Addicted to Psychologizing
Stone Choir
Stone Choir
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🗓️ 26 March 2025
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Man is an animal, created on the sixth day with all the other land creatures. And yet man is more than an animal, for man has not only body, but also mind and soul. To ignore the soul is to fall into Materialism; to ignore the body is to fall into Gnosticism. We must endeavor to fall off of neither side of the horse. This tripartite nature of man plays out in many things and in many ways; one of those things is addiction.
When a man (or a woman) becomes addicted to something — whether it is a substance (e.g., marijuana) or an activity (e.g., gambling) —, it is a matter of all three parts of man. The atheistic world would have us ignore the spiritual aspects of addiction (e.g., that it is sin); far too many Christians would have us ignore the biological and psychological aspects. God commands us to be wise, and so we must not ignore the good tools that science has put at our disposal — biology has given us insights into the physical bases for addiction and psychology has given us insights into the psychological aspects of addiction.
We do our brothers and sisters no good when we ignore the fullness of reality, and that holds no less true when dealing with addiction.
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- MBTI Assessment [one of many sites offering it]
- Empathy Test
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We discuss both pornography and sex in this episode. The discussion is not explicit, but you may wish to review it before listening with your children.
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| 0:00.0 | The |
| 0:07.0 | The Welcome to the Stone Choir podcast. I am Corey J. Mahler. And I'm still, whoa. On today's |
| 0:45.7 | Stone Choir, we're going to be discussing psychologizing sin. We're going to focus mostly on addiction |
| 0:51.6 | today, which is a subject that was recommended by a listener. |
| 0:56.2 | Before we begin, a warning to parents, we'll definitely be covering some adult issues that would |
| 1:00.2 | be unsuitable for younger children, so you have to decide whether this is something you want your |
| 1:06.1 | kids to hear. We know a lot of parents listen with their kids, and that's awesome, but some of this |
| 1:10.7 | is definitely |
| 1:11.2 | a bit too old for certain younger people. The reason that the subject resonated with us when it was |
| 1:17.7 | recommended is that the problem of addiction, which is itself to some degree, a psychological |
| 1:24.4 | and a medical evaluation of what is effectively sin. It kind of goes right down the |
| 1:31.1 | middle of a number of different problems that we have as Christians living in the world talking |
| 1:36.4 | about everything. On one hand, there is the overwhelming pattern in modern life, and I'm guilty |
| 1:43.6 | of it too, of using way too much psychological |
| 1:46.5 | talk to speak like a psychologist when describing other people's behavior, to attribute their |
| 1:53.0 | actions or their motivations, as though you can see inside their psyche, which is another |
| 1:57.9 | psychological term or philosophical term, and you know what they're doing |
| 2:02.4 | because you know something about them, then maybe they don't even know about themselves. |
| 2:06.4 | And while that's possible to some extent for some people, in general it's a bad habit, |
| 2:11.3 | because you're not taking things at face value that if you just did, you would have a better |
| 2:15.2 | understanding than if you tried to read into it like crazy. And so there is this circumstance where the general discourse, just average people, |
| 2:23.8 | are talking like they're psychologists or psychiatrists. And it generates a lot of noise that just |
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