Eclecticism

Eclecticism is the thought that Christian counselors can take advantage of modern psychologies to enhance their counsel, they can pick and choose different models of truth for their counseling method development. Anytime you consider or begin to integrate non-biblical thinking and practice into biblical thinking you are bringing into question the reality of the doctrine of the sufficiency of Scripture. God has promised us that His ways are higher than our ways (Isaiah 55:8-9) and that the wisdom of God is far superior to the wisdom of man (1 Corinthians 1-4). We need to be constantly reminded of is the fact that the noetic effect of sin upon a man’s brain makes it utterly impossible for him to know what is truth apart from studying the Bible. If that is true than dabbling in the process of integrating psychology into our biblical counseling process is a dangerous thought. The secular psychologies that exist have completely different foundations and premises behind than we do so to combine them with our methodology would be like telling someone that building a house on part rock and part sand would be alright. I can still remember a friends house after the 1994 earthquake that had a red condemned sign on the door which read “ Southwest portion of the house is moving in a southwestern direction.” You could literally stand in a crack in the driveway that was about a foot wide and walk streight through the house that had been torn in two. This is the result of two different foundations (half cut and half fill). This too would be the result of combining psychology foundations with biblical foundations in our counseling.