Has Therapy Replaced Theology in the Christian Life?
Episode notes
Has therapy replaced theology in the Christian life?
Pastor Daniel Cox and Marie Cox, a licensed counselor, start a few weeks of shorter conversations on the issues behind today's cultural conversations. This one asks where therapy fits for a Christian. Everything in the Bible is truth, but not all truth is in the Bible. So how do we use what counseling has learned without putting man's labels over God's Word?
In this episode
- If therapy has replaced your theology, your life is out of bounds
- All truth is God's truth, and God's Word is the final authority
- Why Marie won't put modern diagnoses on Bible characters
- Was Elijah clinically depressed? Was David bipolar?
- Informed enough to be dangerous
- Diagnoses are labels, not your identity
- Are we over-therapizing, or pushing people away from help?
Pastor Daniel Cox & Marie Cox · Cultural Connections
https://www.culturalconnectionspodcast.com
Calvary Baptist Church, Englewood, Florida · https://calbaptist.net
Scripture
John 20:30 · Psalm 63
Chapters
- 0:00 Intro
- 0:34 Has therapy replaced theology?
- 2:39 Not all truth is in the Bible
- 4:02 God's Word can stand alone
- 5:27 Was Elijah clinically depressed?
- 7:00 Labels are not your identity
- 9:26 Are we over-therapizing?
If this helped, send it to someone who is trying to hold their faith and their counseling together. God's Word can stand alone.