The Limits of Secular Approaches

Healing the wounded spirit is not just a cognitive, mental or brain chemistry issue. It is beyond that. It is a spiritual matter. It this spiritual nature of our inner makeup that the secular world finds itself limited to dealing with. However these are spiritual matters beyond the mind.

A wounded spirit is a result various matters depending on the doorway the matters entered into a person's life. The four doorways of access were covered earlier: 1) deception, 2) ignorance, 3) sin, and 4) storms of life.

From the original causes of a wounded spirit there can also be offshoots or other matters that may have added to the problem. For example, someone dealing with matters from the distant past may also be dealing with recent afflictions he/she may be going through. The person's personality makeup may also be facilitating the problem, particularly when a person does not know his/her areas of weakness and vulnerability.

Thus to precisely identify the root causes from thousands or even millions of experiences in life is not humanly possible. Only the Holy Spirit whose knowledge is infinite knows how to take care of such a puzzle.

That is why secular psychology and related fields of study are limited. Much has been unearthed through these noble fields. But they cannot replace a responsibility that is primarily spiritual in nature.

How else can we explain former prisoners, drug addicts, prostitutes, homosexuals, victims of abuse, emotional wretches, and so on, being more likely to change and receive deliverance through God's word than through all the secular counseling they could get?

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