I am not in favor on Hypnosis. I think its very dangerous and should be avoided at all costs.
I decided not to allow this comment that is in favor of Hypnosis because its in direct conflict with both logic and the Bible.
I believe that Hypnotherapy is very dangerous. I believe that no person, Christian or not, should go under this mental knife. Many years ago, this was the mainstream thought in the Christian community. Now things have changed. Many deceived Christians now say that its ok. Its not really surprising. There are a lot of things that were once forbidden in our Churches that some have now decided are fine.
One example. We even have so-called Churches now that allow gay marriage.
But just because some have changed their minds, does not make these things right.
The mind is very powerful. God spoke the world into existence with only his words. These words came from his heart and mind. In us, the mind is also the brain. The heart, mind, and soul is who we truly are. The brain controls the entire body.
To mess with these controls is very dangerous. We know very little about the brain and its abilities. To mess with something that we know very little about is just plain crazy.
It would be like me trying to perform surgery. I know computers. I know nothing about the brain or surgery. So for me to perform surgery on a brain is ludicrous. But yet, this is what we are doing when we allow someone to work on our brain.
We are giving this Hypnotherapist control over our very being.
We are allowing someone, that knows very little about how the brain really functions, to come in and make adjustments to it.
This would be like asking a customer service person to do brain surgery on you. It makes no sense at all to allow it.
This is the logical side of my argument. What about from a Biblical stance?
Well, the Bible does not specifically address Hypnotherapy, but that does not mean that its ok. Some think that just because a thing is not mentioned by name in the Bible, its ok to do.
I find this argument to be extremely silly. I hear it all the time. 'The bible does not address Gays, Homosexuals, Hypnosis, etc.. by name, so it must be ok, right?"
This is a really poor argument. Up until about 50 years ago, or so, the word Gay simply meant someone that was happy. We changed the meaning of it.
The word Homosexual was invented in the 1800's. Since these terms were not invented yet, how can we possibly expect God to have used these terms in the bible?
Hypnotherapy, at least by that name, was also unknown in Jesus day.
In order for God to say that certain things were wrong, to an audience that knew little to nothing about such sins yet, he would need to talk about them in more general terms.
Hypnosis involves the transfer of control away from ourselves to another person. Galatians 5:22-23
We are to give over the control of our mind only to God. Romans 6:12-13
Hypnotism is often promoted as a simple way of “refocusing” ourselves and finding the answer within us. As believers in Christ, our focus is to be on our Savior, not on ourselves or anything else. Hebrews 12:2, Romans 7:18, Romans 8:2
Many of the techniques used in hypnosis are shared by mystical, philosophical, and religious systems, including the occult. The “father of hypnotism,” Franz Anton Mesmer—from whose name we get the word mesmerize—was himself a practitioner of the occult. Deuteronomy 18:9-12 tells us that we can not have anything to do with the occult.
So I think the Bible is all too clear, as does logic tell us, that we should have nothing to do with Hypnosis.
