PRAY ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS IS EXPOSED

A.A. has diverted many from Christ. I am asking for your prayers. Please pray I finish writing His book about the unholy origin of both Alcoholics Anonymous and the 12 Steps. May it result in Salvation and sanctification for many. The Lord has told me through His Word to keep seeking Him about this. Y0ur prayers are welcomed, appreciated, and needed.

I am in de-blogification. Here are links to some important articles, meaning important to those who really want to know the truth about A.A. and the 12 Steps.

ARTICLES:

Seances, spirits, and 12 Steps- The cofounder of A.A. didn’t get the 12 Steps from Jesus Christ, but from a… http://mywordlikefire.wordpress.com/2008/09/24/seances-spirits-and-12-steps/

MISSIONARIES INTO DARKEST ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS- Why don’t we see it like foreign missionaries would see it? Like the Apostle Paul would see it… http://www.worldviewtimes.com/article.php/articleid-3574/Brannon-Howse/John-Lanagan

Church can do better than A.A.- Defining A.A. as religion… http://mywordlikefire.wordpress.com/2009/03/05/church-can-do-better-than-aa/

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS COFOUNDERS WERE NOT CHRISTIANS- Isn’t it about time we dealt with the unpleasant truth? http://www.worldviewtimes.com/article.php/articleid-3537/Brannon-Howse/John-Lanagan

Hard truth about Alcoholics Anonymous- A.A. cofounder Bill Wilson’s strange understanding of his “god” and Dr. Bob Smith’s anti-Biblical activities… http://mywordlikefire.wordpress.com/2009/06/16/hard-truth-about-alcoholics-anonymous-2/

Why do you believe A.A. and the 12 Steps were Christian? Don’t accept the “Christian roots” claims without researching for yourself… http://mywordlikefire.wordpress.com/2009/06/18/why-do-you-believe-a-a-and-12-steps-are-christian/

Why the A.A. symbol is not the cross- Another sign of the demonic influence that infested A.A. cofounder Bill Wilson…  http://mywordlikefire.wordpress.com/2009/06/19/why-the-a-a-symbol-is-not-the-cross/

Christ worshiped alongside false gods- Christians and the new age/A.A. connection… http://mywordlikefire.wordpress.com/2009/06/13/christ-worshiped-alongside-false-gods/

C.S. LEWIS WARNS AGAINST A.A. COFOUNDER’S SPIRITUALISM- The anti-biblical activity of the man who wrote the 12 Steps upset C.S. Lewis…shouldn’t we take heed as well? http://www.raptureready.com/soap/lanagan3.html

A.A. “higher power” prayed to at inaugural event- Unrepentant homosexual Gene Robinson, an Episcopal Bishop, gave an intentionally Christ-less invocation at one of the Presidential inaugural events. A recovering alcoholic, Robinson prayed instead to A.A.’s higher power, the “god of our many understandings.” http://www.worldviewtimes.com/article.php/articleid-4489/Brannon-Howse/John-Lanagan

Pastor John MacArthur rejects the 12 Steps- John MacArthur has the odd idea that “recovery” is not sanctification.  http://mywordlikefire.wordpress.com/2009/02/22/pastor-john-macarthur-vs-12-steps/

The Shack “god” is the A.A. “higher power”

Bluntly stated, the god of The Shack is essentially the A.A. higher power with a Christian veneer.

It is all blending together. The universalism of Alcoholics Anonymous goes hand in hand with the universalism found (but denied) in The Shack.

“The author of The Shack has essentially applied A.A.’s higher power concept to the God of the Bible. As if taking scissors to the Word of God, William Young has cut out and removed His righteousness, judgment, wrath, holiness, and much else. He has piled on grace, love, forgiveness, and kindness-and who, after all, does not want to hear about these things? The author has remade the Biblical God the Father into a goddess seemingly out of one of the ancient pagan religions. This, in a time of spiritual and cultural breakdown, attracts the world.”

Rest of article. If this scares you, I’m here for you:http://www.worldviewtimes.com/article.php/articleid-3870/Brannon-Howse/John-Lanagan

Todd Friel totally exposes the universalism of The Shack, using the author’s own words as evidence: http://5ptsalt.com/2009/06/25/author-of-the-shack-is-a-universalist-denies-penal-substitutionary-atonement/

WHY ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS IS RELIGION

Christians in AA may not see it this way, but they are in agreement with a belief system that lifts up strange gods. (Amos 3:3) In Alcoholics Anonymous all gods are called the “higher power,” thus relegating Christ our King to commonality, as if He were simply one nameless deity among many.

“I am the Lord, that is My name. I will not give my glory to another, nor my praise to idols.” (Isaiah 42:8)

In 1941, Jack Alexander of the Saturday Evening Post wrote the article that provided AA its first national publicity. Describing AA’s “higher power,” Alexander noted the alcoholic “may choose to think of his Inner Self, the miracle of growth, a tree, man’s wonderment at the physical universe, the structure of the atom, or mere mathematical infinity. Whatever form is visualized, the neophyte is taught that he must rely on it and, in his own way, to pray to the Power for strength.”[2]

Nearly seventy years later this salad bar approach—make your own god—has seemingly become a cultural norm. “Spiritual” is in. “Religion” is out. Many Americans now refer to their god as “higher power.” Bill O’Reilly uses the term frequently on his show. This is simply to say that AA’s 12 Step program has made its mark (?) on the culture.

Bondage to alcohol is miserable. Entire families can be ruined. Yet there has been a solution all along, not that you ever hear this in AA:

“Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God. Such were some of you; but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.” (1 Corinthians 6: 9-11)

Many have been delivered through the power and love of Jesus Christ. Still, like the world, too many Christians believe only AA can help an alcoholic. Everything has been turned upside down: Alcoholics Anonymous can supposedly help everyone, but experiencing Jesus in church without the 12 Steps can supposedly help no one. What, really, is a pastor saying when he tells an alcoholic he needs to join a 12 Step program? When all is said and done, AA attendance serves to subtly condition Christians to worship with non-believers; perhaps this has been the point all along.

It is written: “Do not be bound together with unbelievers; for what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship has light with darkness? Or what harmony has Christ with Belial, or what has a believer in common with an unbeliever? Or what agreement has the temple of God with idols? …Therefore, come out from their midst and be separate, says the Lord.” (2 Corinthians 6: 14-17)

But we are not separating. Christians participate in AA’s Christless corporate prayers every day all across the country. For decades AA has been referred to as a “spiritual program,” a harmless adjunct to one’s own religious belief system. Because of this misrepresentation, most Christians in AA are sincerely unaware they have joined a pantheistic religion.

On November 15, 1999, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that AA is indeed religious in nature. An AA meeting is essentially a devotional service. The “higher power” receives worship; confession is heard; testimony is given; the group invokes the Serenity Prayer and the Lord’s Prayer. The 12^th Step instructs AA members to go forth and Spread the Word.

For entire article: http://www.christianworldviewnetwork.com/article.php/3477/Brannon-Howse/John-Lanagan

A.A. cofounder gets 12 Steps from spooky place:http://mywordlikefire.wordpress.com/2008/09/24/seances-spirits-and-12-steps/

The Shack sliced, diced by Todd Friel

PLEASE! Send this to your friends who have read The Shack. It is a short video by Todd Friel where author Paul Young’s own words demonstrate he is not a Biblical Christian. Come on, be brave. Sola Scriptura…if Young does not believe the Father appointed Jesus to die for our sins, and that Jesus willingly did so as our substitute, why are we even reading this blasphemous book? Can you say, Substitutionary Atonement? Watch, and be astounded. LINK: http://5ptsalt.com/2009/06/25/author-of-the-shack-is-a-universalist-denies-penal-substitutionary-atonement/

Thanks Carla! http://morebooksandthings.blogspot.com

Mainstream evangelicalism sliding into apostasy

“Men and women, you hear me; and you hear me good. The time has come in the American Christian Church for division, and not unity; we need a reformation every bit the same as when Luther stood hammer in hand. Financial concerns critical as they now are, I’m unsure how much longer we have here at Apprising Ministries, so I’ll simply say that someone must arise and declare that there is just no way to harmonize geniune Bible-believing and Spirit-led Christianity with the egregiously ecumenical postliberal cult of the Emergent Church, now morphing into the matrix of Emergence. You need to realize that it is, right now, completely swallowing up centered on the self, and semi-pelagian (at best), mainstream evangellyfish.” For Rest of Ken Silva’s article: http://apprising.org/2009/06/mainstream-evangelicalism-now-on-the-rapid-slide-to-apostasy/

Pulitzer prize winner’s Alcoholics Anonymous book

“Almost to the end, [Alcoholics Anonymous cofounder Bill Wilson] engaged in serious and prolonged experiments with spiritualism, hallucinatory drugs such as LSD and megavitamin doses of niacin.” (Bold mine)

-From ‘Getting Better: Inside Alcoholics Anonymous,’ by Nan Robertson, pg.124

Robertson notes Wilson “felt that no one should have to believe in any particular religious faith or dogma; that each member was entitled to a personal interpretation of the words ‘God as we understand Him,’ including the concept of the A.A. group as a ‘Higher Power.’” (pg. 124)

Nan Robertson is a Pulitzer prize winning journalist and Alcoholics Anonymous member.

12 Step “author” channels spirits

A.A. cofounder Bill Wilson “would lie on the couch in the living room, semi-withdrawn, but not in a trance, and ‘receive messages, sometimes a word at a time, sometimes a letter at a time. Anne B., neighbor and ’spook’ circle regular, would write the material on a pad. [Wife Lois] describes one of the more dramatic of these sessions:

‘Bill would lie on the couch. He would ‘get’ these things. He kept doing it every week or so. Each time, certain people would ‘come in.’ Sometimes, it would be new ones, and they’d carry on some story. There would be long sentences; word by word would come through. This time, instead of word by word, it was letter by letter.’” (Bold mine)

From PASS IT ON, pg. 278-79, A.A. cofounder Bill Wilson’s official A.A. biography

Why A.A.’s pagan symbol is not the cross

Where did the A.A. symbol come from?  Why did A.A. cofounder Bill Wilson choose the triangle within the circle?

In ‘Alcoholics Anonymous Comes Of Age,’ he writes, “That we have chosen this symbol is perhaps no mere accident. The priests and seers of antiquity regarded the circle enclosing the triangle as a means of warding off spirits of evil, and AA’s circle of Recovery, Unity, and Service has certainly meant all that to us and much more.”

(Alcoholics Anonymous Comes Of Age, pg.139, Bold mine)

RELATED ARTICLES

A.A. history they have never told you: http://mywordlikefire.wordpress.com/2009/03/27/hard-truth-about-alcoholics-anonymous/

A.A.’s cofounders were not Christians: http://www.worldviewtimes.com/article.php/articleid-3537/Brannon-Howse/John-Lanagan

Why do you believe A.A and 12 Steps are Christian?

Why do so many believe AA and the 12 Steps are Christian in origin? This false assumption can be attributed in large part to Dick B., author of ‘The Akron Genesis of Alcoholics Anonymous,’ and numerous books and articles on AA’s alleged Christian beginnings. Unfortunately, the author heavily emphasizes so called Biblical influences while downplaying or ignoring the many anti-Christian factors that were part and parcel of AA’s origin.

The Bible had a generic  role in the creation of AA and the 12 Steps. But so did the New Thought heresy of Emmet Fox. So did Carl Jung, William James, and Emmanuel Swedenborg, all men who rejected Christ the Savior.

So did the spiritualism of AA’s cofounders, Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith. The Lord tells us, “There shall not be found among you…one who practices witchcraft, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead. For whoever does these things is detestable to the Lord…” (Deuteronomy 18:10)

Detestable to the Lord-these are strong words from a holy God. Author Matthew J. Raphael notes that “it might be said for the cofounders, at least, AA was entangled in spiritualism from the very beginning.”[4] AA was founded on June 10, 1935. According to Bill Wilson’s official AA biography, the AA cofounders were engaging in seances and other occurrences that very summer.[5]

In his biography, Wilson documents one of his many occultic adventures: “The ouija board began moving in earnest. What followed was the fairly usual experience-it was a strange melange of Aristotle, St. Francis, diverse archangels with odd names, deceased friends-some in purgatory and others doing nicely, thank you! There were malign and mischievious ones of all descriptions…”[6]

The Bible warns, “Do not turn to mediums or spiritists; do not seek them out to be defiled by them. I am the Lord your God.” (Leviticus 19:31)

But Wilson did seek out these detestable things. Therefore, according to the Word of God, Wilson suffered defilement. From 1935 until, at least, the early 1950s, he was in contact with spirits. The Steps were written in 1938. Wilson communicated with demons posing as the dead,[7] served as a medium through whom a demonic message was delivered,[8] and acknowledged that a spirit helped him write AA’s beloved book, ‘Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions.’[9]

The Lord states, “As for the person who turns to mediums and spiritists, I will set my face against that person…” (Leviticus 20:6) According to the Word of God, it is simply not possible the 12 Steps are Christian in origin. The Lord promises to “set my face against that person” who is “defiled” by these practices and who is therefore “detestable” to our holy God.

T.A. McMahon sums it up very well: “AA’s official biography indicates Bill Wilson received the details of the 12 Steps through spirit dictation. Does anyone see a simple, idolatrous problem here? But what about evangelicals just using the methodology the familiar spirit gave to Bill Wilson? Simple again: God condemns the source, and the approach is contrary to the way He wants to transform our lives. Furthermore, why turn to such a spiritually toxic system? Where are the evangelical pastors’ heads in this?”[10]

ENTIRE ARTICLE: http://www.worldviewtimes.com/article.php/articleid-3477/Brannon-Howse/John-Lanagan

Yes, correct, another Archives Classic

Go ahead and get mad at Ken Silva, he’s used to it

Just this morning I told myself I was going to leave my blog alone and battle with my (far from finished) book about Alcoholics Anonymous. Then I read the following piece by Ken Silva. I thank Christ our King for Pastor Silva’s boldness and his desire to speak Truth.

When I see what is happening in the world I often think of the clenched rainbow fist on Pastor Silva’s site, and the accompanying words: DOWN WITH SOLA SCRIPTURA!

Want to make a difference? Pray for Pastor Silva. Want to make a difference? Obey the Word. Speak the Truth in love–but speak the Truth. “For I did not shrink from declaring to you the whole purpose of God.” (Acts 20:27)

Pastor Silva’s article: http://apprising.org/2009/06/because-i-love-jay-bakker-and-glbtq-people/