Man and the Idea of Self-Expression
A Biblical Critique of a Popular Philosophy

Part 1

By David M Tyler, PhD

Featured Excerpt

Self-expression did not begin with psychology. It began with the serpent’s lie that obedience to God is suppression and self-assertion is freedom.

Introduction

Modern culture praises self-expression as essential to mental health, authenticity, and personal freedom. To suppress one’s desires is said to be harmful, even immoral. But Scripture tells a very different story. The Bible traces the idea of self-expression not to human flourishing, but to human rebellion.

To understand the danger of this philosophy, we must […]