In the Mind of Christ

By Harry Jay

The Bible - In the Mind of Christ is a concise bible
study containing bible quotes, bible verses, bible
commentary, bible scriptures, and bible stories.
There is no peace in a person's life unless he/she
has God in their heart! Look around you; the proof
of this is obvious in today's world of financial
crisis, stress and runaway consumerism. The Mind of
Christ is all about peace and contentment as the
Spirit resides in us and protects us from evil.
Every Christian should read this book; it is the
non-secular form of the meaning of LIFE!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dr. Leland Benton
• Release date: Apr 19, 2015
• ISBN: 9781310637490

Harry Jay

Dr. Harry Jay is Director of Research for AppliedMindSciences.com, a mental health and mind research group of Applied Web Info, and is the author of over 100 books and research papers as a behavioral scientist. In his 31-year career, Dr. Harry Jay has contributed many new mental health treatment treatments and protocols using some of the new advances he has discovered in Energy Psychology. He specializes in addictions of all kinds, sexual abuse, child predation and gender relationships. He is also a board member to ePubWealth.com and serves on the science committee assisting non-fiction science writers in book publishing and promotion. As a leading behavioral scientist, he provides profiling services to the company's ForensicsNation.com unit as well as criminal psychology research to aid in identifying and apprehending child predators and cyber-criminals of all kinds. He resides in Southern Utah and enjoys the outdoors, fishing and photography.

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In the Mind of Christ

By Dr. Harry Jay

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The Truth Will Set You Free!

Table of Contents

Introduction

Postmodernism...an example of secular thought

Prologue: How Christianity sees the complete picture...

Chapter 1: Secular Thought versus Christian Thought

Chapter 2:  The Old versus the New

Chapter 3:  The Sacrifice Called Love

Chapter 4:  Do Christians Still Sin?

Chapter 5:  What If There Is No God?

Chapter 6:  We Are Tested By Fire

Chapter 7:  Arise and Shine

Chapter 8:  My Personal Testimony

Chapter 9:  The Will of Man

Chapter 10:  Let's talk...

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Meet the Author

Introduction

What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.  - Ralph Waldo Emerson

If youth only knew; if age only could!  I often think about this adage.  Is youth truly wasted on the young?  Wisdom, which comes with age, is housed in bodies often betraying a person who attempts to pursue a meaningful life.  Youthful bodies, which are full of vitality lack the wisdom needed to employ rightful choices.  There seems to be a severe paradox here.

I would like to welcome you to an experience you will never forget.  I remember all too well growing up and being lectured about making good choices.  I would listen to the preaching but I noticed, even at a young age, that parents never seemed to practice what they preached.  This is a very human characteristic.  In human behavior, we call it cognitive dissonance.  In plain English this means that people hate it when their beliefs are inconsistent with their actions, or using the vernacular You talk the talk but do not walk the walk.  Secular psychology says that healthy individuals won't rest until they resolve that conflict by changing their thoughts, beliefs or actions.  At least we hope so, but unfortunately this is almost never the case.

Sometimes the people I counsel and teach forget that I am a person too.  They overlook the fact that as a man, I fall into the same systems of thought that other men do.  I mention this because one of the things I will teach is the differences in the male/female psyches.  Men and women employ different ways they view and react to the world around them.  I call it "male/female realities. 

I grew up in a matriarch environment, which means in psychological terms, I was a female-trained male.  My belief systems and identity came from this female-oriented upbringing.  As I passed from puberty into adulthood, I took with me this belief system and soon learned that how I had been trained simply didn't cut it in the real world.  For example, growing up in a house full of women, I soon learned that it was easier to please them rather than fight with them.  It was a defense mechanism I developed to stay alive- literally.  This act of compromise would seemingly be a very good skill to develop and practice in adulthood and it is up to a certain point, however, in my naivety, I took it too far and my relationships with the opposite sex soon took on the nature of smothering my girlfriends.  Men usually are accused of being inattentive to a woman's needs.  I was accused of being too attentive.  Only when I discovered my true identity was this trait corrected.

We must become the change we want to see

We will talk a good deal about identity in this book.  Without a doubt, it is the most important aspect in a person's development into a Complete Person.  We will discuss this concept later on in the book.  As you work through this book, you will begin to discover things about yourself, which you've never identified as character traits and/or causes of some of your problems.  This is the main purpose of this book.  In school you learned the things that are empirical in nature; I teach LIFE and how to acquire the necessary social skills to survive and live a good and meaningful life.

If you have read my bio at the beginning of this book, you will have discovered I am not only a human behavior specialist, but also a Christian minister and counselor.  Religion of any kind is a personal choice.  When I practice Christian counseling, the protocol (treatment) techniques are completely opposite of what secular psychologists employ.  Secular psychology believes that only man is responsible for his life; Christianity believes it is God.  The foundation to any form of belief system is truth.  In secular thought, truth is subjective or whatever you hold up as being truth; in Christian thought truth is God.  Let me give you an example using an article I wrote on Postmodernism...

Postmodernism...an example of secular thought

Postmodernism rejects as intolerant and arrogant anyone claiming to know any objective or universal truth.  To a postmodernist, truth claims are created by belief systems, not discovered by reason, observation or revelation.  Hence, truth is political. 

A postmodernist sees the challenging of another’s truth claims as arrogant.  Also, personal choice alone legitimizes spiritual commitments, i.e. the movie At Play in the Fields of the Lord, an Amazonian Indian and a Christian missionary converse, If the Lord made Indians the way they are, who are you people to make them different?  This attempt to convert people is unacceptable because it implies standing in judgment over their truth. 

Does objective truth exist?  Objective truth means truth that is independent of individual or cultural belief.  Objectivity assumes we live in one reality.  From this common reality we have a common base to discuss what is true and what isn’t.  Postmodernists deny this shared reality.  They claim that different cultural groups live in different realities and hence have different truths.  They claim we are creating truth as we interpret and perceive.  We are not discovering truth.  In other words, a thing is true because I believe it; I do not believe it because it is true. 

Postmodernists believe all truth is subjective (meaning it is whatever you think it is and not empirical).  Subjective truth (Eph. 3:19) is knowing a love that transcends knowledge and that relationship with God goes beyond mere statements of fact.  The Bible emphasis on historical revelation (1 Cor. 15: 13-15), doctrinal propositions (Rom. 10:9), and natural revelation (Rom. 1:18-20) presume that objective truth exists hence Christians are in direct opposition to postmodern thinking.

Higher education openly promotes cynicism about truth and reason.  People claiming to be in possession of truth (especially religious truth), end up repressing those that don’t agree.

Postmodernism abandons modernism or European Enlightenment-Frenchman Rene Descartes idea of autonomous man- I think therefore I am (The one that starts from his own thought).  Enlightened man systematically builds his worldview from reason alone.  Modernists assume that the mind as a mirror of nature meaning that our perceptions of reality actually correspond to the way the world is.  By this, they pursue their vision of progress, exalting technology and mastery over nature.  Modernist thinking created expansion-minded capitalism, liberal democracy and communism.  All of which have sought to subjugate the earth.

Modernism collides with postmodern thought as evidenced by the statement, Progress toward what?  Because of this conflict, people today are interested in primal cultures and worldviews that promote the unity of humanity with nature rather than humankind standing over nature.  Postmodernism-by exposing autonomous human reason as a dead end- is the logical extension of modernist thought.  Postmodernism objectively moves to destroy absolute truth.  Its openness to spirituality is anti-Christian because it considers the Christian message (like all worldviews) true only for those who accept it as such.  Rather than see humans as individual rational selves, as modernists held, postmodernists think of humans as extensions of culture.

Postmodernists deny the individual self.