Gregory Koukl: “Is the Bible Sufficient?”

http://www.psychoheresy-aware.org/gregory_koukl.html

Excerpt: …Think about it. From the Day of Pentecost onward the church exercised a care of souls ministry based on Scripture. The psychological counseling movement began about fifty years ago with the first state licensing occurring about then. Now Koukl and others are being critical of the nearly 2000-year-old sufficiency-of-scripture position and leave the door open to the wisdom-of-man counseling psychology. The issue is not about using man’s reasoning; it is about using man’s wisdom, the very wisdom of man about which God warns his people (1 Cor. 2:5), where God has already spoken. That is the real issue that Koukl failed to address and has distorted and confused by his generic use of the word psychology.

While Koukl claims to be a "centrist on the role of psychology in the life of the Christian,"⁹ his current article and past paper on which it is based contradict this claim. It is transparent that his writing on the biblical sufficiency position will be endorsed by Christians who support psychotherapy and rejected by those who trust the adequacy of Scripture. No such articles and no such writers as Koukl are centrist when that result occurs. The simple truth is that, based on Koukl’s writings, the door is left open to psychotherapy and slammed in the faces of those who support the sufficiency of Scripture…