Pillar 2: Scripture-based

In my practice, the Bible has more authority on truth than psychology and other human-based perspectives. Although I highly value my training in psychology and the scientific method, and employ it daily in my practice, I view people's psychological problems through the lens of God's Word. I also believe that a good and sound psychology must be based upon the Biblical view of God, human beings and sin. The Bible describes us as fallen creatures in need of redemption through Jesus Christ alone. Therefore, I place more dependency on the Bible than I do in the sciences in which I have been trained. Science is valuable, but provides only partial truth about reality, especially about the the human mind, while the Bible provides full and absolute truth about ultimate reality.

Author Stephen Covey once spoke to large audiences on college campuses around the nation, where students are still taught, to this day, that truth is relative, and not absolute. The idea of "relative truth" basically goes like this: truth is a matter of public opinion or something we can pick and choose as "our truth," as from a cafeteria menu. In order to demonstrate the absurdity of this belief, Dr. Covey asked the college students to simply close there eyes for a moment and point north. Then he asked the students to hold their hands and fingers in that position as they opened their eyes. When they opened their eyes, they saw a sea of hands pointing in all possible directions. Who was right? Only those few who pointed to true north, in the same direction as the compass point did. Ultimately, there is absolute truth, in the same way that there is true north. God provides that truth through the Bible, our compass.

As John Piper writes: "The most relativistic professor in the university, who scoffs at the concept of truth in the classroom, will be indignant if his electricity bill is false to his disadvantage. He will call the utility company and complain that there is some mistake. He will not think it is funny if the voice on the other end says, "It's a mistake in your view, but not in our view." (What Jesus Demands of the World, p. 290).