Counseling from Atheistic Scientism Fails

When people feel burdened, they often seek out counselors. Good friends can be helpful but problems may be cause so much discomfort, a person wants an expert. As in so many things, worldviews matter. Everyone has a worldview.

It is very unfortunate that most schools of psychology are humanistic. That is, they reject the God who made us and instead draw from atheism and evolutionism: Everything began with the Big Bang, the cosmos evolved, we are star stuff and (by accident) made ourselves evolve into humans, and when you die, you are worm food. Fabulous consel, Frederick!

Creepy AI-generated Charles Darwin as a psychiatrist, made at Simplified

Scientism is compatible with the foolishness of evolutionary psychology and secular humanism. It is the belief that all the answers in life are found through science. Of course, their definition of science rejects the Creator and, like atheism, cannot be consistently lived. Joy, peace, love, reason, science itself — all are immaterial things. The whole package is incoherent.

The biblical worldview, beginning with creation, offers answers and hope. Many people scoff at the idea of church, and in one sense, I don't blame them! Many of the mainstream denominations are dying and not much more than religious-themed social clubs.

Real churches, the body of believers, have not abandoned their foundations and rely on the Word of God. The answer is in the Word of God and repentance. Bible-believing Christians say you are special, scientism and atheism portray you as nothing.

Scientism is the worldview of atheists. It claims that everything important for humans can be provided by the scientific method. Good luck finding meaning in a test tube containing only material substances. Will a hurting person be helped by hearing, ‘Humans emerged by a fortuitous concourse of atoms in a mindless cosmos; you have no free will, stuff happens, and death ends everything’?

You can’t get blood from a turnip, nor soul from a stone. To the extent anyone is helped by a so-called secular counselor, it will come only by him plagiarizing the Christian worldview, where we have value because we were created by a righteous and loving God.

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