Liver disease doesnвЂ™t yield either to group therapy or newly published names. Nor is alcoholism a problem to be left to group therapy. It is not a problem to be left in the hands of some virtually self-appointed, unaccountable publishing committee in New York or teams of writers who may not have seen or helped a 'wet drunk' in years. The problem in letting the ubiquitous revisionists get away with such desecrations of our pioneer program is that they are dealing with alcoholism. fellowship a 'self-help' mutual hand-holding society with love and good works as its basic tenets. Stop writing about early AA.вЂ™s spiritual roots and history. Add some new names for God, even though they describe some incomprehensible and non-existent idol. No 'cure.' No 'ex-alcoholics.' Just create a diversion, and abrogate mention of the Bible. The safest way for those who promulgate the 'there-must-have-been-a-mistake-in-the-language used' propaganda was simply to eliminate the language from AA. There was a safer and less controversial course for them to take. Are they saying the Bible is misleading and mistaken? I donвЂ™t think so. publishing game of today have taken to promoting the idea that those words - cure, healing, and deliverance - were misleading and, by their interpretations, were mistaken. It says that Jesus Christ made that power available to all who believe. It says that God can cure, heal, and deliver. You Need the PioneersвЂ™ Belief That God Can Heal You

And it produced a new life and new happiness for me. That understanding of God produced a 75% to 93% early AA. And I certainly wouldnвЂ™t expect guidance from a lightbulb, healing by a doorknob, deliverance in the seat of a chair, or forgiveness through the accomplishments of a radiator.ДЄA.вЂ™s Big Book has always said, and still says, there is One with all power and that the One is God! The founders used all kinds of descriptions and titles for God - Father, Creator, Maker, Almighty God - but they all came from the Good Book.

I wouldnвЂ™t rely on a 'Something.' I wouldnвЂ™t trust a 'Somebody.' I wouldnвЂ™t seek help from 'a higher power.'. Sam Shoemaker, our 'cofounder' described them). I myself will never adopt an understanding that the power to overcome 'diseaseвЂ™ or sin or 'sickness' or whatever alcoholism is, can be received from, or operated with, 'something' or 'somebody' or a 'power greater than myselfвЂ™ or a 'higher power' or a 'group' or a light bulb, chair, bulldozer, goddess, doorknob, radiator or any of the other 'absurd names for God' (as Rev.

You (the 'Party of the First Part') Need Pioneer Understanding of God Chapter 3: The Good News: What God Can Do about Alcoholism

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