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Psychology and the Bible
After many years of studying human behavior at one of the finest universities in the world, Harvard psychiatrist Robert Coles remarked, "Nothing I have discovered about the makeup of human beings contradicts in any way what I have learned from the Hebrew prophets such as Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Amos, and from the Book of Ecclesiastes, and from Jesus and the lives of those he touched. Anything that I can say as a result of my research into human behavior is a mere footnote to those lives in the Old and New Testaments"