AA Prescribes Illness of False Identity

Most of us have been unwilling to admit we were real alcoholics. No person likes to think he is bodily and mentally different from his fellows. Therefore, it is not surprising that our drinking careers have been characterized by countless vain attempts to prove we could drink like other people. The idea that somehow, someday he will control and enjoy his drinking is the great obsession of every abnormal drinker. The persistence of this illusion is astonishing. Many pursue it into the gates of insanity or death. (AA, pg 30)

One integral element of the AA scam teaches people to identify with something that they are not, or rather by identifying with something, and then claiming that they are "reborn", they end up merely elevating and inflating their "dead in Adam" flesh.

In Christ, we care called to see ourselves no longer in dead Adam, but alive in Christ:

"7For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.)" (Romans 5: 17)

Because we are alive in Christ, we no longer reckon ourselves in our bodies, in our flesh, in sin:

"Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord." (Romans 6: 11)

When we acknowledge that through Jesus' death and resurrection, we are taken from dead in our trespasses to alive and seated in heavenly places in righteousness (Ephesians 2: 1-6), then we can  boldy say:

"For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace." (Romans 6: 14)

Throughout the Book of Romans, "sin" refers to a position of death and rebellion in Adam, in that we are "dead." Paul is never writing about sin as an action, but rather a status of dead, outside of God, estranged from Him.

When we receive Christ's righteousness (2 Corinthians 5: 21), we have become a new creature (2 Corinthians 5: 17), and thus we have nothing to do with the flesh, the works of which include:

"Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness . . ., drunkenness, revellings, and such like (Galatians 5: 19, 21)

As a child of God in Christ, we are no longer in the flesh, but rather in the Spirit:

"Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. 13For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. 14For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. 15For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father." (Romans 8: 12-15)

One integral element of the AA scam teaches people to identify with something that they are not, or rather by identifying with something, and then claiming that they are "reborn", they end up merely elevating and inflating their "dead in Adam" flesh.

AA is an evil cult, one which teaches people to identify, even cherish their old, human nature, even though the pages of the "Big Book" will claim that the "program works. It really does."

The program does not work, and it cannot work, because the cult teaches people to identify with the very thing that they need to be free from, and for the believer in the Body of Christ, he cannot be a child of God and an alcholic, for that would be trying to walk in the Spirit and in the flesh:

"For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would." (Galatians 5: 17)

Identify with who  you are in Christ, and you will walk in the Freedom of Christ:

"Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage." (Galatians 5: 1)

And as always:

"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)