The Grand Blasphemy: "Higher Power"

Alcoholics Anonymous teaches its adherents to choose their conception of God, as if a "Higher Power" is enough.

Yet the first scripture that comes to mind when I hear such thinking is:

"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." (Genesis 1: 1)

and

"Hast thou an arm like God? or canst thou thunder with a voice like him?" (John 40: 9)

This God spoke to Job, a man in bondage to a false conception of God, believing that his continual sacrifices would allay his fears and appease the Lord, when in truth only righteousness gives us standing before God, and this righteousness we receive by faith in Jesus Christ (2 Corinthians 5: 21)

One of my favorite verses to conflate AA's arrogant notion of "Choose your conception of God" is:

"For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.

"For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts." (Isaiah 55: 8-9)

God cannot be understood by the limited mind of man, but we can only believe on Him and thus receive His testimony based on His Word!

Alcoholics Anonymous meetings rely on portions of scripture in presenting a spiritual program, but like any cult these oblique references merely point out that every cult has an element of truth, but like new wine in old, leaky wineskins, the truth is adulterated and lost when mixed with the meandering thoughts and plans of men.