Article September 12, 1994 Issue

"I just don't accept that!"

Harriet Barry Schupp

I Needed a continuing education course, and the one offered at the time and location I could attend consisted, in part, of a discussion of how psychology could be helpful in business. I listened interestedly and, at first, found myself thinking that these concepts could be useful in understanding others and thus in communicating better. The thesis was that people could be classified by the way they supposedly process information and make decisions and that, by understanding this, you could adapt your presentation to them and thus influence their behavior.

I wasn't long into this course, however, before I began to reject this whole line of reasoning. In fact, I found myself thinking, time and again, "I just don't accept that!"

The basis for my rejecting this view of man comes from a spiritual understanding of the Bible teaching that it is God who has created us—expressing qualities of His own nature. God is divine Principle, and man, as the witness or expression of God, Spirit, is not governed by laws of psychology, mortality, or matter. In reality, he is spiritual and governed by God alone. The very nature of God's child is therefore ordered, directed, and supported by this all-good heavenly Father. So, far from being brain-centered mortals with humanly set patterns of thought, we all are actually ideas of the one divine, infinite Mind, God. This is "the mind of Christ" (I Cor. 2:16) that Christ Jesus demonstrated.

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