Nuggets from "An Urgent Call to a Serious Faith" by Dave Hunt - Are You Standing on the Word of God?

Like Adam and Eve, mankind still flees the voice of God, clothes itself with the makeshift garments of new theories no better than fragile leaves, and hides behind trees of its latest excuses for unbelief and rebellion. Psychological theories come and go in a steady stream of folly. For example, drapetomania was the official psychiatric diagnosis of a “mental illness” that was epidemic in early America. Afflicting only slaves, it was marked by a compulsion to escape – and vanished with the Civil War.

The diagnostic and treatment record hasn’t improved since. The famous Jewish psychiatrist, Thomas Szasz, called psychology “the clever and cynical destruction of the spirituality of man, and its replacement by a positivistic ‘science of mind.’” He titled the book containing that statement The Myth of Psychotherapy. Yet the church eagerly accepts each new theory, and the dependence of Christians upon unbiblical solutions continues to grow.

To encourage a passion to know and to put to use all the counsel of God is a major purpose of our ministry. One must know the whole Bible and not merely favorite or “positive” parts of it. May nothing undermine our confidence that God’s Word is a sufficient guide for “life and godliness” (2 Peter:1:3-9 [3] According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue: [4] Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. [5] And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; [6] And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; [7] And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. [8] For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. [9] But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.
See All...)! Only through heeding its “doctrine, reproof, correction, [and] instruction in righteousness” can we be “perfect [that is, mature, complete], thoroughly furnished unto all good works” (2 Timothy:3:16-17 [16] All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: [17] That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.
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