Not worth the battle... Fight the battle on some other ground rather than at home... Keep the home front safe.. a retreat for your soul and the Lord to reside..
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It is actually IS true. Addiction is not something that ever truly goes away. Yes, it does become easier with time, but that addiction is still there. I've known alcoholics who went for years without drinking, got sick, and took some NyQuil for their cold. That small amount of alcohol in that medicine hooked them again. From a scientific standpoint, addiction is generally genetic (not necessarily specific addiction, but the tendency to addiction) and is not something that just goes away.
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speak for yourself. i know from personal experience and other testimonies that there is freedom from addictions. the temptations are what never go away.It is actually IS true. Addiction is not something that ever truly goes away. Yes, it does become easier with time, but that addiction is still there. I've known alcoholics who went for years without drinking, got sick, and took some NyQuil for their cold. That small amount of alcohol in that medicine hooked them again. From a scientific standpoint, addiction is generally genetic (not necessarily specific addiction, but the tendency to addiction) and is not something that just goes away.
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It is actually IS true. Addiction is not something that ever truly goes away. Yes, it does become easier with time, but that addiction is still there. I've known alcoholics who went for years without drinking, got sick, and took some NyQuil for their cold. That small amount of alcohol in that medicine hooked them again. From a scientific standpoint, addiction is generally genetic (not necessarily specific addiction, but the tendency to addiction) and is not something that just goes away.
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Yes, God can and does deliver us... but the consequences of our past is still there. Even if it becomes easy, the addiction never goes away, which is why like Stravinsk said, you keep your self away from that culture so not even the temptation arises. Alcoholics don't go to a party and think "I am delivered from my addiction now, so I will have a few drinks and be ok!" The addiction creeps back to the surface and controls them again.
I am not saying people can not and do not receive deliverance from addiction. I am saying it is silly to pretend the addiction truly goes away.
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Then you doubt the power of God.
It's not doubting God, it's simple science that's been proven time and time again. If it were so true, why would things like AA advocate not spending time at alcohol-soaked parties and never drinking again, even socially?
AA also will allow you to have a pillow as a higher power. God is bigger than your addiction.
AA is proven to have some sucsess with alcoholics; religion, not so much.
Personally, I think it's a little irresponsible to suggest or insinuate that if people just pray hard enough they'll be cured of their addictions; or that if one is struggling with an addiction, they're just not religious enough. Considering I am assuming you are not Dr. Drew, I have to assume that you are providing us with only anecdotal evidence and limited personal experience (one does not speak for all), and no real studies or statistical evidence to show prayer (or similar) cures addiction.
It wasn't cool when Hume told Tiger he should just become a Christian to cure his sex addiction, and it's just as uncool to advocate religion as therapy on a public forum.
AA is proven to have some sucsess with alcoholics; religion, not so much.
Personally, I think it's a little irresponsible to suggest or insinuate that if people just pray hard enough they'll be cured of their addictions; or that if one is struggling with an addiction, they're just not religious enough. Considering I am assuming you are not Dr. Drew, I have to assume that you are providing us with only anecdotal evidence and limited personal experience (one does not speak for all), and no real studies or statistical evidence to show prayer (or similar) cures addiction.
It wasn't cool when Hume told Tiger he should just become a Christian to cure his sex addiction, and it's just as uncool to advocate religion as therapy on a public forum.
AA also will allow you to have a pillow as a higher power.
That's why the 13th step is nyQuil.But the praying thing sounds so much easier than having to do all 12 steps, you're killing me here.
What it really boils down to is many Christians have been duped into believing that all they have to do is pray, sit back, be lazy, do nothing, and everything will be magically taken care of.
God gave the Isrealites the promised land, but he made them work for it and earn it. He will give us the strength to overcome our sins, but God has never totally just removed sin from the world.
So What I am saying is simply that God will give us the strength and power to overcome addiction. We still have to do our part as well, such as staying away from the people/places that have the biggest influence on making the wrong choices.
Sorry, but God is not a vending machine, where you simply put a prayer in and get whatever you want back out.
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