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The Living Waters Podcast

Ep. 350 - The Unbiblical Errors of Psychiatry & Psychology

The Living Waters Podcast

Living Waters

Evangelism, Apologetics, Jesus, Spirituality, Religion, Christianity, Gospel, Creation, Religion & Spirituality, Salvation, Prolife, Faith, Witnessing, Theology

4.93K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Ray, E.Z., Mark, and Oscar are joined by Dr. Greg Gifford, Assistant Professor of Biblical Counseling at The Master’s University and author of a new book that challenges the roots of modern psychology from a biblical perspective. As a counselor, Greg has noticed oddities in therapy methods that often fail to address the root of the issue for Christians. Instead of demonizing individuals or dismissing therapy completely, Greg encourages believers to explore how psychology and psychiatry differ...

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0:00.0

So what I would love to reframe for people is that what you have been told, your label,

0:04.9

all of life, what you have been told is not an illness of your mind. That category doesn't exist.

0:10.5

Like that's a false construct. But yet you can still struggle with that thing. So now what should

0:15.5

that do? That should then open us up to, well, what does the Bible say about sadness?

0:20.4

Or being a busy body in school. Or struggling with anxiety. what does the Bible say about sadness or being a busy body in school?

0:22.7

Or struggling with anxiety. What does the Bible say about those things? Let's frame this through

0:26.6

the lens of scripture. And what does the Bible say about meds? Well, meds are not inherently sinful.

0:33.3

If a person's going to make an argument that medications are sinful, I mean, it's a, it's first of all not true. Like, Paul encourages wine for the sake of the stomach, First Timothy 523. Like you can use medicine for medical purposes. Yeah. Even things that we don't know why it's helping, it's just helping like Tylenol. I don't know why I have a headache sometimes. It's just helping relieve the headache, you know?

0:57.2

So in the book, I try to make it clear that you can,

1:00.0

if you have God honoring motivations and you've obtained them legally,

1:02.3

you can use psychotropics in a way that honors the Lord.

1:04.5

It doesn't make you a weaker or lesser person.

1:07.0

But you just have to recognize what they're doing.

1:08.6

They're not treating the root cause.

1:10.9

They're treating the symptoms of the cause.

1:20.1

Unpulisonationism, Franz.

1:25.9

That's the new mental illness sweeping the nation.

1:30.5

And I'm sad or, I don't know't know maybe happy to report that I have it,

1:31.4

Franz.

1:32.9

That's right.

1:35.9

My pool is no more.

1:38.2

Well, it's in the process of being no more.

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