Lindsay Lohen
All over the internet and television.
The thing I notice is that nobody is really discussing the real nature of addiction. The panel of
experts on CNN (and everybody else) are calling addiction a "disease". Daniel Baldwin was on the panel. A man that has been to rehab 9 times and never has been able to stay clean is now the new media expert on addiction. A man who calls himself a "born again" Christian but according to the FaFafarrazi website is living in sin with the women he impregnated during rehab. One other thing should be mentioned. There is a certain kind of drug addict and drunk who doesnt want to quit using drugs or getting drunk. In fact, most are like that in the beginning and some never grow out of it. No amount of treatment anywhere will help them. They like getting high and like getting loaded.
Now hear this:
ADDICTION IS NOT A DISEASE!!
Nothing could be farther from the truth. Addiction is not a "disease". Never has been and never will be. Nothing in the Bible indicates that it is.
When will we ever have some honest talk about addiction in this society?
We have a society that doesnt understand addiction and experts that dont know what to do it about.
posted by Anon at 7:09 PM
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alcoholism is a disease. it's a disease of the brain. it's dis-ease. it's not comfortable to not have a drink when you are an alcoholic. sobriety is hard work. aa is the only resource for sympathy/empathy that most have discovered. i am a christian, fear the Lord, but struggle daily with this disease. please don't be rude to the people who are trying to seek help. it's shameful, embarassing and ruins lives and relationships. it's horrible.
7:53 PM
Here is a good example of the confusion about alcoholism. IT IS NOT A DISEASE AND NEVER HAS BEEN.
If you look in the Holy Scripture you will see that Drunkards will not inherit the kingdom of God. Not very fair of God is it if they have a disease. Of course, they dont, but unfortunately not everyone can see.
I recommend William Playfairs book,
"The Useful Lie" which debunks this stuff.
10:05 PM
I've written a couple of titles that tackle the "disease" issue--God and Alcoholism and Cured. Not many "scholars" or "scientists" talk about free will, and few ever talk about the power of God to deal with the malady of alcoholism. Is it a disease? I sure don't know. Playfair and others say it is sin; and the Bible makes it clear that "excessive drinking" and "drunkenness" are sins. Bobgan and the psychoheresy people throw a fit when someone says early AAs were Christians and dealt with the matter first by relying on the Creator, accepting Christ, and then trying to do God's will, grow in fellowship, and help others. But it all gets down to "don't." Try abstinence and resisting temptation first. That's where the early AAs began. But they found that probably no human power could help them. They had tried all the remedies--many the same as those promulgated today. I like to call alcoholism the problem of the three D's and the R. Drink, Drunk, Disaster, Return. Even there the media and the meetings define alcoholic insanity as doing the same thing over and over and expecting the result to be "different." Nope! The alcoholic does the same thing over and over while KNOWING the result will be the "same." This seems nuts, and it is. Back to the DDDR. The real alcoholic DRINKS. The real alcoholic gets DRUNK. The real alcoholic repeatedly encounters or causes DISASTER. Knowing those things, he "sins" or he yields to "temptation" or his deranged thinking, comrades, slippery places, and the devil all tell him it's OK. Even though he KNOWS he will encounter disaster if he repeats. So what does he do? He RETURNS to the same drink, drunk, disaster over and over. The Bible speaks of the dog returning to his vomit, and the sow returning to the mire. Whatever the reason and the cause, I can't dismiss either the insane thinking or the wiles of the devil. The two forces may work hand in hand. For a believer, they seem to. Yet God hath not given us the spirit of fear, but of power and of love and over a sound mind. It's our job to appropriate them and stand on them. Sure, there may be a behavioral disorder, a genetic predisposition, a nutritional imbalance and deficiency, a good and bad brain inclination out of whack, or a "devil-may-care" proclivity to risk. Maybe all of them together. But I'd prefer to put on the whole armour of God and stand against the whole bunch of these factors. By the way, some medical people do think we have "something like" an allergy and an obsession. All the more a potent combination of tools in the hands of the Adversary. Early AAs had a simple solution based on the book of James--particularly James 4:7. Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. That challenge and promise works for Christians willing to "stand," to "submit," to "resist," and to walk in fellowship with the Father. Lacking perfection, and awaiting the return of our Lord and Saviour, I nonetheless have found a new and abundant life and watched the devil take a hike. God Bless, Dick B.
8:48 PM
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2:04 AM
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