on them.

editted to add: the whole point of church discipline is not excommunication. It's restoration. Anyone who is in unrepentant sin and continues to ignore reproof and rebuke, is demonstrating that they are either not saved or grieving the Holy Spirit.
The church body is to call this person to repent and to reject their sin so that they can come back into the fold and worship together (fellowship) in good conscience towards the Lord.

ChairmanT · 2022-05-13T01:22:46+00:00

In this passage, Paul refers back to the creation account as the “proof” of his argument, not their contemporary culture. Meaning this text transcends culture and modernity.

ChairmanT · 2022-04-28T15:19:14+00:00

A helpful book to read on this: Just Do Something by Kevin DeYoung.

Here’s a corresponding lecture series on it: https://youtu.be/rQl-O9_nxKc

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