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The True Face of Self-Love
The Bible offers a different perspective than your therapist
The secular world is really good at calling good evil and evil good.
The Bible warns us about this. However, these ideas invade our thinking at such a slow pace that it lowers our guard and, eventually, we accept them without scrutiny.
After all, the atheist culture we live in today will always rub off on us in one way or another. But it is our duty as Christians to keep ourselves in check.
This especially concerns the subject of self-idolatry. A narrative supported by modern psychology and, unfortunately, accepted by the church. We have even adopted the language:
- self-love,
- self-care,
- self-respect,
- self-confidence
- self-belief etc.
The thing is that God created us to worship; we all feel this urge. But the secular world has redirected that urge, designating themselves as the objects of worship.
Of course, this narrative is packaged as a therapeutic message. Some even use the airplane analogy: put the oxygen mask on yourself before assisting others.