Allie Beth Stuckey

And in the age of Christianity and the domain of Trinitarian thinking, such an idea is simply out of the question because the conflict is too violent for evil to be assigned any other logical relation to the Trinity than that of the absolute opposite.

And we can skip the rest of that quote because it just goes kind of on and on.

So

He had a completely unbiblical idea of God, of the Trinity, of good and evil, sin, darkness, light, goodness.

And he basically used the biblical process of salvation by faith and sanctification with a process of individuation.

So he used that as a metaphor for the process of individuation or becoming whole, again, going to that inner divine self, that inner divine child.

And he saw this as the process of integrating your shadow and accepting all parts of yourself, including your divine child.

Okay.

So that is what Carl Jung believed about the self, about God.

He certainly didn't believe in the Imago Dei like Christians believe in the Imago Dei.

And yet what he believed about the self and who we are in our purpose in life is

is so intertwined with what students learn when they're becoming psychiatrists and psychologists today, and so much of what we read online about the process of healing.

And that's problematic, that you have someone who pushed New Age ideas, who believed in astrology, who basically pushed the cult of self-affirmation and the God of self that we talked about in my first book, You're Not Enough.

who is really the father of those concepts, we cannot allow him and his ideas to influence what we think about ourselves and our purpose, right?

It's not that people who are false teachers can't ever say something that is true and helpful.

All truth is God's truth.

And so we can appreciate that.

Maybe you can...

take aspects of what someone says and apply it to the truth.

But the bigger question is, is what he is saying, is it true at all?