CHRISTIAN PSYCHOLOGY DR. E. C. BRAGG - Trinity College

3. Sin, and the best good or morality and happiness. There are but a very few
psychologists that make sin non-existent as Barbour says, in Sin and the New
Theology - practically every school of psychology present self-realization as the end
motive of all life, and evil or sin is the failure to reach that end. "Like most of
Sociologist - Sin is the failure to have a good time." Wilhelm Stekel in Peculiarities
of Behavior, p. 8-9, "The imperative of the social group (The herd) is called
morality, or ethical law. No action is in itself immoral; it becomes so only in
relation to time, custom, country, and environment." "You see no sin only
expediency and social prohibitions." This psychology spawned two world wars.
“The euphoria of life is self-gratification," p.11 and "The imperative of plea sure
alone stands supreme."
4. Conscience. As the psychologists deny any existence of conscience at all, they
are hard put to define that which condemns us from within. The animalistic
psychologist would explain it by calling it a leftover vestige of our animal ancestry,
synonymous with the skulk of the dog. Others would make it but some form of
repression. Out of the many college textbooks I have, not one mentions it at all.
Barbour says, "Perhaps there has been no other theological concept which has been
quite so universally denied by the New Psychologists as the Christian idea of
conscience." "There has been a unity of effort to explain this mental activity in
terms of psychology that would rid it of its awesomeness and take away its fear of
power." See the serpent trail here; he would silence God's alarm-bell in the soul.
5. Repentance and Temptation. In the Students Dictionary of Psychological Terms
neither repentance nor temptations are even recorded. Freud considered temptation
as "an obsession" and religion as "world neurosis" (Nervous disorder), so a sense of
sin is only an "inferiority complex." Conscience is the "fear of the herd." Religion is
"Superstition."
6. Salvation. The New Psychologists refer to any idea of Christian Salvation as
"An escape mechanism." Their idea of salvation is self-realization and exaltation; to
reach complete happiness through complete freedom from all complexes,
inhibitions, repressions, substitutions, etc.
7. The Soul, (So the mind) of any idea of Dualism, that there is in man an
immaterial part.) With the rare exception of the few Christian Psychologists, every
one of the Secular Psychologists denies that there is a distinct separate entity in
man, separate from the bodily functions, arid called a Soul. The brain is confused
with the mind, making the brain all there is to our mental makeup. "The brain
secretes thought as the steam engine does steam? The soulish activities such as
love, hate, reasoning, and willing are all products of glandular secretions, especially
of their endocrine glands and muscular reactions; not as the Bible teaches that all of
these activities are not of the body which only obeys the soulish dictates, and, can
and does, consciously exist after the body is destroyed in death. The Bible teaches
that every soulish function is carried out by the soul after death separates from the
body (Both mental and spiritual). The New Psychology teaches that all these are
only chemical and muscular reactionism, so there is no duty of man to external code
but death ends it all like an animal. Thus they have followed the atheistic
philosophers before them: Huxley -"We know nothing more of the mind than that it
is a series of perceptions;" Hume - "When I enter into what I call myself I find