AA: A Progressive Fraud

The Progressive Movement, from the early Twentieth Century to the present day, has rested on the false assumption that human nature is perfectible, that man can improve his situation through his own efforts, along with a lot of help from the state and human force.

Nothing could be further from the Truth.

Man is thoroughly bankrupt.

Adam ate from the Forbidden Tree, and all humanity fell with Adam:

"Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come." (Romans 5: 14)

Dead men need life, and a dead man cannot produce this life on his own. He needs to receive this life, and this life we can receive through Christ:

"The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly." (John 10: 10)

To this day, man is rejected God's gifts of righteousness and grace through His Son, going the way of Cain (Jude 11) instead of the way of Life and Truth (John 14: 6).

Many of us exclaimed, "What an order! I can't go through with it." Do not be discouraged. No one among us has been able to maintain anything like perfect adherence to these principles. We are not saints. The point is, that we are willing to grow along spiritual lines. The principles we have set down are guides to progress. We claim spiritual progress rather than spiritual perfection. (AA, pg 60)

The Bible teaches us that Jesus finished the work (John 17: 3-4; 19: 30), and in Christ we are perfected forever (Hebrews 10: 14)

God will have no flesh glory in His presence (1 Corinthians 1: 29)

Our flesh is sold out completely to sin (Romans 7: 14)

There is no progress in our efforts, for everything we do in the flesh is tainted with sin.

We need a new life, and we need to receive the grace of God, and only through His grace do we reign in life (Romans 5: 17) and find any kind of strength to life holy, godly lives (Titus 2: 11-12)

Forget Alcoholics Anonymous, a progressive fraud instituted by two Vermonters, suffused with humanistic doctrine which can do nothing to bring a man out of his spiritual death into a life of righteousness.