1 Harmful recipe, deceptive hope
• New vocabulary
• Secular words and spiritual words
• How people were declared sick
• No sin — no guilt

2 Sin matters
• New good news
• Changes in terminology: illness, God's love and grace
• In slavery to sin
• Addiction: Sin or Disease
• The problem is idolatry.
• Heart desires become behavioral habits
• Confession of sin is our hope

3 Sickness or sin?
• Trojan horse
• Classification criteria for diseases
• Verbal disobedience to God
• The axe already lies at the roots of the trees.

4 Creating diseases
• Creation of mental illness
• Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
• Where is the disease, and where is the norm?
• Anxiety, worry and fear
• Antisocial personality disorder
• Mental health and money
• Conclusions

5 Is Chemical Imbalance the Cause of Sin?
• Pillar One: The Theory of Evolution
• Refutation of the first pillar: a person is not a rat
• Pillar Two: Understanding Human Nature
• Refutation of the second pillar: conceived in sin
• Pillar Three: Money
• Mental health machinery
• Influence of the pharmaceutical industry
• Is it a sin to take medication for mental illness?
• Chemical Imbalance Theory and Depression
• Cause and effect
• Final remarks

6 Slippery Road to the Abyss
• Who are evangelical Christians?
• Is there a place for psychology in the evangelical movement?
• Why has psychology become so popular in evangelical churches?
• The psychologized neo-evangelical movement
• Churches for therapy and rehabilitation of addicts
• Conclusions

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