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Linda
Saturday, March 07, 2009 at 09:19 AM -
What is depression?
Will you be my friend
Thursday, May 21, 2009 at 06:47 PMIf a kid were to ask me what depression is I would say, it is a lack of love. Either love was given or received incorrectly. In order to be healed from depression one must understand what love really mean:
1 Corinthians 13
The Way of Love
1If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned,[a] but have not love, I gain nothing.
4 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant 5or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;[b] 6it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. 7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. 9For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. 11When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. 12For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.
13So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
re: What is depression?
Kris
Monday, June 22, 2009 at 11:13 PMI don't see any part of the verses that you quoted that acknowledges the physical, biological/chemical causes of depression. It's rarely a good idea to try and boil complex issues down to one or two causes.
re: re: What is depression?
Will you be my friend
Tuesday, June 23, 2009 at 01:30 AMDepression can be described as suppressed sin.
Often people want to cover up things that do not appear to look good. After the fall of man, Adam recognized he was naked. When God called for Adam, he hid because he knew he had sinned. Adam did not know he was naked until he had sinned. He realized he needed to be covered because he did not look the same. Not all of life's questions can be answered by science alone. Sin parallels science but is not driven or compelled by such. Man has a sin nature because he was born into sin not science. Adam stepped out of the love relationship with God not because God had a lack of love for him, but Adam was misguided by scientific and mathematical thinking.
The biological nature of a man is determined by how he lives his life. A being that walks on all fours and swings from trees will no doubt be called an ape. But if a man takes on the physical attributes of an ape he does so because who he really is has been suppressed. A mind is a terrible thing to waste. When the mind is idle for too long it causes leakage of knowledge. Some would call this a chemical reaction or response. Whenever man does not use the gifts and talents given to him by God, his mind is affected because he does not know what to do with himself.
Complex issues in life can be described as:
- 1) Death
- 2) Life
Galatians 6:8 For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
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Such a great article! I wish I'd had this when my husband was in the midst of his depression. He suffers from both Depression and PTSD, and for years we never new it...until he had a nervous breakdown. He's doing great now on meds and, oddly enough, his disease brought us closer together and made our marriage stronger. Thanks so much for sharing your experiences!