Those who are not mentally ill may be accused of being so (Hosea 9:7, 2 Timothy 1:7).
Paul was accused of this but was perfectly sane (Acts 26:24-25, 2 Corinthians 5:13). Jesus was accused of this (Mark 3:21, John 10:20).
Was He crazy?
Not everyone who has been diagnosed with a mental illness is necessarily mentally ill.
There are three tenets in psychology that identify Christian characteristics as mental illness.
1) Believing such verses as (Matthew 5:10-12, Luke 6:22-23, and 2 Timothy 3:10-12) is identified as a "
persecution complex"
2) Following (Psalms 1 and 1 Peter 2:1-3) is identified as "
religious preoccupation"
3) And watching and waiting for the Lord's return can be misconstrued as being
manic.
It is written,
Psa 119:69, The proud have forged a lie against me: but I will keep thy precepts with my whole heart.
I believe that the lie being prophesied about, there in Psalms, is Freudian psychology.
It is "
thine iniquity and the great hatred" (Hosea 9:7) that leads people to identify born again believers as mentally ill....mad.
Hos 9:7, The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred.
After all, we follow the Beattitudes (Matthew 5:1-12) and therefore we are an upside-down people.
Our paradigm and personality is completely different from that of this world system.
The devil takes advantage of the difference in personality, between born again believers, and those who have not been regeneraated, and utilizes it to persecute the born again while leaving his own people alone.
He doesn't have to fight his own people...for he is their master.
So, he forged a lie against believers...identifying the attributes of those who internalize the word of God and then condemning those attributes as mental illness.