Bondage Breaker

The Bondage Breaker: A Critique of Neil Anderson's Supernatural Systems Approach

Suzanne Sneed

Student ID # L22352967

Liberty University Online

COUN507

End of Class: 12/16/2011

Dr. Smith

Submitted: 12/04//2011

Anderson believes that people are struggling with sin and are seeking alternative ways to relieve their suffering. Although, at times Dr. Anderson may seem to present hatred towards certain people such as psychics and mediums (p. 127), his biblical model for sanctification is one that can help people become free from the ties that bind. His model is based on the belief that many people are in bondage to various forms of Satanism and the occult. The growing secular movement has led to an increase in spirituality, but a new age spirituality, such as witchcraft, psychics, astrology, yoga, all of which Anderson says that we must renounce in order to become free.

Is Dr. Anderson breaking from integration of psychology and theology? He argues that most of the attempts at integration focus on us as fallen individuals and what we need to do to redeem ourselves to have a new life in Christ. Dr. Anderson mentions that we need to include the activity of Satan and his demons who attempt to control us through their lies and deceit. Although, he makes no comparison to Freud, the idea that we hear voices in our heads comes from Freud's concept of the superego. According to Freud, the ego is the physical body that has contact with the external world. The superego can be analogous to your conscience or soul (i.e. the inner self). The superego contains a person's moral code that can be attacked by Satan and his demons through other fallen individuals (Corey, 2005, p.57). People who are hurting and suffering are hearing lies and deceit and spread those lies to other people. When someone else says that you are worthless and won't amount to anything, these are lies that are spread by Satan and his demons (Anderson, 2000, p. 41). The more we believe in these lies,...