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What Does the Bible Say about Insanity?

Session 5

September 14, 2019 • Dr. Daniel Berger

What is severe alleged mental illness, and can it be remedied? Are we all insane, or are just a few of us? These questions and more will be addressed from both the secular perspective and Scripture. It may surprise some, however, to learn that today’s prominent psychiatrists (who control and sustain the construct of mental illness) insist that normalcy and mental illness cannot be objectively determined or defined. Yet they assert that their constructs of human abnormalities contained in the DSM-5should be believed and applied dogmatically. But if normal is subjective and imprecise, then how can deviances from a non-existent standard logically exist objectively? What if an objective definition does exist, however, and discovering its essential elements simplifies the concept of madness/psychosis and exposes exactly why secularists cannot or refuse to objectively define normalcy and mental illness? In order to answer these questions, the original definition of madness found in Scripture will be compared and contrasted with the current accepted psychiatric theory.