04/11/2026
This video is part of the study of Lesson 2, conducted weekly by the Seventh-day Adventist Church “Facing Reality.”
Over the next few weeks, we will walk together through these lessons…
but through a different lens.
We will integrate the Bible with the relational psychoanalysis of Harry Stack Sullivan — who understood that human beings are formed and transformed through relationships.
We will also engage with the neuroscience of Mark Solms, a pioneer of neuropsychoanalysis, who demonstrates that the human mind is deeply emotional and driven by the search for meaning.
And with the discoveries of Jaak Panksepp, who identified the brain’s basic emotional systems — especially the attachment system, essential for us to feel alive, connected, and safe.
This week’s lesson invites us into something far deeper than studying divine attributes.
It invites us to revisit the image of God that we carry within us.
Because, in practice…
many people are not turning away from God.
They are turning away from a distorted image they learned about Him.
An image shaped not by the Bible…
but by emotional experiences lived throughout life.
Perhaps you even know that God is love…
but still feel like you need to earn it.
That you need to get everything right.
That you cannot fail.
And this is not a lack of faith.
It is an emotional lens that needs healing.
This lesson begins exactly where everything was broken:
in the distortion of God’s character.
And it ends where everything can be restored:
in Jesus.
Emmanuel — God with us.
✨ Knowing God is not just about learning who He is.
It is having the courage to unlearn who He never was.
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Let’s rebuild, together, a faith that is not born from fear… but from encounter.
