Isn’t it odd that some Christians in the mental health field act like the Gospel and the Bible aren’t needed in the counseling office?
The Gospel is good news for every person who chooses to trust Christ and accept the gift He offers: new life in Him. Life change happens when the broken begin living for God rather than self. The Gospel becomes personal, leading to peace and contentment in every circumstance.
This article addresses whether biblical counseling is a viable (or even better) alternative than secular counseling.
Part 1 of this article addresses the first two claims against biblical counseling from this article in Pacific Standard magazine. Here in Part 2, we’ll address two more claims.
3. Simplistic Approach
Claim: Psychologists understand the depth of struggles as well as the solutions; Biblical Counselors (and The Bible) have a simplistic or insufficient approach.
Here is a quote from the article that especially makes this claim: “The premise of biblical counseling is seductive in its simplicity: God has given you a guide to humanity’s most difficult problems, and the solutions are all in one place. But if you grant that non-biblical knowledge has any role to play—whether it is in ‘challenging
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