Christians Get Depressed Too

by David P. Murray

The human mind, however much fallen and perverted from its original integrity, is still adorned and invested with admirable gifts from its Creator.... We will be careful ... not to

In some cases the Scriptures will be explicit. In others we can deduce helpful principles. But in some areas we need to use our Bible as spectacles to read and learn from the knowledge God has distributed and deposited in the world. If we refuse to do this, if we say that we must separate ourselves from all knowledge outside the Bible, there is the risk of inadvertently undermining the sufficiency of Scripture. It is effectively saying that the Bible is not sufficient to help us read this world and learn from it, so we must separate ourselves from it. I believe the Bible is sufficient to enable us to read science and separate the wheat from the chaff, to separate valid observations and conclusions from the false, and so make use of the knowledge that God, in His “common grace” or “providence” has made known