Seriously...The Mental Health of Jesus?

A Heart Refined with Rachel Menard
Nov 12, 2025
5 min read

During my time in school, I found it to interesting how much material there is on the insistence of the deity of Jesus. Let me clarify... It's not at all that I thought there was too much material or that I didn't believe that to be true! Thanks to my faithful parents and the movement of the Holy Spirit in my heart...It's just that the fact that Jesus is a member of the God-head has just always been a logical conclusion for me.

As I sat under the extended tutelage of these brilliant minds, generations of godly scholars, authors, professors, and even old country preachers, insisting on this truth over and over, I only became more sure of the glorious fact that JESUS IS GOD!

So, while looking up something the other day on my own mental wack-a-doodle-ness, I was most certainly shocked to find an entire Wikipedia page titled "The Mental Health of Jesus."

...And of course I took the bait! Surely this was a joke! But sadly not at all...

The article, at length, goes into a breakdown of the supposed "cognitive dysfunction" of Jesus, as described by many authors across the globe, assuming an understanding of Jesus based on a limited experience with Scripture and on earthly credentials that I am quite sure are impressive on some scale.

These minds, who have obviously thought of themselves more highly than they should, claim Jesus had a wide array of selfish psychopathic problems, including being bipolar, a madman, a fanatic, one with abnormal nerve stimulation, and religious paranoia. Along with some weird, sad-faced, historically inaccurate picture of a white Jesus, they unashamedly declare that He was—and should still be considered today—a deranged, delusional, deceptive, schizotypal megalomaniac.

Lemuel K. Washburn, a turn-of-the-century "Free-thought" author, said, "Jesus was not divine, but insane."

Ok...UGGH! I had to stop there! My fingers struggled to even type those words!!

The article does go on to offer a plausible defense of why Jesus was probably not crazy, but there was no Scripture. There was nothing there from the Word of God to declare that Jesus is who He says He is. So, I made myself stop and think about why I have always believed what I do, and my heart went immediately to Hebrews 1:1-4...

"Long ago God spoke to our ancestors by the prophets at different times and in different ways. In these last days, He has spoken to us by His Son. God has appointed Him heir of all things and made the universe through him. The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact expression of his nature, sustaining all things by his powerful word. After making purification for sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high. So He became superior to the angels, just as the name he inherited is more excellent than theirs."

This passage takes my breath! The words "exact expression" come from the Greek charaktēr, which means the "perfect imprint and representation or full embodiment." Or to use a word/phrase that has become special to me...

JESUS IS THE SUBSTANCE OF GOD!

Wow...that is so much easier to type! But in order for this to be more than a simple agreement or a feel-good phrase, let's use commentary by Don Stewart from the Blue Letter Bible to help us understand what that means...

Jesus is not a created being. He has always been fully divine and equal to God.
Adding a human nature to Himself so He could come to earth and complete God's plan for redemption did not remove or diminish His absolute essence or substance.
The doctrine of the Simplicity of God states that God is One and needs nothing or no one else to exist. "There were no forces that came together to form God."

Ok...I know, I know. That's a little heady! I don't know about you. I struggle to grasp the complete meaning of these points, yet I fully agree with them and know them in my soul to be true. So, to help us understand a little more — and to try to smoothly land this plane — let's use a bit more plain-spoken commentary from Bibleref.com...

Colossians 2 shows us again that Jesus is the fullness of God and the fulfillment of all that is to come. He reigns supreme over human-based thinking and man-made religions. "In this passage, Paul warns Christians not to be taken in by deceptive arguments. These claims are attractive, but are merely tricks: they sound true, but they are not. [They are not] the real source of spiritual growth. Christ accomplished everything we need to be justified before God. As a result, there is no reason for believers to pursue these false, shallow ''shadows.'' We have the real substance: Jesus, so we should follow Him."

It's true...neither Paul nor Bibleref is speaking of these psychiatric jabronis (Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's word for knuckle head or loser...IOW, my favorite insult!). However, the points remain the same...

God is complete.

Jesus is God.

He walked the earth.

He was just as much man as He is God.

Those who don't know Him as their Savior see Him as a fool.

This is why we have to know more about Him, though. If we are not grounded in truth, one grossly incorrect article, reel, or social media post can pop up in the middle of an innocent scroll or search and plant evil seeds, leading our minds down a dark path filled with doubt.

Satan hates Jesus, and at the same time understands our affinity for diagnoses. So why not start with using a supposed mental illness, even one that we could possibly relate to, to make us doubt His deity? This is how people begin their path to deconstruction.

"What you think about [Jesus] is the most important thing about you." Tozer