{"id":953,"date":"2008-05-21T12:48:41","date_gmt":"2008-05-21T17:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/2008\/05\/21\/aa-and-12-steps-were-not-founded-by-christians.html"},"modified":"2015-12-29T08:13:52","modified_gmt":"2015-12-29T14:13:52","slug":"aa-and-12-steps-were-not-founded-by-christians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/aa-and-12-steps-were-not-founded-by-christians.html","title":{"rendered":"AA and 12 steps were not founded by Christians"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Churches today are filled with 12 step programs based on a model that has no foundation in Christianity. I also wrote <a title=\"Dominion theology and psychology\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/comments\/The%20woman%20on%20the%20beast%20in%20end%20time%20prophecy%20has%20dominion%20theology.htm\">my own article<\/a> that deals with the issue.<\/div>\n<div><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20121213065757\/http:\/\/www.worldviewweekend.com:80\/worldview-times\/article.php?articleid=3537\">Alcoholics Anonymous Cofounders Were Not Christians &#8211; CWN<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n<div>\n<blockquote><p>It is not just fear that keeps us bound to this all-gods religion. The 12 Step experience becomes an idol\u2014long-term involvement almost always results in a transference of faith. Bluntly stated, when it comes to sobriety, many Christians end up with more faith in the power of the 12 Step program than in Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n<p>This idol worship is by no means limited to those in AA, but applies to many in \u201cChristian 12 Step\u201d groups.<\/p>\n<p>This transference of faith is subtle, gradual, and frequently inevitable. The result is that sobriety without the 12 Step program will not even be considered. Biblical wisdom, given by concerned and caring believers, is rejected.<\/p>\n<p>For many years Christians have justified their involvement by pointing to numerous books that claim AA and the 12 Steps are Christian in origin. If this is true, then obviously AA\u2019s cofounders had to have been Christians. Indeed, this belief is also a primary rationalization for remaining in the AA religion.<\/p>\n<p>Did AA cofounders Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith follow Christ?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Churches today are filled with 12 step programs based on a model that has no foundation in Christianity. I also wrote my own article that deals with the issue. Alcoholics Anonymous Cofounders Were Not Christians &#8211; CWN It is not just fear that keeps us bound to this all-gods religion. The 12 Step experience becomes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,5,88,29],"tags":[352,57,58,82,54],"class_list":["post-953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aberrantheretical-teaching","category-church-movements","category-discernment","category-psychology-in-the-church","tag-discernment","tag-heresy","tag-movements","tag-psychology","tag-trends"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pawsE-fn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}