I am truly sorry you feel that way because the God I sever set me free from drugs, and booze, I am not longer a drug addict, I am not an alcoholic and those who are gay who comes to the saving power of the Lord Jesus Christ are no longer gay.
I am no longer a victim or bound to my past. If I accepted your point of View that means God of the Bible is a liar. Whom the Son has set free is free indeed. Jesus said in Luke chapter For HE came to set the captive free what you have is not freedom but torment.
Most who do not have freedom from drugs and booze and sexual addiction do remain because they love it. And when God is ready to set them free and HE does they choose to return to it like a dog to his vomit. Jesus showed us how to be free at a wedding he went and did not engage in the things others may have done because HE had self-control and his family was present. He would not dishonor them. Jesus cures the addict the one in the bible did.
I can accept it from your point of view however perhaps you had some faith in a God that performed miracles to begin with. Most people don't and didn't Paul write about his ongoing struggle with the flesh? Do you think you know what his thorn was. If your cured from alcoholism the disease, not the habit, are you free to drink like nothing ever happened?
Have you ever worked or lived in an addiction treatment center that didn't have a 12 step program? I think the most common mistake made was to take the lord out of the plan originally started by the oxford group about 100 years ago. AA was founded by agnostics that were hesitant to accept the God and Lord of the bible so they toned down the rhetoric. However the first 3 steps still lead directly to God. I threw that higher power/God of our understand trash out. And stand firm that Jesus is the rock.
The rest of the steps are work for those of us that weren't suddenly struck healthy and sane. I've read plenty more than I showed you however, I trade them at used book stores. For more books. I kept the ones I have in order to start a Christian 12 step program not directly affiliated with the rest. I have no interest in selling books or making a profit The whole plan is; Get the lost to surrender, Introduce them to the Lord, Help them to see themselves and eventually get them to help others.
And yes people love what they think is fun until it nearly destroys them. That's when they seek help usually The death toll is staggering. Conversions like you describe, on a permanent, basis is rarer than speaking in tongues. I know that it happens, but not to most. Most people don't even know how to pray from the heart. They recite pre- written form prayers often in vain repetition like nursery rhymes. I've even known Lutherans that didn't believe it the power of prayer.
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