How Loving is AA's Loving God?

We, in our turn, sought the same escape with all the desperation of drowning men. What seemed at first a flimsy reed, has proved to be the loving and powerful hand of God. A new life has been given us or, if you prefer, "a design for living "that really works. (AA, pg 28)

This is a lie, pure and simple. I would not care all that much, except for the damage which this lying program, masquerading as the truth, can do to people who are sincere and well-meaning, only to be end with a conscience seared with the hot iron of sin, never finding peace and respite, perpetually trying to purge themselves of all sin.

A design for living for a dead man is a design that will resign itself to doing nothing.

We do not need a plan for living, we need LIFE and that more abundantly, and that life is found in Jesus Christ!

"The loving and powerful hand of God" means nothing when God is just some idea that you come with on your own. If I am head-deep in trouble, I cannot think of God in any way based on my own circumstances to break me free.

Paul did not claim to have figured out the Gospel, at all, and he was the most well-read of Pharisees:

"But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man.

"For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ." (Galatians 1: 11-12)

In other words, man cannot conceive of this Gospel, one in which God sends His Son in the form of fallen man to die for our sins, to be raised from the dead, to sit at the right hand of the Father and extend to us His Holy Spirit as a gift of His loving and blessing presence forever in our lives!

This Good News must be believed and received as a matter of truth, just like we breathe whether we want to our not. If we choose not to breathe, we die. If we choose not to believe, we die eternally.

The loving hand of God means nothing without a clear proof this love. The Bible outlines in two ways how God has loved us:

"Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins." (1 John 4: 10)

and then

"Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world." (1 John 4: 17)

Choose life, Choose Him, for God is Love (1 John 4: 16) and forget about Bill W.!