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A few years ago I finished a two year degree in Architectural Drafting . My last class was “Introduction to Psychology”, an elective that I had to take. One big thing I did learn is that “they” have put a label or term and description on just about anything you can think of! For example; Social Psychology—the study of how a person’s behavior, thoughts, and feelings are influenced by the real, imagined or implied presence of others. After taking this class I find it sad, that in pursuit of understanding the human being, scientists' have left God out of the picture. Science - systematic knowledge of the physical or material world gained through observation and experimentation. God has given us so much through this means of learning (science), but humans, left to our own understanding, go the way of a crooked path. Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight. Proverbs 3:5 Psychology—the scientific study of behaviors and mental processes. Psychology has four goals; 1) To describe the different ways that humans behave. 2) explain the causes of behavior. 3) Predict how humans will behave in certain situations. 4) To control humans behavior for change. The biological aspect of psychology has helped many people with physical disorders such as ADHD, Alzheimer’s, Visual Agnosia (a failure to recognize some object, person, or color, yet has the ability to see and even describe pieces or parts of some visual stimulus), sleep problems, depression, schizophrenia and to many more to list. However, I’d like to revisit the “Social Psychology” that was taught towards the end of the class. The biggest of man’s problems here on earth I believe is the failure to acknowledge God our creator. We tend to try and come up with an explanation for every problem, process, and event that comes along. For example, my psychology book mentioned a girls touch football game a few years ago in a Chicago suburb that had been going on for years, turned ugly during a yearly “minor hazing” ritual. Typically senior girls dumped various kinds of food (ketchup, whipped cream, syrup) on the junior girls. At this game it turned into beating, kicking and splattering faces and eyes with Tabasco sauce and vinegar and dumping buckets the contents of which I will not repeat here. It was video-taped and watched by over 100 other students who did nothing to stop the brawl. Five girls ended up in the hospital, some of them needed stitches to close the wounds that were administered by the seniors. Now of course the second goal of psychology is to “explain the causes of behavior”. So, the book asked the question “What kind of group pressure causes normal people to submit to being hazed, and what kind of group pressure turns normal people into violent and ugly hazer's? So psychology can “control the behavior for change” (step four) the book will look at what kind of upbringing these girls had, what kind pressures are they under etc., etc. Sin—Falling short of God’s perfection, the transgression of the law. Everyone who sins breaks the law; in fact, sin is lawlessness. I John 3:4 God has written His own answer for change to all of the social psychological problems “Introduction to Psychology” has to offer. Its found in Romans chapter seven and eight “Struggling With Sin” and “Life Through the Spirit”, and is the answer to all the psycho-babble found in the world today. I only wish I had room to reprint the both chapters, as they truly address the Carnal Mind vs. the Spiritual Mind, and the answer to real change as God has intended. Please take 1/2 hour out of your day and read these two chapters. For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart. Hebrews 5:12
