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There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereofare the ways of death. Proverbs 16:25

CHARTING THE PAGANISM OF GALEN AND JUNGJust look at these disturbing facts behind the background and beliefs of two men, Galen and

Jung, who Warren has relied on to develop his Personality Theory in SHAPE

GALEN OF PERGAMUM CARL JUNG BIBLICAL RESPONSE

THEIR GENERAL BACKGROUND

GALEN JUNG BIBLE

Galen of Pergamum, a pagan

physician and philosopher born in

A.D. 131, was strongly influenced

by the Greek myths and the

Hippocratic Treatises. Though

Galens teachings on medicine were

influential for centuries after his

death, very little is known abouthim personally. Some of his

writings have been preserved, but

many were lost forever in a library

fire during his lifetime.

He was best known for his

extensive anatomical studies, his

elaborate pharmacological formulas,

and his theory on the four

temperaments (melancholic,

phlegmatic, sanguine, and choleric)to classify human dispositions.

Jung was certainly not a religious

man in the Christian, Jewish,

Moslem or Buddhist sense. He wasessentially a pagan, more

specifically a worshipper of evil

gods and goddesses rather than

those of the Olympian religion.

Jung with his mixture of

sophisticated superstition, vague

pagan idolatry, and equally vague

talk about God, together with hisclaim that he was building a bridge

between religion and psychology,

offered the right mixture to an age

of little faith and little reason.(Erich Fromm, C.G. Jung: Prophet

of the Unconscious, Scientific

American, 1963, p.209)

Jung's psychological theories

were constructed deliberately, and

Romans 1:21-22: For even though

they knew God, they did not honor

Him as God, or give thanks; but they

became futile in their speculations,

and their foolish heart was darkened.

Professing to be wise, they became

fools

I Cor. 1:20-23: Where is the wise

man? Where is the scribe? Where is

the debater of this age? Has not God

made foolish the wisdom of the

world? For since in the wisdom of

God the world through its wisdomdid not come to know God, God was

well-pleased through the foolishness

of the message preached to save

those who believe. For indeed Jews

ask for signs, and Greeks search for

wisdom; but we preach Christ

crucified, to Jews a stumbling block,

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As a typical Greek, he was brought

up in the pagan myths of his day

and was not a Christian, though he

seemingly appreciated the Christian

sect as a philosophical school ofthought. As a student of medicine,

he became a devotee of Asclepius,

the Greek god of healing, and morethan likely adhered to the

Hippocratic oath which stated, I

swear by Apollo the physician, and

Asclepius, and Health, and All-heal,

and all the gods and goddesses, that,

according to my ability and

judgment, I will keep this Oath andthis stipulation

somewhat deceptively...to make his

own magical, polytheist, pagan

world view more palatable to a

secularized world conditioned to

respect only those ideas that seem tohave a scientific flair to them.

(Richard Noll, The Aryan Christ:

The Secret Life of Carl Jung,Random House, 1997, xv)

and to Gentiles foolishness

Rev. 22:14-15: Blessed are those

who wash their robes, so that they

may have the right to the tree of lifeand that they may enter the city by

the gates. Outside are the dogs and

sorcerers and the sexually immoraland murderers and idolaters, and

everyone who loves and practices

falsehood.

THEIR BELIEF IN ASTROLOGY

GALEN JUNG BIBLE

As an admirer of Hippocratic

medicine, Galen promoted and

improved on the theory of the four

temperaments, or humors. The

humors were associated with the

time of the year, the astrologicalcycles, and the astrological

information pertaining to a person's

birth. These changes in nature's

cycles would cause subtle changes

in a person's basic balance of

humors, perhaps making them more

susceptible to humoral imbalances.

Thus doctors also had to be wellversed in astrology, besides their

medical training to treat theirpatients correctly.

Hippocrates, Galens predecessor inGreek medicine, is recorded saying:

He who does not understand

astrology is not a doctor but a fool.

it must be confidentlydemonstrated that fire, earth, air,and water are the primary elements

In May of 1911 Carl Jung wrote his

(at that time) mentor Sigmund

Freud saying: Occultism is another

field we shall have to conquer - with

the aid of the libido theory, it seems

to me. At the moment I am lookinginto astrology, which seems

indispensable for a proper

understanding of mythology. There

are strange and wondrous things in

these lands of darkness.

Please don't worry about mywanderings in these infinitudes. I

shall return laden with rich booty

for our knowledge of the human

psyche.... For a while longer I mustintoxicate myself on magic

perfumes in order to fathom thesecrets that lie hidden in the abysses

of the unconscious

In a subsequent follow-up letter,

Jung wrote Freud that his (Jung's)

evenings were currently being takenup largely with astrology and the

Isaiah 47:12-15: Stand now with

thine enchantments, and with the

multitude of thy sorceries, wherein

thou hast laboured from thy youth; if

so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so

be thou mayest prevail. Thou artwearied in the multitude of thy

counsels. Let now the astrologers, the

stargazers, the monthly

prognosticators, stand up, and save

thee from these things that shall

come upon thee. Behold, they shall

be as stubble; the fire shall burn

them; they shall not deliverthemselves from the power of the

flame: there shall not be a coal towarm at, nor fire to sit before it. Thus

shall they be unto thee with whom

thou hast laboured, even thy

merchants, from thy youth: they shall

wander every one to his quarter; none

shall save thee.

Jeremiah 10:2-3: Thus saith the

LORD, Learn not the way of the

heathen, and be not dismayed at the

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common to all things... and in his

book On the Nature of Man,

Hippocrates is first to explain not

merely that these are the elements

of all the cosmos, but he is also thefirst one to determine the qualities

of the elements - qualities according

to which one thing acts on othersand is affected. (Galen's On the

Elements According to

Hippocrates)

calculating of horoscopes: in order

to find a clue to the core of human

psychology. (From The

Freud/Jung Letters, Abridged

Edition, 1979)

Letter written to Hindu astrologer,

B.V. Raman, September 6th 1947:Since you want to know my

opinion about astrology I can tell

you that I've been interested in this

particular activity of the human

mind since more than 30 years. As Iam a psychologist, I am chiefly

interested in the particular light the

horoscope sheds on certain

complications in the character. In

cases of difficult psychological

diagnosis I usually get a horoscope

in order to have a further point of

view from an entirely differentangle. I must say that I very often

found that the astrological dataelucidated certain points which I

otherwise would have been unable

to understand. From such

experiences I formed the opinion

that astrology is of particular

interest to the psychologist, since it

contains a sort of psychological

experience which we call 'projected'- this means that we find the

psychological facts as it were in the

constellations.

...the serpentine way of theindividual is the straightest way he

can possibly go. That is symbolized

by the serpentine way of the sun

through the Zodiac, and the

Zodiacal serpent is Christ, who said:

"I am the way [John 14:6]. He is theserpent, so in the early Christian

church he is the sun, and the signs

of the Zodiac, the apostles, are the

twelve months of the year. (C.G.

Jung,Dream Analysis, pp. 307-308.)

signs of heaven; for the heathen are

dismayed at them. For the customs of

the people are vain

(See also Deut. 18:9-12)

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THEIR BELIEF IN PAGANISM AND THE OCCULT

GALEN JUNG BIBLE

In his youth, Galen had a dream that

Asclepius (or Asklepius), the Greek

god of healing, told him to studymedicine and he thus became an

attendant of Asclepius within the

pagan temple dedicated to the god.

People came from all over the world

to be healed by the god Asclepius,who was worshiped in the form of a

living serpent fed in the temple. The

serpent was intimately connected

with one of the ways in which cures

were effected. Sufferers were

allowed to spend the night in the

darkness of the temple. In thetemple there were non-poisonous

snakes. If the sufferer was touched

by the harmless snakes during thenight (which was equivalent in their

thinking to being touched by a god

himself) he would be healed.

Galen records with apparent

agreement the case of a wealthyman who came to the shrine of

Asclepius at Pergamum and was

cured there by a dream from

Asclepius (Subfiguratio Empirica10,78 Deichgrber = Edelstein &

Edelstein T436, p. 250) and

acknowledges his own cure at the

hands of the god (De Libris

Propriis 2 = Edelstein & Edelstein

T458, p. 263).

Jung attended seances with his

cousin Helene Preiswerk and wrote

his dissertation on her psychicexperiences, On Psychology and

Pathology of So-Called Occult

Phenomena (1902). Beginning in

1913 he conversed with spirit

guides, in particular a guide named

Philemon, whom he called his

guru. One afternoon in the

summer of 1916 Jung experiencedspirits in his house. They gave him

what was to be the first sentence,

and under inspiration he wrote

Seven Sermons to the Dead in three

evenings. Jung felt that he wasexpressing the ideas of Philemon.

He distributed it privately under the

pseudonym Basilides. Jung said:All my works, all my creative

activity, has come from those initial

fantasies and dreams which began

in 1912 (MDR, p.217).

Philemon (Jungs spirit guide) wasa pagan and brought with him an

Egypto-Hellenistic atmosphere with

a Gnostic colouration. (Jung, from

Confrontation with theUnconscious MDR, pp. 174-8,

181-5)

Philemon and other figures of myfantasies brought home to me the

crucial insight that there are things

in the psyche which I do notproduce, but which produce

themselves and have their own life.

Philemon represented a force which

was not myself. In my fantasies I

held conversations with him, and he

said things which I had notconsciously thought. For I observed

clearly that it was he who spoke, not

I. . . . Psychologically, Philemon

represented superior insight. He wasa mysterious figure to me. At times

he seemed to me quite real, as if he

Exodus 20:3: You shall have no

other gods before Me.

Leviticus 19:31: Do not turn to

mediums or wizards; do not seek

them out, and so make yourselves

unclean by them: I am the Lord your

God.

Deut. 18:9-14: When you come into

the land that the Lord your God is

giving you, you shall not learn to

follow the abominable practices of

those nations. There shall not be

found among you anyone who burns

his son or his daughter as an offering,anyone who practices divination ortells fortunes or interprets omens, or

a sorcerer or a charmer or a medium

or a wizard or a necromancer, for

whoever does these things is an

abomination to the Lord. And

because of these abominations the

Lord your God is driving them out

before you. You shall be blamelessbefore the Lord your God, for these

nations, which you are about to

dispossess, listen to fortune-tellers

and to diviners. But as for you, theLord your God has not allowed you

to do this.

1 Chron. 10:13-14: So Saul died forhis breach of faith. He broke faith

with the Lord in that he did not keep

the command of the Lord, and also

consulted a medium, seeking

guidance. He did not seek guidance

from the Lord. Therefore the Lord

put him to death and turned the

kingdom over to David the son of

Jesse.

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were a living personality. I went

walking up and down the garden

with him, and to me he was what

the Indians call a guru. (Jung,

Memories, Dreams, Reflections, op.cit., p. 183.)

In 1935 Jung started buildingBollingen Tower, a stone building

by a lake, which represented

himself. After the death of his wife

in 1955, he so considered Bollingen

his true home that he had Shrine ofPhilemon inscribed over its

entrance. (Memories, Dreams,

Recollections, p.235)

THEIR FALSE VIEW OF CHRISTIANITY

GALEN JUNG BIBLE

Galen compared medical doctorswho practiced without scientific

training to Moses, who promulgated

laws and wrote his books without

proofs, simply saying, 'God

commanded, God spoke!' In histreatise de usu partium Galen

criticized the Mosaic cosmogony

and rejected its reliance on divinemiracle. (Stephen Benko, Pagan

Rome and the Early Christians, BT

Batsford Ltd, London, 1984, p 142-

3)

Galen was a pagan who was criticalof Christianity, but from an

objective and scientific point of

view. He was an ancient scientist,

involved in live animal vivisectionsand as a gladiator physician able to

observe human responses. Thus he

had no respect for religions that

were based on faith alone, because

in his opinion faith was a poor

substitute for experienced truth.

The utter failure came at theCrucifixion in the tragic words, "My

God, my God, why hast thou

forsaken me?" If you want to

understand the full tragedy of those

words you must realize what theymeant: Christ saw that his whole

life, devoted to the truth according

to his best conviction, had been aterrible illusion

We all must do just what Christdid. We must make our experiment.

We must make mistakes. We must

live out our own vision of life. And

there will be error. If you avoid

error you do not live; in a sense

even it may be said that every life is

a mistake, for no one has found thetruth. When we live like this weknow Christ as a brother, and God

indeed becomes man. This sounds

like a terrible blasphemy, but not so.

For then only can we understand

Christ as he would want to be

Matthew 10:32-33: Jesus said, So

everyone who acknowledges me

before men, I also will acknowledge

before my Father who is in heaven,but whoever denies me before men, I

also will deny before my Father whois in heaven.

1 John 2:22: Who is the liar but he

who denies that Jesus is the Christ?

This is the antichrist, he who denies

the Father and the Son.

Psalm 26:2-5: Prove me, O Lord,

and try me; test my heart and my

mind. For your steadfast love is

before my eyes, and I walk in your

faithfulness. I do not sit with men of

falsehood, nor do I consort withhypocrites. I hate the assembly ofevildoers, and I will not sit with the

wicked.

1 Cor. 15:33: Do not be deceived:

Bad company corrupts good

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understood, as a fellow man; then

only does God become man in

ourselves. (Jung, New York

Lecture, edited by Lane A. Pratt,

1972.)

The self or Christ is present ineverybody, a priori, but as a rulein an unconscious condition to

begin with. But it is a definite

experience of later life, when the

fact becomes conscious. It is not

really understood by teaching or

suggestion. It is only real when it

happens, and it can happen only

when you withdraw yourprojections from an outward

historical or metaphysical Christand wake up this Christ within.

(C.G. Jung, Psychology and

Religion West and East, CollectedWorks 11, par 1638, c1958)

I had been living with the stillmedieval concepts of my parents,

for whom the world and men were

still presided over by divineomnipotence and providence. This

world had become antiquated and

obsolete. My Christian faith had

become relative through its

encounter with Eastern religions

and Greek philosophy. (Jung,Man

and His Symbols, p.43)

Jung was waging war againstChristianity and its distant, absolute,

unreachable God and was traininghis disciples to listen to the voice of

the dead and to become gods

themselves. (Richard Noll, The

Jung Cult, p. 224)

morals.

2 Cor. 6:14-16: Do not be unequally

yoked with unbelievers. For what

partnership has righteousness withlawlessness? Or what fellowship has

light with darkness? What accord has

Christ with Belial? Or what portiondoes a believer share with an

unbeliever? What agreement has the

temple of God with idols?...

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ARE THESE THE KINDS OF INFLUENCES RICK WARRENBELIEVES CAN BRING GODLY INSIGHT TO CHRISTIANS?

THE BIBLE SAYS: Do not be bound together with unbelievers; for what

partnership have righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship has

light with darkness? Or what harmony has Christ with Belial, or what hasa believer in common with an unbeliever? --- I Cor. 6:14-15.

All my works, all my creative activity, has comefrom those initial fantasies and dreams which began

in 1912. ~ Carl Jung, on the occult influence uponthe whole of his work.

Ask yourself questions: Am I more introverted orextroverted? Am I more a thinker or a feeler? ~Rick Warren, using exact Jungian psychological

typology in his SHAPE program.

THE SADDLEBACK RESPONSE: PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE MANBEHIND THE CURTAIN...

SHAPE is originated by Pastor Rick Warren, our senior pastornot Carl Jung. There

are NO connections between the two and there is absolutely no reason to try to connectthem.

Written by Erik Rees, Pastor of Ministry & Small Group Leadership Development at Saddleback Church, in a letter to

James Sundquist, 2/19/2004.

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CHARTING THE WARREN-JUNG CONNECTION

RICK WARREN CARL JUNG BIBLICAL RESPONSE

THEIR CONNECTION ON PERSONALITY THEORY

WARREN JUNG BIBLE

When you minister in a mannerconsistent with the personality God

gave you, you experiencefulfillment, satisfaction, and

fruitfulness. (The Purpose Driven

Life, p. 246)

when you are forced to ministerin a manner that is out of

character for your temperament, it

creates tension and discomfort,

requires extra effort and energy, andproduces less than the best results.

This is why mimicking someoneelses ministry never works. You

dont have their personality. (PDL,

p. 245)

the ultimate aim and strongestdesire of all mankind is to develop

that fulness (sic) of life which iscalled personality To the extent

that a man is untrue to the law of his

being and does not rise to

personality, he has failed to realize

his lifes meaning. (The

Development of Personality,

Collected Works 17; from The

Essential Jung, pg. 191, 207)

There is absolutely no biblicalprecedent for this position.

Personality typology has never been

a criteria for God choosing someone

for ministry, but is in great part

grounded in Jungian psychology.

Did Paul rely on personality

assessment to guide his ministry?Hardly...

God has chosen the weak things ofthe world to shame the things which

are strong, and the base things of the

world and the despised, God has

chosen, the things that are not, that

He might nullify the things that are,

that no man should boast before

God. 1 Cor 1:27-29

And He has said to me, My graceis sufficient for you, for power is

perfected in weakness. Most gladly,therefore, I will rather boast about

my weaknesses, that the power of

Christ may dwell in me. Therefore Iam well content with weaknesses,

with insults, with distresses, with

persecutions, with difficulties, for

Christ's sake; for when I am weak,

then I am strong. 2 Cor 12:9-10

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THEIR CONNECTION ON A MUTUAL BELIEF IN THE "UNCONSCIOUS"

WARREN JUNG BIBLE

You may be driven by a painfulmemory, a haunting fear, or an

unconscious belief. (PDL, p. 27)

(Guilt-driven people) oftenunconsciously punish themselves by

sabotaging their own success.

(PDL, pp. 27-28)

The unconscious . . . is the sourceof the instinctual forces of the

psyche and of the forms or

categories that regulate them,

namely the archetypes. (The

Structure of the Psyche, CW 8, par.

342)

Constant observation pays theunconscious a tribute that more orless guarantees its cooperation. One

of the most important tasks of

psychic hygiene [is] to pay

continual attention to the

symptomatology of unconscious

contents and processes. (The

Portable Jung, New York: Penguin

Books, 1986, p. 156)

The unconscious is the

foundational concept of both

Freudian and Jungian psychology,

and has no biblical basis whatsoever.In fact, Scripture does not allow for

the idea that people are driven by

an unconscious belief. By

endorsing the idea of the

unconscious, Warren is promoting the

Jungian belief that people must

analyze the forces of the unconscious

to discover their lifes purpose.

According to Scripture, any driving

force outside of Gods will is sin, no

matter where it resides. Psychology,

however, downplays our personal

accountability for sin by making the

unconscious the ultimate reservoir

and bastion of unavoidable humaninstinct.

And he that doubteth is damned ifhe eat, because [he eateth] not of

faith: for whatsoever [is] not of faith

is sin. Romans 14:23

THEIR CONNECTION ON UNCONSCIOUS METAPHORS & IMAGES

WARREN JUNGBIBLE

If I asked how you picture life,

what image would come to yourmind? That image is your life

metaphor. Its the view of life that

you hold, consciously or

unconsciously, in your mind.(PDL, pp. 41-42)

An archetypal content expresses

itself, first and foremost, inmetaphors. (The Psychology of

the Child Archetype, CW 9i, par.

267)

Archetypes are not inborn ideas, but

typical forms of behaviour which,

The analysis of metaphors housed

in the unconscious is a trademarkconcept of psychology, not ofScripture. The use of images,

fantasies, and dreams to better

understand our unconscious is a

signature feature of Jungian

psychotherapy that borders on the

occult.

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Your unspoken life metaphorinfluences your life more than yourealize. It determines your

expectations, your values, your

relationships, your goals, and your

priorities. (PDL, p. 42)

once they become conscious,

naturally present themselves as

ideas and images, like everything

else that becomes a content of

consciousness. (Collected Works 8,par. 435)

Indeed, the fate of the individual islargely dependent on unconscious

factors. (Conscious, Unconscious,

and Individuation CW 9)

THEIR CONNECTION ON USING JUNGIAN TERMINOLOGY

WARREN JUNG BIBLE

God made introverts andextroverts He made some people

thinkersand others feelers.

(PDL, p. 245)

Your personality will affect howand where you use your spiritualgifts and abilities. For instance, two

people may have the same gift of

evangelism, but if one is introverted

and other is extroverted, that gift

will be expressed in different ways.

(PDL, p. 245)

Ask yourself questions: Am Imore introverted or extroverted?

Am I more a thinker or a feeler?

(PDL, pp.251-252)

Two types (of typical differencesin human psychology) especially

become clear to me; I have termed

them the introverted and theextraverted types. (Introduction

Psychological Types, CW 6 par. 1)

I have found from experience thatthe basic psychological functions,

this is, functions which are

genuinely as well as essentially

different from other functions,

prove to be thinking, feeling,

sensation, and intuition. If one of

these functions habituallypredominates, a corresponding type

results. I therefore distinguish a

thinking, a feeling, a sensation, and

an intuitive type.Each of these

types may moreover be either

introverted or extraverted

(Introduction Psychological

Types, CW 6)

Warren is explicitly using the specificterminology of the psychological

typology theory originally conceived

by Carl Jung. Despite the claims of

his supporters, Warren has clearly

based his Personality Theory (the "P"

in his SHAPE teaching) on the

unbiblical foundation of Jungian

psychology.

Beware lest any man spoil youthrough philosophy and vain deceit,after the tradition of men, after the

rudiments of the world, and not after

Christ. Colossians 2:8

Now we have received, not thespirit of the world, but the Spirit who

is from God, that we might know the

things freely given to us by God,

which things we also speak, not in

words taught by human wisdom, but

in those taught by the Spirit,combining spiritual thoughts with

spiritual words. 1 Cor 2:12-13

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THEIR CONNECTION ON THE FOUR TEMPERAMENTS

WARREN JUNG BIBLE

The Bible gives us plenty of proofthat God uses all types of

personalities. Peter was a sanguine.Paul was a choleric. Jeremiah was a

melancholy. When you look at the

personality differences in the twelve

disciples, its easy to see why they

sometimes had interpersonal

conflict. (PDL, p. 245)

There is no right or wrongtemperament for ministry. (PDL, p.245)

the physicians of ancienttimestried to reduce the

bewildering diversity of mankind toorderly groups The very names of

the Galenic temperaments betray

their origin in the pathology of the

four humours.Melancholic

denotes a preponderance of black

bile,phlegmatic a preponderance of

phlegm or mucus, sanguine a

preponderance of blood, andcholeric a preponderance of choler,

or yellow bile. (Psychological

Typology CW 6)

The whole make-up of the body,its constitution in the broadest

sense, has in fact a very great deal

to do with psychological

temperament (Psychological

Typology CW 6)

Despite Warrens claim, the Bible

never gives proof of the

classification of personalities; it is apurely pagan concoction. The four

temperaments, as conceived by

Hippocrates and later developed byGalen, was a prevalent Greek

philosophy during the time of Paulsapostolic ministry. Unlike Warren

and Jung, however, Paul did not

implement these Greeks ideas into

his teachings. In fact, he categorically

rejected them and determined to

know nothing among you except

Jesus Christ, and Him crucified (I

Cor 2:2).

O Timothy, keep that which iscommitted to thy trust, avoidingprofane [and] vain babblings, and

oppositions of science falsely so

called: I Timothy 6:20

Worse yet, Warren is teaching that a

persons no right or wrongpersonality is somehow unaffected by

the fall and is always beneficial for

ministry. How, we ask, does a

phlegmatic temperament towardslaziness and slothfulness serve Gods

purpose in ministry?

THEIR CONNECTION ON PERSONALITY TESTING

WARREN JUNG BIBLE

Today there are many books andtools that can help you understand

your personality so you can

determine how to use it for God.

(PDL, p. 246)

MBTI is based on Jungs theory of

psychological types. (Isabel BriggsMyers, Introduction to Type, PaloAlto, CA: Consulting Psychologists

Press, 1983, p.4)

The (MBTI) Indicator wasdeveloped specifically to carry Carl

Without qualifying this statement,

Warren is promoting any and allJungian personality and temperamenttests and theories, including the

widely-used Myers-Briggs Type

Indicator (MBTI), the Kiersey

Temperament Sorter (an offshoot of

the MBTI), and the Enneagram Test,

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Jungs theory of type (Jung, 1921,

1971) into practical application.

(Dr. Gordon Lawrence, People

Types & Tiger Stripes, p. 6, also p.

x)

Carl Jungs psychology liesbehind...the MBTI. (Robert Innes,Personality Indicators and The

Spiritual Life, p.8)

which has its origin in Sufism, a

mystical offshoot of Islam. (Click

here for more information on

Enneagram).

Despite the contrary advice offered

by Warren, Christians must

acknowledge the Bible as the onlybook needed to understand the

human condition:

For the word of God [is] quick, andpowerful, and sharper than any two-

edged sword, piercing even to the

dividing asunder of soul and spirit,

and of the joints and marrow, and [is]a discerner of the thoughts and

intents of the heart. Hebrews 4:12

(See also II Timothy 3:16-17)

THEIR CONNECTION ON THE ENDORSEMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY

WARREN JUNG BIBLE

Every behavior is motivated by abelief, and every action is prompted

by an attitude. God revealed this

thousands of years beforepsychologists understood it. (PDL,

p. 181)

(Unconscious phenomena)manifest themselves in the

individuals behaviour

(Conscious, Unconscious, andIndividuation CW 9)

Modern psychologicaldevelopment leads to a much better

understanding as to what man really

consists of. (Psychology and

Religion CW 11)

Warren is suggesting here that

psychologists have the same

understanding as God on the issue of

human behavior, thus putting manswisdom on equal footing with

Gods revelation.

If Warren truly believes in the

preeminence of Gods revelation tounderstand man, then why does he

rely so heavily on the useless

wisdom of psychology instead of

Scripture?

For the wisdom of this world isfoolishness before God. For it is

written, He is THE ONE WHOCATCHES THE WISE IN THEIR

CRAFTINESS; and again, THE

LORD KNOWS THEREASONINGS of the wise, THAT

THEY ARE USELESS. I Cor 3:19-

20

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THEIR CONNECTION ON FINDING AND DEVELOPING PERSONALITY

WARREN JUNG BIBLE

The best use of your life is to serve

God out of your shape. To do thisyou must discover your shape, learn

to accept and enjoy it, and then

develop it to its fullest potential.

(PDL, p. 249)

The SHAPE program states: To

discover your S.H.A.P.E. is to

discover where God is calling you

to do His work in the world.

Only the man who can consciously

assent to the power of the innervoice becomes a personality. (The

Development of Personality CW

17)

The achievement of personalitymeans nothing less than the

optimum development of the whole

individual human being. (TheDevelopment of Personality CW

17)

In so far as every individual hasthe law of his life inborn in him, itis theoretically possible for any man

to follow this law and to become a

personality, this is, to achieve

wholeness. (The Development ofPersonality CW 17)

Finding your SHAPE has no biblical

support. Warrens teaching that onemust discover his shape is

philosophically and systematicallyakin to Jungs teaching that a man

must consciously assent to the

power of the inner voice and be true

to the law of his being.

While Warren has rightlyacknowledged Gods sovereign

purpose in creating us, he has

mistakenly made Gods divine

purpose synonymous with our so-

called shape by advocating theJungian idea of developing the

personality to achieve wholeness.

This Jungian process, however, does

not serve God, but serves the god

within us.

Scripture calls for an active, heartfelt

obedience to Gods will through the

transforming power of the Spirit, not

a misguided exploration of our

natural psychological makeup todefine our God-given purpose.

Trust in the LORD with all thineheart; and lean not unto thine own

understanding. In all thy ways

acknowledge him, and he shall direct

thy paths. Proverbs 3:5-6

your faith should not rest on thewisdom of men, but on the power of

God. 1 Cor 2:5

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CONCLUSION: THIS IS NOT SIMPLY "GUILT BY ASSOCIATION"

Yes, Jesus associated with sinners, but he certainly didn't borrow his teachings fromthe Pharisees or any other false teachers. Clearly there is a very tangible connectionbetween Rick Warren's SHAPE teaching on personality and the psychological

theories of Carl Jung. Not only does Warren base his teachings on parallelpsychological concepts, but he uses exactJungian terms to make his case. Byfocusing on assessing and developing ones personality as the key to a successful lifeor ministry, Warren, like Jung, is promoting a reliance on ones inner self instead ofon Gods transcendent truth and the working of the Holy Spirit. As a popularChristian teacher, how can Warren ignore the crucial biblical truths of the sufficiencyof Scripture and the power of the Holy Spirit to perfectly furnish every Christianwith the ability to minister according to God's purpose?

All scripture [is] given by inspiration of God, and [is] profitable fordoctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto ALLGOOD WORKS. II Timothy 3:16-17

According as his divine power hath given unto us ALL THINGSthat [pertain] unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him

that hath called us to glory and virtue: II Peter 1:3

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