第五十五课 心理学与《圣经》（三）﹕「心想事成」(Mind Over Matter)
- 再谈「前提」﹕只有好的动机不够
Presuppositions Revisited: Good Intentions Are Not Good Enough
罗12﹕2 Romans 12:2
不要效法这个世界。只要心意更新而变化，叫你们察验何为上帝的善良，纯全可喜悦的旨意。
“Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is goo and acceptable and perfect.”
约壹4﹕1 I John 4:1
亲爱的弟兄阿，一切的灵，你们不可都信。总要试验那些灵是出于上帝不是。因为世上有许多假先知已经出来了。
“Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world.”
- 很多弟兄姐妹在从事辅导的专业或事奉。我们是重生得救的基督徒，圣灵住在我们里面，以真理光照我们，圣灵也会纠正我们对真理的错误理解。我们绝大部分的人都有好的动机﹕帮助别人，作外展事工分享基督的爱。所以我们会花时间参加「心理学与《圣经》」这类讲座。
Many of us are Christians involved in some form of counseling work or ministry. As born-again Christians, the Holy Spirit dwells in us, illumines us, and corrects our wrong understanding of the truth. The vast majority of us have very good motives to help people, and to reach out to society with the love of Christ. That is why we spend the time to attend seminars such as this one on “Psychology and the Bible.” We believe that the Holy Spirit led you to come to this seminar.
- 不过圣灵在我们里面的光照，和我们好的动机，并不改变一件事实，就是﹕大多数基督徒的思想中含有不符合《圣经》的观念，理论，和「前提」（世界观）。这些往往与《圣经》所教导的相反。辅导员若要成熟，长期有效，必须学习《圣经》的教义﹕就是纯正的，符合《圣经》的神学。我们并没有意思判断各位的动机，也不论断我们愿意帮助别人的目标。没有基督徒会一天醒过来，说，「今天我决志作一个拜邪灵的异教徒！」当然不会！可是，我们诚恳邀请你重新审核自己的世界观（价值观）。
Our good intentions, and the Holy Spirit’s illumination in our lives, however, do not change the fact that most Christians entertain notions, concepts and “presuppositions” (worldviews) which are contrary to what Scripture teaches. Counselors need to study the doctrines (teachings) which Scripture proclaims – i.e., study sound, Bible-based theology, if we are going to be mature and effective. Thus, while we do not judge your motives and your goal to help people (and you certainly didn’t wake up one day and say, “I am going to become a follower of pagan, demonic religion”), we do challenge you to re-think your worldview.
- 假如今天的讲座是「市场学与教会增长」，我们会对到会的牧师们讲解﹕虽然诸位牧师的动机是好的（愿意教会增长），可是我们从很多神学院（特别是教牧学博士课程）学到的，不过是资本主义商界的市场学与广告学伎俩而已。虽然我们不判断牧师们的动机，可是我们会向他们的前提（价值观，世界观）挑战！
If this were not a seminar on “Psychology and the Bible,” but a seminar for pastors on “Marketing and the Church Growth Movement,” we will point out to the pastors who come (who have every good intention to spread the gospel and bring people into the church) that, despite their good intentions, what they learn about church growth techniques from many seminaries (especially Doctor of Ministry programs) is nothing more than advertising and marketing techniques from the business world of capitalism. While we do not judge the pastors’ intentions, we would challenge their presuppositions!
- 事实上，多数基督徒辅导学教授（除了《圣经》辅导运动的成员例外）是从世俗心理学的理论基础教导辅导的。所谓「心理学与基督教融合」必然是失败的。我们须要圣灵光照我们，理清这些反对《圣经》的观念，清洁我们的思想。最好，最理想的情况乃是；我们在中学时期就充分吸收《圣经》教义和护教学。这样，到了大学，我们已经准备好面对世俗心理学的理论，懂得如何过滤，评判。
The fact is, most Christian professors of counseling (with the exception of a small minority who belong to the “nouthetic (biblical) counseling movement”, teach from the theoretical perspective of secular psychology. “Integration of psychology and Christianity” is a failure; it is inevitable. We need the Holy Spirit’s illumination to cleanse us from these anti-Biblical, anti-God concepts. The best, most ideal situation is that we absorb Bible doctrine, and learn the principles of Biblical apologetics, during our secondary school years. Then we are prepared to filter wrong concepts when we study psychology at the university.
- 人是什么？我们来看主要心理学理论家怎么说。弗来伊德说﹕人是一大堆彼此冲突的欲望﹕生命之欲（性）和死亡之欲（谋杀）。弗氏氏极度反对、憎恨基督教。罗杰斯说﹕人的自我，就是过去经验的总和；人没有灵魂。行为主义﹕人就是动物。新纪元运动﹕人就是上帝。
Let us take an example: What is man? How do major psychologists answer this question? Sigmund Freud – man is a combination of contradicting desires and drives (the drive for life: sex; and the drive for death: murder). Freud fiercely opposes and despises Christianity. Carl Rogers – the self is the sum total of our past experiences – Rogers does not believe that the soul exists. B.F. Skinner (behaviorism) and contemporary studies on the brain and the body – man is a body, just like an animal. New Age philosophy/psychology – man is God.
- 「心想事成」﹕积极思想的能力
“Mind Over Matter” – the Power of Thinking
赛55﹕10-11 Isaiah 55:10-11
雨雪从天而降，并不返回，却滋润地土，使地上发芽结实，使撒种的有种，使要吃的有两。我口中所出的话，也必如此，决不徒然返回，却要成就五所喜悦的，在我发它去成就的事上必然亨通。
“For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven and do not return there but water the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater, so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it.”
弗1﹕11 Ephesians 1:11
我们也在祂里面得了基业，这原是那位随己意行作万事的，照着祂旨意所预定的。
“In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will.”
- 很多心理学家和新纪元作者相信，人的思想有极大的能力﹕所谓「心想事成」。你所想的，就能发生﹕心灵可以控制物质世界，可以控制未来。
Many psychologists and most New Age writers believe in the “power of the mind.” What you think affects what will happen to you – you can “think” the future into existence.
- 「心想事成」若是指我们的思想能控制物质世界（我们的身体，环境等），那么只有上帝有这种的能力。只有《圣经》的上帝绝对有这能力，有权使用这种能力。上帝思想，计划一件事的时候，事就这样成了。他是按自己计划创造万物的主！上帝说，「要有光」，就有光。上帝的话是主宰的晓谕，是掌主权，全权的话语。唯有上帝有绝对「控制世界」的能力（赛55﹕10-11）。上帝是「凭己意行万事」的主（弗1﹕5，9，11）。
If “mind over matter” means that what we think can control the physical world (our bodies, our circumstances, etc.), then only God has that power. Only God – the God of the Bible – has that power rightfully and absolutely. When God thinks and says something, he brings things into existence. God says “Let there be light,” and there is light. God Word is the Word of the Lord; it is a sovereign, all-powerful Word. Only God has absolute power of “mind over matter” (Isaiah 55:10-11). God does all things according to the counsel of his will (Eph. 1:5, 9, 11).
- 上帝按照自己的形象创造人（创1﹕26-28）。上帝是无限的，祂所造的人是有限的。可是人的确是上帝的形象，人有某些方面「像」上帝的性格。因此，人的理性谕思想，在某一个程度上，是上帝思想的「形象」，是「模拟」上帝思维的思维 (analogical knowledge)。当然，上帝的意念不是我们的意念，祂的道路不是我们的道路（赛55﹕8-9）。祂是无限的，我们不是；祂是掌主权的，我们不是；祂是无罪的，圣洁的，我们不是。所以，我们的思想不可能一想就「创造」一件事出来（除非被邪恶灵控制）。我们必须以顺服上帝的话的心来使用我们的思想；我们的思想必须是「守约顺服」的行为。
God created man in his own image (Gen. 1:26-28). God is infinite, man is infinite, but man is God’s image. We do bear some resemblance to God’s character. Therefore, man’s mind and man’s thoughts are “analogical to” (an image of) God’s mind and God’s thoughts. Of course, God’s thoughts are not our thoughts, and his ways are not our ways (Isaiah 55:8-9) – he is infinite, we are not; he is sovereign, we are not; he is sinless, we are not. So our minds do not “create” things into being (unless we are controlled by an evil spirit). We are to use our minds in submission to his revelation, in “covenant obedience.”
- 任何人试图（或教导人）使用自己的思想来控制物质世界的，都有夺去上帝权利的嫌疑。所以上帝禁止我们行邪术！(申18章。) 新纪元哲学事实上相信我们就是上帝，因此我们应该以上帝自居，这样生活。这简直是亵渎！
Any attempt to teach man to use his mind to control matter, is suspect of usurping the power that only God rightfully exercises. That is why God forbids sorcery and witchcraft (Deut. Chapter 18). New Age philosophy, in fact, believes that we ARE God, so we should think and act as if we ARE God. This is blasphemy!
- 我们应该效法上帝的思维而思维 (think God’s thoughts after God)；换言之，以信靠，顺服《圣经》的心来思想一切的事。（参﹕傅兰姆，范泰尔的著作。）
We should learn to “think God’s thoughts after God” – in other words, in faith and in obedience to Scripture. (Cf. John M. Frame, The Doctrine of the Knowledge of God; and the writings of Cornelius Van Til.)
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