AA is Mind Control

This new insight occurred to me today.

Alcoholics Anonymous is all about mind control, getting people to think and feel a certain way. The Gospel is not about making people think actively a certain way, but simple to change one's mind and believe that God is no longer angry at us, but rather that through the Finished Work of Jesus Christ,

The program starts with indoctrinating people to see that they are alcoholics, that they are born that way, and there is nothing that they can do about it. They are like men who have lost their legs, and they will not grow new ones.

Just rethinking about the statement, without taking it as true or not true in any fashion, just offends me outright.

When someone is drunk, when someone struggles to break free on their own from any addiction, the answer cannot be found in more effort. We do need power, but more importantly, we need life, and that more abundantly, which we cannot create on our own.

As long as we keep thinking that we can generate this life in our own efforts or by working steps, while claiming that all of it is God's power in us, we are destined to keep failing.

The scam with AA, though, is ultimately based on programming people to see themselves as forever sick, that they need to run their lives by someone else, and that every thing they do, every thought they have is tainted and flawed, and therefore someone has to do the thinking for them, whether it be the sponsor, the group conscience, or a life in which people are constantly looking at what they are thinking and believing, trying to stay one step ahead of fear, resentment, dishonesty, or any other defect of character.

In Christ, we rest in the truth that there is no condemnation, and that He is our life. We are not trying to create or conjure up this life on our own. He is our life, and this life is not hard track of hurt and pain, but righteousness, peace, and joy in His Holy Spirit.

One of the greatest scams from the Enemy, and from evil gurus like Bill W. and his AA cohort-clan, has rested on the foolish notion that human beings need a little more help, when they really need life, and that more abundantly (John 10: 10)

Jesus offers this to us every day, and He wants to live and thrive in every circumstance we face, guiding us to face all troubles, and in Him be more than conquerors.

It's not about training our mind, but rather renewing our mind to a greater understanding of Jesus and His New Covenant which He cut for us at the Cross.

Jesus does not tell us only to think about one thing, but rather to allow our minds to be filled with the fullness of God.

But wait, what about this passage?

"Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;" (2 Corinthians 10: 5)

It's all about context, everyone!

The previous verses in that chapter talk about the weapons of our warfare, which are might through God, not through our own efforts, mind you, and bringing down every thought of condemnation!

Anytime a thought of guilt or anger or fear pops up in our minds, our reaction needs to be: the Cross, and Jesus' ongoing ministry on our behalf at the Father's right hand.

He is still working on our behalf, helping us through all our struggles.

We will have bad thoughts, good thoughts, lustful, fleshy thoughts, but we are to reckon ourselves dead to all of that sin, and alive in Christ, alive in His righteousness!

This issue of full and final  payment is so important, because for years I kept thinking that since I felt guilty or frustrated, it meant that I must do something.

The Cross answers every judgment, every condemnation, and even though there is still sin in our flesh, we can rest assured that sin has been condemned in our flesh, because when Jesus died, sin was condemned in His flesh on our behalf (Romans 8: 3)

AA is mind control. It's all about making people think that they have to think a certain way in order to be OK. The damaging frustrations which I endured because of this misunderstanding.

This one verse is a wonderful promise:

"Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee." (Isaiah 26: 3)

Now, I thought that this passage meant that I had to have my mind fixed on one idea -- God.

Can you imagine the torture, the frustration? Even now, I reflect on how debilitated was my understanding of the Scriptures. God, the Lord, is greater than all times, than all troubles. He is my life, yet much of these wonderful revelations were never made plain to me.

Never.

Today, I rejoice in reporting that His peace is not based on what I am thinking, but that I believe, that I know and believe His love for me!

Even when my mind wavers, even when my emotions boil, I never have to wonder if He is on my side or not:

"What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?" (Romans 8: 31)

Then Paul writes:

"He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?" (Romans 8: 32)

Later on, Paul writes:

"Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us." (Romans 8: 37)

Yet as long as I was convinced that His peace in my life was about my mind resting, or staying, or not moving, then I was in great bondage never-ending.

The more that I have grown in grace, the more that I began asking questions, such as why I never believed the simplicity of the Gospel.

And the answer: the AA cult, and the massive abuses and distortions which come from erroneous teaching, plus a prior inability to rightly divide the word of God.

Without the understanding of perfect righteousness accorded to us at the Cross, we will  keep looking at ourselves, trying to fix our thoughts and actions to be pleasing to God, when we are pleasing to God already, because of what Jesus has done for us, and that we are now before God the Father as one of His own Sons:

"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)

AA is mind control. Read the Bible, and see how Jesus holds everything in His hands, including you:

"For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:" (2 Corinthians 5: 14)