Mental Trouble And Sin

Most of our readers are aware of the fact that there has been quite a stir in the Christian approach to mental illness - a stir brought about by a book writ­ ten by Jay Adams and entitled, "Competent To Counsel." This book, briefly, repudiates most, if not all, of modern psychiatry and psychology and explains mental problems from the viewpoint of sin. Jay Adams claims in his book that this is Scripturally sound. He insists that the Bible points to sin only as the source of all mental and...