In God's Image After All: How Psychology Supports Biblical Creationism

by Paul D. Ackerman

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801002230
• ISBN13: 9780801002236
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Baker Publishing Group (MI)
• Length: 101 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Age Range: 16 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 10 and higher

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Insights that Deal With the Reality of Human Nature

Ackerman's brief work (101 pages) offers insights as to how psychology (of course, there are so MANY schools of psychology; perhaps it is better to say, "psychological theories that do not downplay the preponderance of evil intrinsic within people":)) supports the Biblical perspective of fallen human nature and creation in general.Chapters include topics not often covered, among them: Normal Unhappiness (worth the price of the book itself), Moral Inconsistencies, and The Reality of Choice.The chapter about "Normal Unhappiness" claims that most people have an emotional thermostat that maintains a "moderately unhappy" setting. When great things happen, they are high for a while, but then settle down to that setting. When tragedy occurs, they tend to get down for a while, and then work up to it.As a pastor of 22 years who has dealt with people at all levels (visiting the babies at the hospital, teaching kids, counseling, marrying, visiting in the home, the hospital, and conducting funerals), I will vouch that the author has an authentic view of the realities of human nature. It fits with "what is." Go for it.