Query on Personality Tests

Some of this is my thoughts, others came from Rachel Jancovic. I'm still thinking on this, because I don't feel I have the answers.  Any thoughts? Perhaps you have insights into personality tests. 





Here's where we may differ. Greatly. (If we haven't already.)

Personality tests have become very prevalent in our society. Find your true self. Find what drives you. Find who you are compatible with. Find your strengths and weaknesses. A road to your true self.

Hmmm.

Question. Where have these tests originated? They come out of the whole psychology movement. (which is another topic entirely.) But the psychology movement is based on the ideas of men who were without God and the Bible as their foundation.

So what is the issue? If ungodly men want to take ungodly views of "finding their true selves," why is that a problem? Or even surprising?

Because the church has picked it up and adapted it. They've taken personality tests and made them "Christian." So now we are on a road to "find our true self in Christ."

Knowing who we are in Christ. That's good. But our "true self?" That is a wicked, sinful flesh that Christ is working to redeem. That self is what Christ wants to come under His blood, to remove, to conform to His image. And we are on the path to find it?

Furthermore, these personality tests, though they may seem harmless, are based on men's ideas. Men who rejected God. So yes, thank you, we will take your advice for our authority.

Am I saying personality tests are completely worthless, have no value, never helped anyone? Not exactly. Because there are people who say these tests have showed them some strengths and weaknesses in their lives and have made them understand better why they do what they do.

So maybe they can show you where to grow? But cannot the Holy Spirit, come from God, full of truth and light, cannot He show you even more fully the areas you need to grow in without using a test that was based on an atheist's ideas? Can we not leave it to God to redeem our wicked selves and transform our lives into what He would have us be? Can we trust God to do this without a personality test?