"Not God"?-- Not a Chance

According to AA enthusiasts, Bill W.  advanced a program in which man would accept that he is "Not God".

Ernest Kurtz wrote a history of AA called "Not God".

Other sources suggest that Bill W. actually wanted to play god.

Henriette Sieberling, the lady who introduced AA #2 (Dr. Bob) to Bill W., wrote in a letter to Clarence Snyder:

"It looked for a while as if Bill Wilson would like to crowd God out. . "

About AA members, Henriette then claimed:

"who have  been denied so much of the real "bread" - & given the "stone" of Bill Wilson's designs."

Bill W. did not frequent his own fellowships, apparently:

"We will be closely knit -  even with his taking the money & trying to take  the book. I am sure he will need our pity  & compassion because he has put himself  apart from the real fellowship - "

"Apart from the fellowship". . . I guess it did not "work" for him.

Bill W. wanted to play God, in fact:

He imagines himself all kinds of things.
His hand "writes" dictation from a Catholic
priest, whose name I forget, from the 1600 period
who was in Barcelona Spain - again, he told
Horace Crystal**, he was completing the work
that Christ didn't finish, & according to Horace
he said he was a reincarnation of Christ.
Perhaps he got mixed in whose reincarnation
he was. It looks more like the works of the
devil but I could be wrong. I don't know what
is going on in the poor deluded fellow's mind.

The automatic writing nonsense that Bill W. engaged, I was taught to do the same folly. It's just crazy. The stupid things that people do when they listen to an "inner voice" if they are not identified with the Way, the Truth, and the Life.

"He was completing the work that Christ didn't finish."

In one phrase, it is crystal clear: Bill W. was an enemy of the Cross:

"(For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:" (Philippians 3: 18)

Jesus Christ Himself declared "It is Finished" (John 19: 30)

Paul the apostle rebuked the Galatians for going back to the law:

"1O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you? 2This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? 3Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh? 4Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if it be yet in vain. 5He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, doeth he it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?" (Galatians 3: 1-5)

Every believer in the Body of Christ is called to grow in grace and knowledge of the Lord (2 Peter 3: 18). The law, rules, including the Twelve Steps, are "weak and beggarly elements". The law was a schoolmaster" which brings men and women to Christ, but then the law is no longer needed.

The Spirit of God lives in every man who believes on Jesus, and this Spirit guides man by peace. No sponsors, no "Twelve Steps", nothing else.

AA is a cult from the pit of hell, put together by a man who claimed to be a child of light, when he was indeed an "angel of light":

"And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light." (2 Chronicles 11: 14)

Instead of proclaiming the grace of God which is readily available to whosoever believes on Jesus Christ, Bill W. brought people back to rules and regulations, and thus to bondage, and in the process wanted to make himself a god:

"As many as desire to make a fair shew in the flesh, they constrain you to be circumcised; only lest they should suffer persecution for the cross of Christ. 13For neither they themselves who are circumcised keep the law; but desire to have you circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh." (Galatians 6: 12-13)

Bill W. was one of many "Judaizers" trying to bring back the law into the lives of men and women, and thus give himself something to brag about.

"Not God"? Not a chance!